
Catholic News Service
February 23, 2018
Prayer for peace in Congo, South Sudan a call to action, cardinal says
VATICAN – Pope Francis' call for a day of prayer and fasting for peace in war-torn countries like South Sudan and Congo is also a reminder for world leaders to protect their countrymen from violence and injustice, a Vatican official said.
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International
February 23, 2018
Refugee, migrant children should not be detained like criminals, U.N. speakers say
UNITED NATIONS – Migration is not a crime and vulnerable migrant and refugee children should not be detained as if they were criminals, speakers said at a U.N. program Feb. 21.
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International
February 22, 2018
Christian leader, English bishop add to outcry over attacks in Syria
AMMAN, Jordan – A Syrian Christian political leader has joined the growing ranks of international condemnation over violent attacks in Syria's northwestern area of Afrin and the Damascus enclave of Eastern Ghouta.
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International
February 21, 2018
Parkland students arrive in Florida capital to urge action on gun reform
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – About 100 students from Parkland arrived in Tallahassee the evening of Feb. 20, highly motivated to press their state lawmakers in person to reform gun laws after the deadly shooting rampage at their high school.
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International
February 22, 2018
Pope Francis challenges young people: Don't live life for 'likes'
VATICAN – It's time to break free from fear, fake online personas and looking at the world through a digital screen display, Pope Francis told young people.
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International
February 21, 2018
Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency
VATICAN – The Catholic Church in China registered 48,556 baptisms in 2017, reflecting the vitality and missionary strength of the Catholic communities there, according to a report by Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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International
February 20, 2018
Ex-Chilean seminarian: Meeting with Vatican abuse investigator 'intense', 'hopeful'
NEW YORK – A former Chilean seminarian who accused a current bishop of abuse cover-up met with a Vatican investigator and said he finally felt he had been heard.
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International
February 20, 2018
U.S. bishops declare national call-in day to urge Congress to save DACA
WASHINGTON – After the Senate failed Feb. 15 to garner the 60 votes needed to move a bill forward to protect the "Dreamers," officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced a "National Catholic Call-In Day to Protect Dreamers" Feb. 26.
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International
February 19, 2018
Christian leaders in Jerusalem protest plan to tax church properties
JERUSALEM – The heads and patriarchs of Christian churches in Jerusalem strongly denounced the city of Jerusalem's plan to force churches to pay property taxes.
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International
February 17, 2018
Time to be 'honest' in dialogue with Muslims, Chaldean archbishop says
WASHINGTON – If Christians in the Middle East are going to be "honest" with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State's rise to power in 2014.
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International