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Stories for week of April 28, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 3

 Pope denounces economy aimed at unbridled growth
 Papal messages to Bulgaria, North Macedonia precede apostolic visit
 Pope says he wants to visit native Argentina
 Attorney general investigating how LA archdiocese handled abuse complaints
 Trump administration bolsters ‘conscience rights’ in health care
 Survey: US Muslims twice as likely as Catholics to describe their religion as important in their lives
 In India, charges against a Catholic bishop a victory for abused nuns
 Former House Speaker Paul Ryan to teach at University of Notre Dame
 Study finds 23 million females are missing because of sex-selective abortion
 +Father Giovanni Zimbaldi, PIME, 89
 Church attacked by Maduro loyalists after Mass, Venezuelan bishop says
 Sri Lanka cardinal scraps plan to resume Sunday Masses
 Papal trip to Bulgaria, North Macedonia seen as opportunity for ‘big things in small packages’
 Papal prayers, best wishes for Japan’s new emperor
 Video released for Pope’s monthly prayer intention
 Marathon record-holder Keitany meets with Pope
 Pope encourages workers’ rights activist in work for social justice
 Pope Francis concerned about growing threat of ‘conflictual nationalism,’ nuclear war
 Bishops applaud Trump administration’s new conscience-protection regulations

Released Thursday, May. 2

 Bolivian cardinal endorses re-election campaign of socialist President Morales
 Georgia’s attorney general investigating clerical abuse charges
 Washington Catholic hospitals settle suit charging them with failure to provide charity care
 Priest’s suicide draws attention to clerical sexual abuse in Ivory Coast
 Indian Christians seek better security at churches
 Vatican diplomat: Include women peacekeepers, victims of violence in UN peace efforts
 Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical
 Abuse activists praise Argentina, press Pope on fight against clergy abuse
 Sri Lanka cardinal announces May 5 reopening of churches
 El Paso bishop, in congressional testimony, calls for humane treatment of asylum seekers
 Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing most Jews in decades
 In Western European countries with church taxes, support for the tradition remains strong
 Pope, at general audience, prays for the unemployed
 Bishops of Uruguay, Argentina mark Labor Day
 Jewish scholar at Vanderbilt joins editorial staff of Vatican women’s magazine

Released Wednesday, May. 1

 Sri Lanka: ordination Mass takes place despite threats
 German court issues injunction against film on priests using sex slaves
 Islamic State sowing terror worldwide, warns Iraqi prelate
 US commission on religious freedom calls special attention to Chinese violations
 ‘Lead us not into temptation’ is theme of Pope’s general audience
 Bishops should ‘clearly defend inconvenient truths of the Gospel,’ Bishop Olmsted says
 Moscow Patriarch issues Easter message
 Buffalo priests removed from ministry following seminarian complaints
 In US, bishops engage in dialogue with Muslims, Pentecostals, Anglicans
 Archdiocese of New York names 120 priests accused of sex abuse
 Abortions decline, IVF on the rise in Russia
 Bulgarian Catholics ‘very happy’ about upcoming papal visit
 Church in Latin America faces crises from without and within
 US commission names 16 ‘egregious’ violators of religious freedom
 Bishops warn against scams targeting Filipino Catholics
 Cardinal Ranjith slams government over Easter Sunday bombings
 Make room in your life for the Holy Spirit, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 French bishops publish document: ‘What is man that You think of him?’
 Islamic State leader: Sri Lanka attack was revenge for Syria
 Pope’s May prayer intention: ‘The Church in Africa, a seed of unity’

Released Tuesday, Apr. 30

 Chinese police demolish crosses on Catholic church
 Ecumenical Patriarch delivers Easter greeting to newly independent Ukrainian Church
 In open letter, scholars charge Pope with heresy
 Financial charges against Indian cardinal based on forgery, police find
 Computer hackers steal $1.75 million from Ohio parish
 Vatican women’s magazine to resume publication in May
 Communist authorities to evaluate priests in Chinese province
 Hindu radical leader calls for the forced sterilization of India’s Christians and Muslims
 Damascus archbishop: Syria reduced to misery by the war and the embargo
 Pope’s reform of Curia is essentially spiritual, secretary of Council of Cardinals says
 Jordan’s prime minister offers Easter greetings to Christians
 Retired Patriarch: ‘Two are absent from Jerusalem, God and man’
 On ILO’s 100th anniversary, Vatican diplomat emphasizes work’s importance
 Leading Mexican prelate: ‘We are going through a stage of crisis and great difficulty’
 As Sudanese protesters demand democracy, Catholic bishop pushes for freedom of worship
 No Mass for Sri Lanka’s Catholics; no veils for Muslim women
 Caritas asks Venezuelan government to allow humanitarian aid
 Togo’s president meets with Pope
 Indigenous religious ‘healers’ promise false HIV cures, Angolan prelate warns
 USCCB president deplores California synagogue shooting, offers prayers

Released Monday, Apr. 29

 East Timor arrests ex-priest on abuse charges, months after laicization
 Indian archbishop asks apology for politician’s anti-Christian rhetoric
 Pope cautions hairdressers against gossip
 Vatican says ‘alleged ideological neutrality’ threatens religious freedom
 Jihadists attack Christians in Burkina Faso; 6 dead
 1 week after Easter Sunday blasts, prayers held near iconic Sri Lanka church
 Poles celebrate 5th anniversary of canonization of St. John Paul II
 $500,000 in aid from the Pope to assist migrants in Mexico
 ‘Reproductive health’ does not include abortion, Vatican diplomat says at UN
 ‘Strength in Hope’ is theme of US bishops’ Religious Freedom Week
 ‘Argentina’s Romero,’ 3 more casualties of ‘Dirty War’ beatified
 New Philippine shrine should be center of missionary outreach, Pope says
 Papal prayer for victims of South Africa floods
 The Risen Christ brings peace, joy, and mission, Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope appeals for safe passage for refugees from Libyan detention centers
 Pontifical academy examines ‘growing threat of nationalist revival’
 Cardinal, 100 Roman priests visit Moscow
 Care for environment and infrastructure, Pope tells Italy’s provincial leaders
 Pope encourages Korean dialogue on summit anniversary

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