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Stories for week of August 12, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 17

 Ecumenical Patriarch: we desire ‘with all our heart’ the restoration of Ukrainian Orthodox unity
 Ukrainian Catholic leader recalls Soviet repression
 Australia senate defeats bill legalizing assisted suicide
 Myanmar’s persecuted Christians have been forgotten, Canadian journalist says
 Muslim clerics in Pakistan honor late Cardinal Tauran
 Vietnamese court jails Catholic activist for 20 years
 India’s bishops lament ‘unprecedented’ Kerala floods, pray for victims
 Roundup: bishops react to sexual abuse scandal
 Venezuela’s bishops decry grave violations of justice under Maduro regime
 Pennsylvania attorney general: lift statute of limitations for child sexual abuse
 Cardinal Burke: Church in US in ‘possibly the worst crisis that it’s ever experienced’
 Abortion advocate appointed to top UN human rights slot
 Wall Street Journal op-ed laments ‘the Catholic bishops who failed us’
 Boston cardinal cancels Ireland trip to focus on St. John’s Seminary investigation
 Vatican responds to Pennsylvania grand jury report, says Pope is on the side of the victims
 Former priest alleges Erie bishops ignored his abuse reports
 USCCB president announces effort to address ‘moral catastrophe’ of McCarrick scandal, PA grand jury report
 Colorado commission rules against cake baker following transgender complaint; baker files suit

Released Thursday, Aug. 16

 Indonesian bishops call for election date change
 Church in Pakistan calls for equal rights for members of all religions
 Indian Christian kidnapped, others threatened by Hindu radicals
 Another Catholic parish demolished in China
 Papal prayers for victims of bridge collapse
 Pope Francis pays tribute to St. Stanislaus Kostka
 Evangelical helps end Ethiopian Orthodox schism
 Chilean police conducts raid on bishops’ conference office
 Philosophers, theologians ask cardinals to address Pope’s ‘gravely scandalous’ Catechism revision
 Archdiocese creates, takes down website defending Cardinal Wuerl’s record on abuse
 Nebraska bishops called for prayer during prisoner’s execution
 Philippine president says he is no longer Catholic
 CNN op-ed: sex abuse scandal saps trust in the Church but not in Catholic teaching
 US bishops’ official ‘angry’ at abuse revelations
 Pope Francis: the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Assumption confirms our glorious destiny
 Pope appoints Venezuelan prelate as Sostituto
 USCCB president: we are ‘shamed and sorry’ for sins of priests and bishops
 Pennsylvania dioceses react to release of landmark grand jury report
 US Department of Labor issues directive on protecting religious freedom

Released Wednesday, Aug. 15

 More than 300 Pennsylvania priests abused over 1,000 minors since 1940s, landmark report finds

Released Tuesday, Aug. 14

 CWN closed for feast of the Assumption
 Abuse survivor decries home sentence for Australian archbishop
 Spokeswoman discusses preparations for World Meeting of Families
 Pakistan: blasphemy accusation draws mob to town’s only Christian street
 Abuse accusations bring scrutiny to McCarrick’s charity fund
 War is contagious, with negative impact on society, says South Sudan bishop
 Canadian bishops: ‘palliative care is not to include euthanasia or assisted suicide’
 Egyptian police thwart suicide attack at Coptic church
 Reconstruction of historic Syrian monastery nears completion
 Priests in Australian state would be forced to report abuse revealed in Confession under plan announced by senior Catholic lawmaker
 Filipinos welcome US vow to return historic church bells
 Nicaragua’s Cardinal Brenes laments death of protester
 Parents, students criticize Catholic school for placing employee in same-sex marriage on leave
 Turkey’s non-Muslim communities signed declaration out of fear, politician says
 LGBT group will not have stall at World Meeting of Families
 Chaldean Catholic bishops conclude weeklong synod

Released Monday, Aug. 13

 Thousands of Muslims in China protest against demolition of mosque
 Leading prelate sees Blessed Paul VI, Pope Francis as ‘contemplatives in action’
 Missouri bishop is ‘dismayed, disgusted, and numbed’ by McCarrick scandal
 Cardinal Wuerl seeks to clarify recent comments; says, ‘This is a very grave moment’
 Spanish Jesuit murdered in Peru
 Egyptian monk charged with murder of Coptic Orthodox bishop
 Papal praise, gratitude for Knights of Columbus
 Pope Francis meets with Chilean Abuse Prevention Council
 As Protestant churches in South Carolina dwindle, Catholic churches flourish
 Cameroon bishop says priest was murdered, not killed accidentally
 Hope overcomes misery, oppression, Pope tells young Italians at prayer vigil
 Pope Francis: shun evil, be ‘protagonists of the good’
 Denver Catholics recall 25th anniversary of World Youth Day
 Washington Post: ‘Francis’s track record in handling abuse is mixed’
 ‘Let Catholic adoption agencies be Catholic,’ says leading Southern Baptist

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