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Stories for week of October 27, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Nov. 1

 CWN closed for All Saints Day

Released Thursday, Oct. 31

 Tehran frees 7 political prisoners, including Christian convert
 1st public priestly ordination in 70 years in China
 Vatican diplomat reaffirms Holy See’s opposition to ‘legalizing drug use as a means to fight drug addiction’
 US commission alarmed over systematic church closures in Algeria
 Fired Indianapolis Catholic school counselor files lawsuit
 Lebanon’s Maronite bishops call for unity as prime minister resigns
 Some Kenyan prelates, physicians express concern about vaccination campaign
 Vatican cardinal calls on faithful to ‘run to the confessional,’ gain indulgences in early November
 Pope issues appeal for ‘beloved Iraq’
 Vatican Secretary of State says he will shed light on ‘opaque’ London property buy
 Cardinal Becciu rejects charges in Vatican probe
 USCCB: prelate urges nation’s faithful to pray for end of California fires
 Madonna statue returned by Britons to Argentina at Vatican
 Bishop Schneider condemns Pachamama statue as ‘new golden calf’

Released Wednesday, Oct. 30

 Judge blocks Alabama law restricting abortion
 Biden’s diocese rejects ‘politicizing the Eucharist’
 ‘Demonic sacrilege’: Brazilian bishop condemns Vatican gardens’ ‘Pachamama’ ritual
 Despite al-Baghdadi’s death, ISIS remains a major threat in Southeast Asia
 German bishops publish statutes for ‘synodal journey’
 Cardinal Dolan discusses priestly celibacy, abuse scandal
 Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support ‘green economy’
 The Rosary ‘represents our non-violent resistance’ to tyranny, Hong Kong bishop says
 Mexican priest who runs shelter extorted, later attacked
 Archbishop Chaput sees ‘safe’ drug injection sites as ‘dose of despair’
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us’
 Christian hope is like the air we breathe, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Vatican spokesman, responding to concerns about synod, emphasizes that doctrine develops
 Italian bishops’ agency’s prayer to Pachamama originated in South America

Released Tuesday, Oct. 29

 Texas court: police must return documents to Dallas diocese
 British abuse inquiry raps approach of Vatican, English cardinal
 Biden denied Communion because of abortion advocacy
 Irish bishop warns against yoga in schools
 Nigerian bishop reflects on Europe’s secularization
 Maronite patriarch speaks out against Hezbollah’s ‘red lines’ in Lebanon
 Vatican diplomat calls for protection of rights of unborn, expresses ‘deep concern’ about sex education
 Turkish forces doing ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing in northeast Syria, advocate warns
 Report warns: Christianity may disappear from Syria and Iraq
 San Diego bishop supports synod call to study diaconate for women
 USCCB grants $9.9M to home mission dioceses
 In the struggle between good and evil, choose salvation, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Christians, Jews, Muslims sign interfaith statement rejecting euthanasia
 Brownback shares ambitions of $25M campaign to protect holy sites
 Italian bishops’ agency published prayer to Pachamama

Released Monday, Oct. 28

 Police warn to pickpocketing surge at Lourdes
 No longer ‘secret’—Pope renames Vatican archives
 Schedule set for Pope’s November trip to Thailand, Japan
 280 sex abuse claims in Guam
 Bishop Bransfield secretly sent money from Church hospital to Cardinal Farrell in Rome
 Washington Post criticizes Vatican for delay in McCarrick report
 Vatican diplomat calls for protection of migrant women, action against human trafficking
 ‘Avoid further bloodshed,’ Chile’s bishops plead
 Pontifical academy hosts Amazonian governors’ summit
 ‘To be servants of Our Lady, of hope’: Pope addresses Servite Order
 Pachamama images reappear at synod’s closing session
 Pope encourages faithful to pray the Rosary
 Amazon synod’s final document calls for married priests and discussion of female deacons
 In synod’s closing address, Pope reflects on cultural, ecological, social, and pastoral challenges
 Pope appeals for Lebanon amid widespread protests
 The cry of the poor and the earth reaches us from the Amazon, Pope tells pilgrims
 Preaching on prayer of Pharisee, tax collector, and poor person, Pope closes Amazon synod

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