Stories for week of August 18, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 23

 At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown
 Breakaway St. Louis parish declines Episcopal affiliation over property rights concerns
 New York Post op-ed: ‘Catholic-haters have just convicted an innocent cardinal’
 Philadelphia priest arrested for spending Church money on beach house, boyfriends
 New head of National Catholic Bioethics Center sees threats to human life, dignity advancing at ‘breakneck speed’
 World’s oldest living bishop, who is uncle of Chile’s president, accused of abuse
 Amazon missionary bishop rips synod’s working document
 US bishops hire a new spokeswoman, 1 month after another stirred controversy with her pro-Trump tweets
 Bishop denies that Pope Francis has meddled in Argentine politics
 Benin’s bishops deny reports they have ceased to meditate between government, opposition
 Indian priest, 5 nuns accused of defaming dismissed nun
 Death penalty an ‘attack on the inviolability’ of the human person, prelate says

Released Thursday, Aug. 22

 Lebanon is ‘adrift,’ Maronite patriarch warns
 Pakistani archbishop rues ‘frightening news’ from Kashmir, calls for peace
 British bishops call for a Christian spirituality of ecology
 Jesuit superior general says Satan is a ‘symbolic reality’
 In Colombia, bishops, religious listen to Amazonians before synod
 Burkina Faso’s leading prelate warns jihadists could eliminate the Christian presence there
 Thousands of pro-life supporters march against radical Australian abortion bill
 Hindu extremists attack 40 Catholic pilgrims walking to Marian shrine in India
 Catholics rally in prayer as Satanic ‘black mass’ takes place in Ottawa
 Pope welcomes presence of autistic girl who interrupts general audience
 In Thailand, Pakistani Christian refugee flees from more threats
 In Italy, speculation abounds that Vatican opposes Salvini becoming prime minister
 Melbourne, Sydney archbishops react to Pell decision
 Christian woman named to Sudan’s transitional ruling council
 Prelates applaud proposed regulations preventing government discrimination against faith-based federal contractors

Released Wednesday, Aug. 21

 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘They shared everything they had’
 Fearing Turkish invasion, Christians in northeastern Syria appeal for prayer, safety
 Chinese Christian prisoner released; pastor’s whereabouts unknown
 ‘False and gratuitous’: Indian bishop criticizes judge’s comments
 Scranton diocese begins probe of national shrine’s rector
 Mexican bishops: It is urgent to stop violence against women
 Minnesota archdiocese names abuse survivor to coordinate outreach efforts
 LCWR resolves to focus on migration, racism, and climate change
 India expels 86-year-old Spanish nun who helped the poor
 Planned Parenthood withdraws from Title X program over Trump administration’s abortion rule
 Contribute to Congo’s development, bishops’ conference urges multinational corporations
 Muslim-Catholic committee created to promote document signed by Pope, grand imam
 Holy See, Vietnam begin 8th round of talks toward diplomatic relations
 Cardinal Pell’s conviction upheld; Vatican, Australian bishops react

Released Tuesday, Aug. 20

 Police investigate death of Polish missionary in Puerto Rico
 Another Protestant church closed in Algeria
 Bibles escape Trump’s tariff fight with China
 Catholic, Hindu, Sikh leaders send 10-point resolution to Pakistan’s prime minister
 Papuans seek Vatican probe into deaths of churchmen
 Christian leaders upset by Indian judge’s comments
 Hong Kong priest decries government oppression
 Pope Francis blesses 6,000 rosaries, gifts to console Syrian families
 Racist video, threats at South Carolina Catholic school
 Priests are under-compensated in southern Africa, bishops’ official warns
 LCWR president challenges notion that declining number of sisters is ‘somehow bad’
 Myanmar fighting forces people to take shelter at churches, monasteries
 Flood of claims emerges as NY suspends its statute of limitations on child sex abuse
 Missionary sisters in Mali persevere in service amid rising tensions, insecurity
 In book preface, Pope Francis gives boost to popular movements

Released Monday, Aug. 19

 ‘Imagining leadership in a global community’ is theme of LCWR keynote address
 Analyst sees population bust, demographic decline
 Court temporarily enjoins New Jersey’s assisted suicide law
 PA bishop: ‘It is hard to say what reality is worse: the priests who abused children or the leaders who failed to protect them’
 Retired Albany bishop denies abuse allegations, steps back from ministry role
 Capuchin priest found guilty of sexually abusing girls
 Illinois bishop issues pastoral reflection on gun violence
 Ukrainian Catholic leader rules out ‘appeasement’ as fighting flares again
 Church must be prudent judging Medjugorje apparitions, Vatican official says
 Hanoi denies medical care to jailed Catholic activist
 Pope sends video message to new abuse prevention center in Chile
 ‘Mary walks with us, struggles with us,’ Pope says in message to Paris
 Pope sends well wishes to Communion and Liberation’s Rimini meeting
 Pope, in letter, praises ‘Pope Francis Hospital Ship’ initiative in Amazon
 Cardinal Bo: Myanmar is in desperate need of love, justice, mercy
 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church officially ceases to exist
 Iraqi Christians fear appointment of Muslim clerics as voting members of nation’s highest court
 Welcome the fire of God’s love, Pope Francis tells pilgrms

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