Headlines for September 15, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope lauds ‘decisive’ rejection of extremism and terror in inter-faith declaration
 Interfaith statement affirms tolerance and pluralism
 Chinese government spokeswoman praises Pope’s ‘friendship and good will’
 ‘How many must die?’: Pope blasts war, appeals for peace
 Bishop Schneider questions ‘supermarket of religions’
 Faith is not ‘a fixed and timeless code,’ Pope tells Kazakh clergy
 Supreme Court declines Yeshiva bid to stay New York court order
 New York poised to strengthen oversight of nonpublic schools
 Stop Azerbaijan’s aggression, Armenian church leader pleads
 Patriarch Kirill: attempts to build world order without relying on moral values led to fierce confrontation
 Feminist leader admits ‘we inflated the figures’ to get abortion legalized in Mexico
 In Pakistan, elderly Christian man subjected to slave labor and murdered
 Ukrainian Catholic leader laments war’s ecological destruction
 King Charles III known as defender of persecuted Christians

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