Headlines for September 21, 2017

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope reiterates promise to act firmly against sexual abuse
 Pope receives head of Muslim World League
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ urges UN action on test-ban treaty, abolition of nuclear arms
 Vatican newspaper criticizes Trump’s UN speech
 Vatican cardinal calls Hiroshima the ‘new Golgotha,’ urges renewed missionary zeal
 Vietnam’s bishops offer candid criticism of new religion law (full text in French)
 Trump, Macron, UN leader speak on North Korea nuclear threat
 Jesuit order, Vatican Secretariat for Communications sign agreement to continue cooperation
 India’s laws against conversion are divisive, could prompt violence, warns Jesuit theologian
 More than 40 million slaves, 152 million child laborers
 Colorado cake baker, partisan redistricting, travel ban on Supreme Court docket
 Indonesia: religious orders renew commitment to interfaith dialogue following trial of Christian politician
 Oceania bishops call on governments to protect ocean from corporate exploitation
 Vatican police move homeless from St. Peter’s Square in daytime
 Israeli church vandalized; Jewish extremists suspected
 Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’
 Holy relics: preparing the remains of soon-to-be beatified Father Stanley Rother
 Mexican bishops appeal for solidarity with earthquake victims
 Antilles bishops assess hurricane damage
 Ave and Irma: how this small Catholic university weathered the storm
 President Trump: high holy days message
 Rabbi Sacks: Cultural climate change
 Bishop Barron speaks at Facebook headquarters on ‘how to have a religious argument’
 Cardinal DiNardo: statement on Mexico City earthquake
 Resignations and appointments (9/20)

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