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Headlines for March 18, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Lourdes shrine closes for the first time in its history
 147 US dioceses have suspended all public Masses
 Pope, in newspaper interview, encourages families to show concrete gestures of love
 Pope Francis prays for the elderly, preaches on forgiveness
 Forgive others to be forgiven, Pope says at audience
 Pontifical academy preparing document on ‘Coronavirus and Human Fraternity’
 Public Masses suspended in Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay
 Italian bishop survives coronavirus, returns from hospital
 Canada’s psychiatrists: Refusing euthanasia for mentally ill is ‘discrimination’
 Leading Polish prelate calls for common nightly Rosary
 Congolese priest survives machete attack
 Leading Methodist ecumenist dies at 81
 7 coronavirus cases confirmed in 2 Queens parishes
 Vatican official: ‘We are going through the dark night of the soul’
 Maronite Patriarch weighs in on Lebanon’s economic crisis

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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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