Stories for week of December 27, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jan. 1

 Background: World Day of Peace 2021

Released Thursday, Dec. 31

 Lawmakers in Paraguay mourn Argentina’s legalization of abortion
 ‘Underground’ Bishop Andrew Han JIngtao dead at 99
 After abortion is legalized in Argentina, bishops decry chasm between politicians and the people
 Nigerian archbishop denies report that abducted bishop is dead
 Nuns who work for Vatican mission in Hong Kong arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church
 Gloria Purvis’ radio show ‘Morning Glory’ pulled from EWTN’s airwaves
 Indonesia’s new religious affairs minister calls for interfaith respect, esteem
 New apostolic letter brings transparency to Vatican finances, APSA president says
 Guatemalan cardinal, El Paso bishop call on Biden to change US policy toward Central America
 Papal appeal for assistance for quake-stricken Croatia
 20 missionaries killed worldwide in 2020
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on prayer and thanksgiving
 US archbishop, nuncio to Switzerland, announces retirement
 Pope will not preside at New Year’s Eve Te Deum, January 1 Mass in St. Peter’s

Released Wednesday, Dec. 30

 Brazil’s Benedictines grapple with slaveholding past
 Man who killed Catholic roommate for praying at hospital to be arraigned on murder, hate crime charges
 Christmas trees burned in front of two Israeli Christian churches
 Government ban on new students may force leading English Catholic prep school to close
 Argentina’s Senate approves bill to legalize abortion
 Leading German bishop urges shift on women’s ordination, homosexuality
 Chile’s bishops deplore legislature’s approval of euthanasia
 Desire to control natural resources is root of Islamist insurgency, Mozambique bishop says
 Nigerian bishop blasts nation’s president, denies calling for coup
 President Trump recalls 850th anniversary of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom
 Church bells in NY, Brooklyn, Boston dioceses to toll in memory of Covid victims
 New Vatican document calls for ‘equitable and universal access’ to Covid vaccine

Released Tuesday, Dec. 29

 Former Steubenville diocese comptroller sentenced to prison for tax crimes, embezzlement
 Historic Indianapolis church vandalized
 Nigerian bishop kidnapped; police launch rescue operation
 1st native bishop appointed for Barbados
 USCCB committee chairman praises Covid relief package
 Middle East Catholic patriarchs urge Christmas hope amid despair
 ‘Among the oldest mosaics in Christianity’: experts restoring Rome’s first baptistery
 Papal condolences on death of Father Reginald Foster
 The ‘pandemic of indifference and fear’ kills the soul, Angolan bishop warns
 Bishop Dermot Farrell appointed Archbishop of Dublin

Released Monday, Dec. 28

 Pope formally removes funds from Secretariat of State
 Belarus archbishop, back from exile, calls for unity
 Indonesian seminarian found slain
 People with disabilities were denied care In Oregon hospitals at beginning of pandemic
 Interfaith leaders warn against ‘vaccine nationalism’
 Father Reginald Foster dies at 81; served 4 popes as Vatican’s foremost Latin authority
 Slovakia gives 4,000 Covid test kits to Pope
 Over 40 pro-life leaders call on Senate to reject Biden’s nominee to head HHS
 Chad’s bishops, in Christmas message, call for a new society
 ‘Amoris Laetitia Family’ year to begin March 19
 The Holy Family is the model and inspiration for all families, Pope says on feast day
 Pope Francis: Be witnesses to Jesus, as St. Stephen was
 Be filled with the hope of Christ: papal message to Taizé youth meeting

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