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Stories for August 2014

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 29

 Nigerian archbishop shuns suggestions for security guards, despite terror threat
 Breakthrough close in treating heart disease with adult stem cells?
 Legionary priest apologizes for comparing Maciel with St. Mary Magdalene
 Patriarchs challenge Islamic officials, world leaders to take action against terrorists
 Outgoing Vatican prefect says he asked for appointment to Spanish archdiocese
 Pope meets missionary pastor of Gaza's Catholics
 Australian Catholic paper declines ads for McAleese speaking appearance
 SSPX priest celebrates Mass in Vatican basilica
 Protestant church forced out of East Jerusalem building
 New abortion-suicide controversy in Ireland
 28% of US parishes have more than $1M in revenue
 Bishop distinguishes Syria’s Muslims from Saudi-backed militias
 Cuba’s patroness given place of honor in Vatican Gardens
 Vatican prelate: world must act to defend, help Iraq’s Christians

Released Thursday, Aug. 28

 Hindu fundamentalists 'reconvert' Christians in Indian village
 Poland interested in extraditing former papal nucnio
 Veteran US congressman enters Catholic Church
 Australian PM says school chaplains should be religious, not social workers
 Brazilian bishops to host televised presidential debate
 Federal court decision decriminalizes polygamy in Utah
 Iraqi prelate holds US responsible for plight of Christians
 Pope Francis transfers Vatican cardinal to Spanish archdiocese
 German bishops on Middle East: nations must act to prevent genocide
 Pope meets with family of slain Catholic Pakistani official
 Caritas Turkey financially ‘powerless’ in face of influx of Christian refugees
 Russian patriarch offers condolences to Pope Francis
 Islamic State’s control of Syrian territory marked by crucifixions, amputations
 Franciscan leader: ‘the Middle East is in flames’

Released Wednesday, Aug. 27

 Italian bishops' leader says Church should welcome 'unconventional couples' to sacraments
 Indian state discusses ban on sacramental wine
 Bahrain's king offers shelter to Christian refugees from Iraq
 Russia, Moscow patriarchate spreading 'misinformation' about Ukraine, Catholic prelate charges
 German cardinal sees 'Francis effect' as passing trend
 Dominican prosecutors interested in pursuing extradition of former nuncio
 Eastern Church leaders in summit, hoping to save Christian presence in Iraq, Syria
  Pope Francis emphasizes: parishes should not be places of gossip and division
 California diocese begins project to spread solar energy
 Prelate: in establishing ordinariates, Pope Benedict did something concrete to restore Christian unity
 Egypt: a year after attacks, Coptic Christians worship atop church ruins
 Historic visit of 5 patriarchs to Iraq’s persecuted Christians: full text of remarks

Released Tuesday, Aug. 26

 Drowned immigrants in Mediterranean outnumber some war casualties, says Vatican paper
 Pope's special Iraq envoy heads next for Washington
 School texts in India promote Hindu extremism, Jesuit charges
 Minnesota archbishop appoints judge to supervise sex-abuse response
 Vatican official, Syrian prelate call for international force to block Islamic State
 St. Louis archbishop: ‘dismantle systemic racism’
 US priest has visited North Korea 51 times
 Stolen consecrated Host returned to Oklahoma archdiocese
 Report: Christian refugees seek mass exodus from Iraq
 Prelate ponders changes since Civil Rights movement
 $13,000 fine for NY farm owners who said no to lesbian wedding
 Ukraine: leading prelate honors ‘Heavenly Hundred’ protestors

Released Monday, Aug. 25

 Nigerian officials worry terrorists might disguise themselves as nuns
 Cardinal George testing new anti-cancer drug
 Pope-emeritus Benedict celebrates Mass with former students
 California government tells Catholic universities they must offer employees abortion coverage
 Violence in Iraq is not simply Islam vs. Christianity, says Vatican Secretary of State
 Could laicized archbishop, former papal nuncio, be extradited to face abuse charges?
 Letter from Pope Francis read at slain journalist’s funeral Mass
 Pope calls for prayers for Ukraine
 Pope Francis: Jesus is more than a ‘teacher of wisdom’ or ‘model of justice’
 Papal message for Communion and Liberation gathering
 Iraq: patriarch appeals to ‘conscience of the world,’ says US actions, Muslim leaders’ words not sufficient
 Archbishop: new HHS mandate ‘accommodation’ will reduce religious freedom
 USCCB committee reaffirms commitment to dialogue with Muslims

Released Friday, Aug. 22

 Obama administration offers another 'accommodation' on contraceptive mandate
 Boko Haram changing strategy, aiming to control territory in Nigeria
 Church leaders voice misgivings about ice-bucket challenge
 India: Christian women arrested on ‘forced conversion’ charges
 Papal encouragement for Work of Nazareth
 Pakistan: rape an ‘instrument of power’ over Christian girls, says attorney
 Ukrainian Catholic leader blasts Russian Orthodox statements, says Church is being oppressed
 Pope’s special envoy returns from Iraq, testifies to ‘extraordinary faith’ of nation’s Christians
 Jerusalem patriarch calls for international intervention in Gaza
 US dioceses to take up special collection for the Middle East

