Headlines for November 28, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Belgian Salesians defend decision to send priest convicted of sexual abuse to Africa
 Full text of Pope’s in-flight press conference from Japan
 Pope encourages Armenian foundation in its work of promoting peace
 Brazilian priest beatified
 China investigates Christian book buyers
 Priest kidnapped, released in Enugu State
 USCCB renews call for ‘mutual, verifiable nuclear disarmament’
 Irish government’s abuse commission says it overestimated children in religious-run homes
 Togo’s bishops lament government oppression, imploding political opposition
 South Sudan’s factional leaders fail to agree on unity government
 Place the human person at center of ecological and development concerns, Vatican diplomat says
 2 teenagers arrested for setting fire to former French cathedral
 Activist Chicago priest, Father George Clements, dead at age 87
 Prelate discusses Lebanon’s financial crisis

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Wednesday of Holy Week is traditionally known as Spy Wednesday, to commemorate the treachery of Judas, who made a bargain with the high priest to betray Jesus for 30 silver pieces (Matt 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6). The reading from the Prophet Isaiah is the third portrayal of the…

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