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Stories for week of January 07, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jan. 12

 Pope knew choice of Chilean bishop would cause furor on abuse issue, confidential letter reveals
 Congo: police open fire to disperse crowd after cardinal’s Mass
 L’Osservatore Romano denounces crude Trump comment on immigrants’ homelands
 Father Matthew Lamb, noted American theologian, dies at 80
 Pro-life groups launch last-ditch legal challenge against new Illinois abortion law
 Central African Republic’s cardinal laments violence, persecution of the Church
 Missionary discusses repression in Togo
 Catholic Church serving society’s development in Madhya Pradesh, yet schools are attacked
 Prelate sees urgent need to promote interfaith peace, harmony in Pakistan
 New Philippine bishops’ president vows ‘open communication lines’ with government
 New book about Pope Francis contains 14 interviews with prelates, relatives, friends
 Vatican press briefing: Pope’s visit to Chile and Peru confirms commitment to indigenous peoples
 Hundreds of churches, camps and charities protest abortion clause in Canada Summer Jobs grant application
 Background: Pope Francis’s message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees
 The Church in Peru and Chile: statistical overview
 Resignations and appointments (1/11)
 Time to act on DACA, says Los Angeles archbishop
 Papal audiences (1/10-1/11)
 Trump says fairer deal might coax US back into the Paris climate accord
 Colombia president recalls peace negotiators from Ecuador after ELN attacks
 UN welcomes Korea talks which can build confidence and trust
 Rohingya children trapped in ‘appalling’ conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Released Thursday, Jan. 11

 German bishop: find positive responses to same-sex couples
 Another Chinese church demolished
 Amoris Laetitia brings ‘paradigm change’ to Church, says Cardinal Parolin
 World Watch List 2018: the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to follow Jesus
 Children die as cold snap hits Bangladesh; Caritas rushes to provide aid
 Monks with machetes: why Buddhist nationalists are leading the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
 Sunday Mass attendance falls to 37% in Poland
 Catholic volunteers in Manila help the homeless help themselves
 1st Christmas Mass in Mosul since 2014—Muslims lend a hand
 World Council of Churches delegation visits Protestants in China
 Pakistan: bishops appeal for funds to assist those injured in church attack
 India: priest warns against worship of ‘Mother India’
 Israeli rabbi killed in West Bank drive-by shooting attack
 Regional force targets top Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria
 Syro-Malabar Catholic Church inaugurates ‎new diocese ‎
 Pope Francis provides circus tickets for over 2000 of Rome’s poor
 South Korea’s Moon willing to meet North’s Kim
 Survivors say some 50 migrants may have drowned off Libya after 300 are rescued
 Judge blocks President Trump’s decision to end young immigrant program
 USCCB president calls for courage and commitment on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
 “The hymn of the ‘Gloria’ and the prayer of the Collect”: full text of Pope’s general audience

Released Wednesday, Jan. 10

 Vatican appoints commissioner to oversee troubled lay movement
 Contraception sometimes morally required, argues member of Pontifical Academy for Life
 US bishops: papal directive does not require new translations of Mass
 Australian journalist will give Cardinal Pell’s lawyers access to notes about abuse charges
 Pope, at general audience, says that the liturgy is a true school of prayer
 Maryland Catholic school fires coach for being ‘alt-right member’
 State Department names 10 ‘egregious’ religious freedom violators
 Amid Venezuelan food shortage, religious sisters strive to save children
 A Catholic perspective on the Museum of the Bible
 In the sky this week
 Democratic Republic of the Congo: ‘Church in firing line’
 Notre Dame priest, history professor says university needs ‘major course correction’
 USCCB, CRS renew call for advocacy on behalf of migrants, refugees
 Appeals court strikes down Baltimore law targeting pregnancy centers
 At least 4.5 million take part in annual Black Nazarene procession in Manila
 In Mexico, priest laments displacement of 5,000 indigenous persons in territorial dispute
 Italian prelate calls on political candidates to be honest, realistic
 As ceasefire nears end, Colombia’s bishops urge dialogue between government, ELN
 Catholic groups decry end of immigration protection for Salvadorans
 Mortar shell hits Maronite Catholic cathedral in Damascus
 Peruvian prisoners make 300,000 Rosaries for upcoming papal visit
 24% of fathers live apart from their children
 Communications restructuring brings Vatican News 4 million social media users
 A pastor’s authority comes from closeness to God and people, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 After rare talks with the South, North Korea will send a delegation to the Winter Olympics

