Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
This coming Nov. 20 will mark “Red Wednesday,” a commemoration held annually by Aid to the Church in Need to highlight the fact that today one in seven Christians face extreme hostility, violence and repression because of their faith in Christ. In some countries, the observance is being extended throughout the week and is called a “Red Week.”
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Filed Under: News, Saints, World News
Derry-born Sister Clare Crockett was a promising actress with little interest in religion when she went on a Holy Week retreat in Spain in 2000 that changed her life.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
An Argentine priest who works with the country’s poorest and most vulnerable people is hopeful that Pope Francis will visit the community during a proposed trip to the pontiff’s homeland later this year.
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Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News
A landmark report published April 10 in the United Kingdom said children had been “let down” by a lack of research on the use of puberty blockers.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
A bishop in Jerusalem has appealed for Christians to start returning to the Holy Land on pilgrimage, insisting they should visit holy places located within Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
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Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, World News
The Irish prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, has conceded that his government was defeated “comprehensively” when voters rejected amendments to the constitution that the country’s bishops warned would have weakened supports for marriage and undermined motherhood.
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Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, World News
A constitutional referendum scheduled for March 8 could weaken the incentive for young people to get married, Ireland’s bishops have warned.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
Ireland’s Catholic bishops called on Israel and Hamas to immediately end hostilities in the Holy Land as the war triggered by the Oct. 7 attacks enters its sixth month, and U.N. agencies warn that children are dying of starvation in Gaza.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News
The head of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem has described as “heartbreaking” an incident of being spat at by Jewish extremists in the Old City, describing the suspects as “hooligans of religion.”
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has offered “steadfast prayers” on behalf of Catholics after it was announced that Britain’s King Charles III is undergoing treatment for cancer.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News
Michelle O’Neill of the Sinn Féin party is the first Catholic to head the region’s government.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem told OSV News that the level of destruction in Gaza is unprecedented and many residents there are “starving.”
