Headlines for July 11, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Search of Vatican tombs yields no clues on missing girl
 Vincent Lambert dies of starvation
 British government pledges ‘sea change in our approach’ to persecuted Christians
 ‘Doctors should serve life, not take it away,’ Pope Francis says as Vincent Lambert is starved
 Italian bishops’ conference donates 1M euros to South Sudan
 Vatican spokesman: Probe into Sistine Chapel Choir’s finances will continue
 Jharkand Christians see government land probe as persecution
 9 Catholic schools in Memphis close; 6 will reopen as charter schools
 19-year-old Christian arrested in Punjab for blasphemy after fight over cricket match
 Senior Sri Lankan officials will not be charged with murder in Easter attacks
 Pax Christi bishops sign ecumenical statement against war with Iran
 Exarchy created for Ukrainian Catholics in Italy
 Papua Church network seeks reconciliation
 Panama’s bishops call on new president to consider common good, dignity of the person
 Jesuit leader apologizes for slavery at Georgetown
 Russian Orthodox official in hot water for saying men are more intelligent than women
 In Amazon region, Church network advocates for indigenous group threatened by mining

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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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