Released Tuesday, Jan. 9

 Preparing for trip, Pope sends video message to people of Chile, Peru
 Cardinal Pell’s accuser dies before trial date
 Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Mississippi’s conscience law
 Russian Orthodox Patriarch issues Christmas message
 Irish, English prelates pay tribute to the late Peter Sutherland
 USCCB blog analyzes poverty in America
 German bishops, Lutheran church publish ecumenical guidebook for Olympic athletes
 Church in Australia aids Maasai in Tanzania
 Pakistan’s Catholics take part in ecumenical, interreligious gatherings
 Al-Azhar University convenes Muslims and Christians to discuss the ‘Jerusalem issue’
 Prelate deeply disappointed by termination of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador
 Congo cardinal decries Kabila’s refusal to adhere to agreement to hold elections
 Seoul cardinal, mayor sign agreement to promote solar energy
 8,000 college students attend FOCUS conference
 Korean prelate prays for the success of talks between the two Koreas
 The indigenous peoples of the Amazon await Pope Francis
 Priest attacked in Central African Republic
 Poland: Marches of the Three Kings draw 1.2 million
 ‘Contempt for the weak is work of Satan,’ Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 6 kidnapped Catholics, included 3 nuns, regain freedom in Nigeria
 Schedule of Pope’s public liturgical celebrations released for January, February
 Resignations and appointments (1/8)
 Italy’s coast guard rescues scores of migrants off Libyan coast
 Syria’s death toll in Idlib car bomb rises to at least 25

Released Monday, Jan. 8

 Pope’s focus on human rights, migration, ecology in ‘State of the World’ address
 Vatican now has diplomatic ties with 183 nations
 Muslim converts protest Pope’s statements on Islam
 Schedule released for papal visit to Chile, Peru
 Russian intervention in Syria stopped slaughter of Christians, says Moscow Patriarch
 Venezuelan bishops’ leader decries Maduro regime
 El Paso bishop: what happens to the 192,000 US citizen children of Salvadoran TPS parents?
 Pennsylvania court requires Amish couple to connect property to sewer system with electric pump
 Fewer teens are having sex as declines in risky behaviors continue
 USCCB president issues message for National Migration Week
 Could Iranian protests bring religious freedom for Christians?
 2017 in review: a look back at the year that was
 Pope Francis’ conversations with the Jesuits in Myanmar and Bangladesh
 Repression in DR Congo: 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested on 12/31
 USCCB’s top lobbyist trades political realm for parish catechesis
 Report: at least 23 attacks on Christians in India during Christmas season
 New archbishop of Paris seen as vigorous pro-life advocate
 Jakarta archdiocese declares 2018 as ‘year of unity’
 Vatican official see progress in relations with Russian Orthodox Church
 Egypt: Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in new cathedral amid tight security
 Remember the significance of your baptism, Pope tells faithful
 Pope Francis baptizes 34 babies of Vatican employees in Sistine Chapel
 Jesus is met with ‘careful searching, indifference, fear,’ Pope says in Epiphany Angelus address
 The Pope’s Epiphany homily: ‘the Magi see the star, they set out, and they bring gifts’
 Papal audiences (1/5)
 North and South Korea agree to first talks in two years
 Ukrainian bishop: ‘most important mission of the Church is to bring God to the people’
 More than half of Iraq’s displaced have returned home

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