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Stories for week of January 19, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jan. 24

 President Trump’s speech highlights March for Life
 Vice President Pence meets Pope Francis
 NFL football team helped cover up abuse in Catholic Church?
 Abusive behavior a factor in decline of women’s religious orders: Vatican magazine
 In Iran, Christian convert receives 3-year prison sentence
 Church in Poland marks ‘Islam Day’
 Utah bans conversion therapy for minors
 Argentine bishop fires professor who posted Viganò text on Facebook
 Buffalo priest files defamation suit against accuser
 New research offers details on Catholic inmates at Auschwitz
 Missionary reports that Islamist violence is spreading fear among Niger’s Christians
 ‘No to new wars,’ bishops of 3 African nations plead
 Bolivia’s bishops call for democratic, transparent elections
 ‘Opening the way to the Scriptures’: Irish bishop issues pastoral letter for ‘Sunday of the Word of God’
 ‘Listen to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth,’ Cardinal Turkson says at Davos
 Vatican diplomat urges international community to ‘keep the flame of dialogue alive’ in the Middle East
 US bishops applaud administration measures to strengthen religious liberty
 Vatican conference focuses on pastoral care of the elderly
 Indian archbishop declares day of reparation after profanation of Blessed Sacrament

Released Thursday, Jan. 23

 International finance watchdog re-admits Vatican
 Joint statement by Benedict XVI, Cardinal Sarah censored by Vatican?
 Venezuelan priest killed by abuse victim, police report
 Cleveland bishop named new Archbishop of Philadelphia
 Chinese churches suspend Masses as deadly coronavirus spreads
 Taiwan president tells Pope of China’s religious persecution
 Could majority of Russians one day be Muslim?
 Maronite Patriarch calls on protesters to give new government a chance
 As numbers fall, Franciscans withdraw from 9 East Coast parishes
 Majority of Americans describe themselves as pro-choice, yet favor restrictions on abortion
 Study finds US bishops are satisfied with their life and ministry
 In US, conversions to Catholicism have fallen 46% since 2000
 Pope Francis offers greetings for Chinese New Year
 Islamic extremists kill Nigerian pastor, attack his hometown
 Supreme Court appears split on Montana’s ban on vouchers for religious schools
 President Trump proclaims National Sanctity of Human Life Day
 USCCB, Florida bishops seek new trial for death row inmate

Released Wednesday, Jan. 22

 Ecumenical Patriarch at Davos: ecology is most urgent challenge
 Spanish bishops adopt 3-year marriage-prep program
 French senate debates proposal to extend IVF funding to unmarried women
 Missing Venezuelan priest found dead
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on hospitality and Christian unity
 Blessed Sacrament desecrated during vandalism at Bangalore church
 Bishop Strickland says he asked Pope about McCarrick report
 Irish bishop offers to mediate among violent gangs
 ‘Provide basic services to migrants,’ Caritas urges nations at migration forum
 Cardinal Müller: Europe must imitate courageous witness of St. Agnes
 Schedule announced for February papal visit to Bari
 Pope names Harvard economist to pontifical academy
 Serve mothers in need, USCCB committee chairman says in Roe anniversary statement
 Planned Parenthood lost 400,000 individual donors last year
 ‘Faith and finance together’: Cardinal Turkson hosts Vatican roundtable at Davos
 ‘You can’t buy the Lord’s gifts,’ Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 ‘We are all members of the one human family,’ Pope emphasizes in message to World Economic Forum

Released Tuesday, Jan. 21

 More than 67,000 Austrian Catholics left the Church last year
 One Nigerian seminarian released, badly injured
 US bishops’ novena for life begins
 Claims against Notre Dame, federal government over contraceptive coverage move ahead
 Researchers ‘reconsider fetal pain’
 Duterte resumes attacks on Philippine bishops
 ‘Had the Church sidelined me earlier, I would have stopped earlier,’ notorious French ex-priest testifies
 Maronite patriarch slams Lebanese politicians responsible for country’s ‘shame and disgrace’
 Syro-Malabar bishops warn faithful against ‘love jihad’ conversions
 Nigerian bishops call for release of kidnapped seminarians
 As political tensions rise, Guinea’s bishops declare 3 days of prayer and fasting
 Pope Francis: The essence of life is our relationship with God
 Bishop Gumbleton: ‘Refuse cooperation with United States wars’
 CAFOD calls on UK to end ‘all forms of public support for fossil fuels overseas’
 ‘Defy the Apocalypse’: Influential Jesuit journal examines Pope’s view of global politics
 Recalling his family’s flight from Czechoslovakia, new cardinal emphasizes service to migrants, refugees
 Trust in God makes us free, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Cardinal Turkson urges World Economic Forum to address climate change
 Pope Francis decries ‘resurgent, barbaric’ anti-Semitism

Released Monday, Jan. 20

 Chinese bishop, in isolation since 2007, freed for holiday
 New scandal in Mexico rocks Legion
 Cardinal Dolan investigating complaint against Brooklyn’s Bishop DiMarzio
 Archbishop Vigano joins Munich protest of German ‘synodal path’
 Planned Parenthood announces record spending on election contests
 Mexican bishop urges charitable treatment of Honduran migrants
 Nigerian archbishop: country is ‘under siege’
 German political leader Schulz meets with Pope, discusses global politics
 Rome’s mayor meets with Pope
 As Xi visits Myanmar, bishops concerned about China-backed dam
 Churches critical in fighting human trafficking, members of Congress told
 Don’t follow Texas’ example on refugees, Miami archbishop urges
 German bishops welcome new organ transplant law
 John the Baptist invites us to turn to Christ, Pope Francis tells pilgrims
 English weekly sees upcoming Assisi meeting as ‘papal anti-Davos’
 Cardinal Farrell outlines Vatican’s vision for the Catholic charismatic renewal
 President Trump pays tribute to religious freedom
 Pope praises work of nurses, midwives
 In India, Jesuit human rights activist calls for civil disobedience against citizenship law
 Pope appeals for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Libya
 Pope encourages fishermen in their faith, work, ecological commitment

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