Released Thursday, Aug. 21

 Oklahoma archdiocese successful in lawsuit to block Black Mass
 Pope calls family of James Foley to offer prayers, sympathy
 Pope will mark 100th anniversary of Armenian genocide
 Syro-Malabar Church changes policy on bishops' burial
 Cardinal Pell defends Vatican response to Australian sex-abuse commission
 Pennsylvania diocese wins federal injunction against contraceptive mandate
 Detroit's Cardinal Szoka dead at 86
 Islamic extremists target famed Buddhist temple in Indonesia
 Mideast conflicts show 'moral bankruptcy of modern warfare,' say African bishops
 Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga sends message of solidarity to Iraqi Christians
 Papal envoy: all should be concerned with Iraqi Christian refugees
 Action urged against legislation curtailing religious freedom
 ‘Slaves no more’ will be theme for World Day of Peace
 Church is experiencing ‘a martyrdom’ in eastern Ukraine, says leading prelate
 Kurdish forces retake 2 Christian villages; crosses restored to churches
 Patriarchs ask international community to protect Iraqi Christians
 Brief papal message to Hungary’s president
 American religious leaders welcome Gaza ceasefire

Released Wednesday, Aug. 20

 LCWR ready to defy hierarchy, analyst finds
 Lebanese prelate would make common cause with Hezbollah against Islamic state
 Oklahoma archbishop brings suit to stop Black Mass
 Jewish leader: indifference to slaughter of Christians is 'obscene'
 Kurdish leader offers to arm Christian refugees
 Pope greets 'his' Argentine soccer team
 Priest in Ferguson, Missouri tells Vatican Radio audience about simmering tensions
 Slain journalist's family comforted by parish priest in New Hampshire
 Pope reflects on apostolic journey to Korea
 Court upholds Tennessee’s marriage law
 Many Philippine bishops back amendment against pork-barrel spending
 Catholic radio station, shut down by South Sudan’s government, offers apology
 Ukraine: pro-Russian separatists occupy monastery
 Some Iraqi refugees ‘at great risk’ of death
 Central African prelate urges government to act following massacre
 Further action needed in Iraq, USCCB president tells President Obama

Released Tuesday, Aug. 19

 Boko Haram terrorism becoming more worrisome, reports Nigerian prelate
 Pope mourns nephew's family, killed in auto crash
 Victory for Baptist college against HHS mandate
 Church in Malawi: no conflict between Pope, region’s bishops on homosexuality
 Europe’s bishops prod UN Security Council on Iraq
 Jewish-Catholic dialogue deplores persecution of Christians
 St. Louis prelate issues letter on Ferguson violence
 Russian patriarch: Ukrainian Catholics want to ‘eradicate Orthodoxy’
 New report of Islamic State atrocities

Released Monday, Aug. 18

 Pope approves military action in Iraq, but not unilateral US bombing
 With a plea for reunification, Pope ends Korean visit
 Sex-abuse plaintiffs charge New Mexico archdiocese assigned priests from local treatment center
 South Sudan: Catholic radio shut down by government
 New Orthodox leader voices support for 'unified Ukraine'
 Pope's envoy, Chaldean Patriarch beg international help for Iraqi Christians
 Theologian raps bishops as LCWR ends annual meeting
 Pope urges Asian youth to build a ‘holier, more missionary and humble Church’
 Be firmly grounded in the faith as you engage in dialogue, Pope tell Asia’s bishops
 Pope challenges religious to embrace poverty, laity to go beyond charitable assitance
 Follow the martyrs’ example of sacrifice and love, Pope tells 800,000 Koreans
 Christ is knocking at the door of your heart, Pope tells youth
 Pope calls upon Korea’s Catholics to combat materialism, serve God in freedom

Released Thursday, Aug. 14

 Archbishop Sartain tells LCWR leaders he acts as 'brother and a friend'
 China blocks young Catholics from attending papal Mass; arrests feared
 New speculation on Irish cardinal's resignation
 Pope confirms plan to visit Philadelphia next year
 Delaware diocese paid $16 million in legal fees for bankruptcy
 Pope's small car is a message to Koreans
 North Korea fires test missiles in show of force as Pope's plane approaches Seoul
 Pope urges Koreans to build justice, spread faith
 Report: 128 Christians killed in last year in Pakistan
 Pontifical council: 4,000 Iraqi families assisted since June
 Ghana’s bishops: screen travelers for Ebola
 Christian refugees dying in Iraq
 Vatican diplomat: international community must act in Iraq
 Pope Francis arrives in South Korea
 US bishops’ Labor Day statement focuses on youth unemployment

