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Jerusalem church official: Gaza situation ‘extremely catastrophic’

January 23, 2024
By Barb Fraze
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

The situation in the Gaza Strip is “extremely catastrophic,” and people are dying not only from violence but from preventable illnesses, said the CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Small Christian Communities, prominent in Asia, Latin America, seen as model for whole church

October 29, 2023
By Barb Fraze
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News

unlike Bible study or even Renew groups, these communities have members who function somewhat as a family, who consider the meeting a sacred space to unburden themselves, share problems and help other members.

Pakistani women still feel effects of 2022 floods, says CRS staffer

September 9, 2023
By Barb Fraze
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

More than a year after floods submerged one-third of Pakistan, “women in particular are (still) being impacted,” said the head of programming for Catholic Relief Services in the country.

Under surveillance, government pressure, China needs prayers, observers say

May 27, 2023
By Barb Fraze
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

One U.S. priest familiar with the situation in China said “with the surveillance, with the controls, with the clamps being put on people,” it reminds him of the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.

Despite papal apology, some Native Americans find it hard to forgive

July 29, 2022
By Barb Fraze
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

When Pope Francis apologized to Canadian Indigenous for the ways in which many members of the church and of religious communities cooperated in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation at residential schools, Native Americans, like many Canadian Indigenous, said forgiveness was hard — despite their Catholic faith.

German bishop responds to letter criticizing Synodal Path

April 19, 2022
By Barb Fraze
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News

The head of the German bishops’ conference responded to an open letter from more than 70 bishops from four continents and expressed surprise at some of what they said — and did not say.

Report estimates 330,000 children abused in French church since 1950s

October 5, 2021
By Barb Fraze
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News

An independent report on sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church estimates 330,000 children have been abused since the 1950s. Most of the victims were pre-adolescent boys of all social backgrounds, and more than a third of the assaults were committed by laypeople.

Catholic Relief Services marks 75 years of restoring people’s dignity

December 7, 2018
By Barb Fraze
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

As Catholic Relief Services staffers and supporters spent an evening marking 75 years of service in the world, one word recurred: dignity.

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