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Vatican City, Mar 31, 2020 / 04:15 am (CNA).- Vatican flags are flying at half-staff on Tuesday in solidarity with the victims of the coronavirus in Italy and worldwide.
“Today, in solidarity with Italy, the Holy See will display flags at half-m…
Read MoreVatican City, Mar 31, 2020 / 04:14 am (CNA).- Pope Francis prayed Tuesday for all those who do not have homes to go to during the coronavirus pandemic, that people may be aware of this reality and that the Church will welcome them.
“Let us pray …
Read MorePunjab (map) is Pakistan’s most populous province. 97% of its people are Muslims; nearly 3% are Christians.
Read More“Due to government travel restrictions, many day laborers [in Pakistan] lost the only source of livelihood for their family,” leading them to seek food from non-governmental organizations, according to the report.
Read MoreThe Congregation for the Eastern Churches has postponed the international collection until Sunday, September 13, the day preceding the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Read More“This is inhuman, because these people are poor and marginalized and desperate,” Bishop Ignatius D’Souza of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh (map) said after hundreds of migrant workers were sprayed with a chemical solution. “Their dign…
Read More“I can’t explain what’s going on at [the two parishes],” said Father Gerald Dennis Gill, director of its archdiocese’s Office of Divine Worship. “This is definitely contrary to our directives.”
Read MoreIn Hospital, But in Good Condition, Cardinal Says He Is Serene, Confident, & Entrusts Himself to the Lord
The post ‘An Opportunity to Share in Suffering’ — Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, Tests Positive for Coronavirus appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MoreReading 1 Nm 21:4-9
From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road,
to bypass the land of Edom.
But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses,
“Why have you brought us up from Egypt t…
“There is no clean water anywhere to wash your hands as required, there is no electricity in the houses, and there are not even hospitals,” said Father Renold Antoine, the Redemptorist superior in Haiti. “Many people live on the stree…
Read More“We ask the grace to weep” with Jesus, “who was not ashamed to weep,” Pope Francis preached on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. “May today be for everyone like a Sunday of tears.”
Read MoreCaritas Internationalis is the Church’s federation of relief and development agencies. In 2016, Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos (Lesvos), to which thousands of refugees have fled (map).
Read More“The obligation to our Easter Duties to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion is removed from us,” the Archdiocese of Westminster stated. Instead, says Cardinal Nichols, “we can make an Act of Perfect Contrition to express our d…
Read MoreThe four, who work for SOS Chrétiens d’Orient, were abducted in January.
Read MoreThe jihadist group, also known as Islamic State in West Africa, was founded in 2002.
Read More“Today, in solidarity with Italy, the Holy See will fly flags at half-mast in mourning, to express its closeness to the victims of the pandemic in Italy and around the world, to their families and to those who generously fight to bring it to an e…
Read More“Large majorities of Americans who pray daily (86%) and of US Christians (73%) have taken to prayer during the outbreak—but so have some who say they seldom or never pray and people who say they do not belong to any religion (15% and 24%, r…
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At least three priests around the world were arrested on Sunday for celebrating Mass publicly in contravention of coronavirus rules
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This is the first time in nearly 700 years the holy site has closed for an extended period due to disease.
The post Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed indefinitely appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreCardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Pope’s Vicar for Rome since 2017, is Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica.
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