Headlines for January 30, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Papal message to Cuban conference links Christ’s teaching, universal call to fraternal love
 German bishops split on immigration legislation
 Vatican prefect contradicts earlier decision on holy days of obligation
 Cardinal Dolan lashes back at Vance remarks on immigration
 Vatican diplomat decries attacks on civilians in war
 USCCB committee chairman welcomes executive order protecting children from chemical, surgical mutilation
 Pope praises legacy of Dom Prosper Guéranger
 Pope mourns death of Albanian Orthodox prelate
 More religious communities leaving Nicaragua
 Rebel Bishop Williamson dead at 84
 Peruvian cardinal protests ‘injustice’ of abuse charges
 Pope decries new bloodshed in Congo
 Papal condolences after DC plane crash
 False blasphemy charges promote blackmail in Pakistan
 No complaints against pregnancy-help centers in Massachusetts
 Watchdog group accuses Philippine bishops of abuse cover-up
 Vatican, China still at odds on new bishops’ appointments?
 Cardinal Gantin’s sainthood cause opens
 ‘We need peacemakers’: Manipur archbishop pleads for end to conflict
 Arson attacks on historic Spanish church

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Memorial of Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs

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Today is the Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions (d. 1886), the companions numbering twenty-one other Ugandan martyrs. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Charles Lwanga, a catechist and a young leader, was martyred in 1886 with a group of…

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