Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: News, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom, World News
The National Park Service announced Aug. 4 that it will restore and reinstall a statue of a senior Confederate officer in the nation’s capital that was toppled during riots following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador issued a pair of petitions for lawmakers during a Mass celebrated for the feast of the Divine Savior, observed in the country to commemorate the Transfiguration. Both petitions ventured into the realm of politics.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News
The wartime story of the heroic nuns from Warsaw begins during the uprising in August 1944, when their convent became a site of both faith and tragedy.
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Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions — including a 3-year-old child — taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation’s long-running armed gang violence and political instability.
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Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth jailed for alleged human trafficking and forced conversion in central India have been released on bail under strict conditions by a special court dealing with terror cases.
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Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News
A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Religious Freedom, World News
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called the desecration of any holy place an “act of terror” and a “crime” that required “harsh consequences,” following a visit to the West Bank village of Taybeh.
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A court affiliated with Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government has sentenced nine men to 20 years in prison for the killing of a Catholic priest in the country’s conflict-torn Sagaing region earlier this year, according to Fides agency.
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Newly installed Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh has expressed his “great sorrow” over “hateful vandalism” at one of his parish churches, which federal authorities are now investigating.
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A kidnapped Nigerian priest, who previously served in Alaska, has managed to contact his home diocese, OSV News has learned.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court
In a momentous decision that has far-reaching implications for the future of public education and religious liberty in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents, not the state, hold the primary right to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
A Catholic school building in Kansas has been extensively vandalized, with the perpetrators defacing the property with swastikas.
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