Headlines for November 18, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 US bishops approve statement on the Eucharist, National Eucharistic Revival
 Elimination of nuclear weapons is a ‘moral and humanitarian imperative,’ Vatican Secretary of State says
 Australian archbishop issues vaccine mandate: no conscience exceptions
 Supreme Court declines Christian school’s challenge to Oregon’s Covid restrictions
 China intensifies surveillance, control of clergy
 Papal appeals for abuse victims, Italian workers whose jobs are threatened
 Moscow Catholics protest sale of church
 In Pakistan, bishops’ commission pleads for end of abduction, forced conversion of women, girls
 Missionaries of Charity evacuated 14 disabled orphans from Kabul
 Vatican organizes conference on eradicating child labor
 Vatican newspaper deplores death of refugee on Poland-Belarus border
 Warm meeting between Armenian prime minister, new Catholic Patriarch

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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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