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Baton Rouge Catholic community works to promote peace after shootings

July 22, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. –As tragic events have unfolded in the Baton Rouge area, the Catholic community has been at the forefront of helping to spread the message of peace.

Turkey’s Catholics watchful during crackdown after failed coup

July 21, 2016

OXFORD, England – Bishop Ruben Tierrablanca Gonzalez, apostolic vicar of Istanbul, said Catholics were following closely the government crackdown that followed an attempted coup.

U.S. cardinal says ‘Christian nations’ in West must counter Islamic influx

July 21, 2016

Amid heightened tensions over Islamic State-fueled terror attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric, a prominent American cardinal says Islam “wants to govern the world” and Americans must decide if they are going to reassert “the Christian origin of our own nation” in order to avoid that fate.

Church joins U.K. project to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees

July 21, 2016

MANCHESTER, England – The Catholic Church in England and Wales has joined a government project to resettle an estimated 20,000 refugees from the Syrian war.

Pope sends cardinal to South Sudan to urge peace

July 20, 2016

ROME – Pope Francis sent a high-ranking cardinal to South Sudan to urge for a peaceful end to the escalating violence in the country.

Pope offers to help, meet families following massacre in Nice

July 19, 2016

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis offered his help to the people of Nice in a surprise phone call following a deadly attack during Bastille Day celebrations, said the head of an association of Italians living in France.

Churches among those swept up in Pokemon Go craze

July 19, 2016

ST. LOUIS – Since its release in the United States July 6, Pokemon Go has quickly become a cultural phenomenon.

El Salvador’s amnesty law unconstitutional, nation needs reconciliation, says bishop

July 19, 2016

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Salvadorans must not overreact to the Supreme Court decision to declare the country's amnesty law unconstitutional, said Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador.

Bishop feels 'deep ache in my heart' after fatal shootings of police

July 18, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. – Baton Rouge Bishop Robert W. Muench renewed a call for a diocesan-wide week of prayer, fasting and reflection after the latest fatal shootings in the city, which this time took the lives of three law enforcement officers.

Healing racial divides starts with dialogue, black bishops say

July 18, 2016

WASHINGTON – The threat of being pulled over by police and arrested for something that even "hinted of going beyond the status quo," was very real to retired Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, when he was growing up in segregated Baton Rouge, Louisiana.