Released Wednesday, Aug. 13

 Chilean priest accused of stealing children for adoption
 Oklahoma governor denounces planned Black Mass
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church elects new leader in time of crisis
 Prelate suspends sign of peace amid Ebola concerns
 Pope urges United Nations to act in Iraq
 India: 50 villages attempt to deny entry to priests
 Nigerian prelates decry oil theft, pollution
 Pope remembers victims of Nazi massacre
 Bishop discusses situation of Church in Crimea
 Patriarch pleads with US, EU, Arab League: clear jihadists from the Nineveh plain

Released Tuesday, Aug. 12

 Quebec's radical priest-politician, Raymond Gravel, dead of cancer at 61
 Nicaraguan Catholic questions reinstatement of unrepentant Sandinista priest
 Mexican report: 45,000 children abducted for sex traffic, organ transplants
 Pope's special envoy leaves for Iraq
 Chinese 'underground' priest released after 8 years in prison
 Muslim militants organize to set up Islamic state in Indonesian province
 Italian cardinal: 'truly effective' intervention needed to stop persecution in Iraq
 Spanish priest is Ebola victim; pressure mounts for use of experimental treatment
 Strong Vatican condemnation of Islamic State
 African cardinal emphasizes importance of women in Church
 Germany: some Christian refugees face threats from Muslims
 Church leaders in Ukraine welcomes sanctions against Russia, say Christians must defend their nation
 CRS report on situation in Gaza
 Iraq: Chaldean patriarch meets with leading Shiite cleric

Released Monday, Aug. 11

 Vatican UN envoy says military action justified to save Christians in Iraq
 New attacks on Catholic churches in Nigeria
 Survey finds support for American women's religious leadership
 Religious sister working as nurse in Liberia dies of Ebola
 Lebanese bishops back efforts against terrorism
 Orthodox-Catholic tensions rising in Ukraine
 Papal condolences following Iranian plane crash
 We are saved only in Jesus’ name, Pope tells Koreans
 Patriarchate posts report on destruction in Gaza
 Chaldean patriarch: Obama’s actions in Iraq are insufficient
 Go forward with courage, Pope tells youth
 Adore the Lord, says Pope Francis, as did the disciples on the boat
 Pope Francis again decries situation in Iraq, urges prayer for peace
 Pope names, meets with special personal envoy to Iraq

Released Friday, Aug. 8

 Attack on Pentecostals in India
 Lebanon: bishops praise army’s fight against Islamic State
 US: August 17 special day of prayer for Iraq
 Pope Francis praises Knights of Columbus for defending marriage, religious liberty
 Bishop: Gaza Catholics need aid ‘more than ever’
 Conversions to Christianity on the rise in Egypt
 Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians in flight as Islamic State advances
 ‘A real via crucis’: Pope Francis, patriarch plead on behalf of Iraq’s Christians

Released Thursday, Aug. 7

 Interview with Cardinal Pell on reform of Vatican finances
 East African bishops decry threats to family, ‘strongly condemn’ same-sex unions
 Mexico: bishop welcomes state medical care for migrants
 Pope welcomes opening of center for victims of exploitation
 French basilica desecrated
 Patriarch: aid preferable to visas for Iraqi Christian refugees
 Uganda: bishop opposes tax on private schools
 Cardinal opposes Nigerian health bill
 Pope Francis: families are called to stability, fruitfulness

Released Wednesday, Aug. 6

 Bishops move to counter black Mass in Oklahoma City
 Pope emphasizes importance of Beatitudes, Matthew 25 in following Christ
 ‘The lavish homes of American archbishops’
 El Salvador: priest arrested for helping drug gangs
 Nicaragua’s bishops warn of Sandinista human rights violations
 Patriarch pleads for humanitarian assistance, political action on behalf of Iraq’s Christians
 Nuncio fears potential Russian persecution of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
 Dublin prelate recalls anniversary of World War I
 USCCB, CRS: speak with representatives about Holy Land, unaccompanied children
 Speak to others about Christ, use freedom well, Pope tells youth

Released Tuesday, Aug. 5

 Prelate: ‘can we not do right by’ unaccompanied migrant children?
 Gunmen attack Nigerian parish
 Sunday Mass attendance in Germany falls below 11%
 Islamic State advances in northern Iraq, Lebanon; Christians, others flee
 All Orthodox in Ukraine should reunite with Moscow, says Russian Orthodox official
 Bishop pledges to stay in Libya: ‘I cannot leave the few remaining Christians’
 English cardinal commemorates World War I centenary
 Pope lifts suspension of priest who served as Sandinista foreign minister
 Vatican newspaper decries surrogacy
 Papal condolences following death of Australian cardinal
 $24M given to retired religious from national collection

Released Monday, Aug. 4

 ‘In memory of a mother’
 Pope urges Scouts to follow Jesus, defend Christian values
 Cardinal Clancy dead at 90
 French cardinal visits Iraq’s persecuted Christians
 Canadian bishops’ conference marks World War I anniversary
 Pope commemorates St. Peter Faber’s feast
 Central African prelate hopeful about ceasefire
 Patriarch: Gaza a ‘factory of desperate people’
 Pope reflects on Christ feeding the multitude
 Strong USCCB support for Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act

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