Headlines for May 16, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Tokyo archbishop elected new president of Caritas
 New US report alleges religious freedom violations in China, Iran, India
 Papal call for pro-family policies to address poverty, demographic winter
 USCCB committee chairman warns against over-the-counter sale of birth control pill
 8 border bishops call for compassion for migrants in need
 French bishops to issue ID cards for priests in good standing
 Sharp rise in executions worldwide in 2022
 Cathedral desecrated in Tanzania
 African bishops appeal for debt cancellation ahead of G7 summit
 Putin returns famed icon to Russian Orthodox Church
 South Carolina parish vandalized
 Indian religious urge bishops to push back against anti-Christian violence
 ‘God is trans’ exhibit remains in NY Paulist church, but with controversial title removed
 ‘Value Movers’ relocate to escape anti-Christian climates

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Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot (251-356) from the 3rd century. St. Anthony, the Father of the monastics, retired to the desert at about the age of eighteen in order to live in perfect solitude. Many heard about his ascetic life and came to join him in his hermitage, He laid the…

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