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Eastern Catholic patriarchs denounce Islamic State’s ‘crimes against humanity’
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Vatican urges priests to clamp down on excessive emotions during the sign of peace
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Meriam Ibrahim leaves Italy for new life in New Hampshire
ROME (RNS) Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and then spared after an international campaign, left Italy today (July...
Ban on church construction angers Sudanese, Meriam Ibrahim allowed to emigrate
Christians in Sudan frequently face arrests, impromptu questioning, and expulsion. But conditions worsened after the government announced a ban on the construction of new churches.
...Meriam Ibrahim, freed from Sudan, plans to settle in New Hampshire
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Pope Francis: End the ‘racist and xenophobic’ approach to migrants along U.S.-Mexico border
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Francis meets with victims of abuse, promises ‘accountability’
Pope Francis recently held his first meeting with victims of clergy sexual abuse, begging for forgiveness and promising to hold “accountable” the bishops who were complicit in covering up for preda...
Vatican diplomat convicted of sexual abuse, defrocked
A former Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, has been defrocked and is likely to face criminal prosecution at the Vatican after a church inquiry convicted him...
'Inside every Christian is a Jew,' says Francis
Underscoring the close ties between Christianity and Judaism and calling Holocaust denial “madness,” Pope Francis told an interviewer that “inside every Christian is a Jew.”
...Pope Francis calls for 'courage' toward peace between Israel, Palestine
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...Pope Francis tells couples not to substitute dogs and cats for children
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Pope Francis will take rabbi and Muslim leader with him to Holy Land
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Nigerian cardinal: Schoolgirls’ abduction is shameful
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The kidnapping of 300 teenage schoolgirls by the Islamist group Boko Haram has shamed Nigeria, Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan said Wednesday (May 7).
...Victims demand action as Vatican abuse panel gets down to work
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