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Caritas to assist Italy with refugee humanitarian corridor

January 27, 2017

The Italian government has agreed to open a humanitarian corridor to allow refugees from the Horn of African to travel from Ethiopian refugee camps into Italy.

Once in Italy, Caritas, the Church’s charitable agency, will work to settle the refugees in homes.

 

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Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

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The Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the…

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