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Stories for week of November 04, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Nov. 9

 Pope and Assyrian patriarch decry oppression of Christians in Middle East
 Chinese ‘underground’ bishop taken into police custody
 French bishops announce independent commission on sexual abuse
 1st native bishop ordained in Solomon Islands
 Syriac Orthodox Church opens university
 Parishes in China pay tribute to the elderly
 Vatican newspaper highlights UN report on food loss, waste
 In Uganda, Catholics protest as archbishop asks government to enforce tithe
 Vatican Christmas stamps feature Milan inmate’s art
 Catholic agencies closely monitor giving after clergy sex abuse shock
 USCCB president renews call for ‘reasonable gun measures’ following California mass shooting
 Church, aid groups sound alarm over humanitarian crisis in Yemen
 Pope, at weekday Mass, warns against murmuring, reflects on importance of witness
 Asia Bibi in an undisclosed location in Pakistan following release
 Gunmen abduct 4 priests in Nigeria
 Pope Francis receives Danish royal couple
 Romanian, Moldovan bishops meet with Pope

Released Thursday, Nov. 8

 American religious brother among new martyrs recognized by Vatican
 Diocese will not pay defense costs of bishop accused of rape
 Cardinal Parolin: bones found under nunciature not connected with missing girl’s case
 Trump administration widens conscience protection for contraceptive mandate
 Asia Bibi released from prison, waits to leave Pakistan safely
 Lack of access to clean water is ‘great shame’ for 21st-century humanity, Pope says in message
 Leading Argentine bishop warns: evil spirit is trying to divide bishops
 Pope Francis will visit North Korea if Pyongyang issues formal invitation
 ‘Let us build the evangelical peace that excludes no one,’ Pope says in video
 Take ‘great precaution’ in using nuclear energy, Holy See diplomat says at UN
 Massachusetts voters uphold law prohibiting ‘discrimination based on gender identity’
 West Virginia voters approve pro-life state constitutional amendment
 Alabama voters affirm sanctity of unborn life
 Florida: voters, bishops agreed on gambling amendment, felons’ voting rights
 Cameroon kidnapping: joy as freed students returned to parents
 Christian-Taoist dialogue on ethics affirms 7 points
 Cardinal O’Brien reflects on work of Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Released Wednesday, Nov. 7

 National Review Board chairman wants to tighten Dallas protocols
 Cardinal O’Malley to head Papal Foundation
 Italy promises help for Asia Bibi
 Vatican cautioning US bishops not to invite Cardinal Burke?
 US, Mexican bishops join in Mass on border for immigrants
 Guam archdiocese will file for bankruptcy
 Pope discusses Seventh Commandment, universal destination of goods
 Persevere in fight against child sexual abuse, Pope tells French bishops
 India’s bishops issue message for Diwali
 Jesus invites us to the banquet of the Kingdom, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Indian nun honored for service to destitute women
 Increasing fear reported among foreign missionaries in Philippines
 Human rights, social outreach at the center of Indonesian bishops’ assembly
 Beatification process begins for young man martyred during Lebanon’s civil war
 Philippine cardinal retires
 82 students, staff abducted from Christian school in Cameroon
 Over 100 windows smashed at Irish church
 Over 200 mass graves discovered in territory once controlled by ISIS
 Asia Bibi’s family appeals for help from President Trump, Prime Minister May
 Canadian diocese wins lawsuit against insurance company that refused coverage for payments to abuse victims

Released Tuesday, Nov. 6

 Turkey: priest’s convicted assassin shot by police
 World Day of Peace theme: politics in service of peace
 EU bishops’ social commission reflects on future of work
 Dalit Christians suffer discrimination in Church as well as society, priest says
 India: Missionaries of Charity to register all its children’s homes with state governments
 Bishops back Philippine workers’ demand for higher minimum wage
 Pope, in weekday Mass homily, warns against selfish ambition and conceit
 Pakistani cathedral rector advises Catholics against discussing other religions
 Nepal: 4 Christians arrested on ‘forced conversion’ charges
 ‘Failure at the top’: US bishops failed to police themselves
 Pope recalls Holocaust, deplores anti-Semitism
 Paraguay’s president, Pope Francis discuss the family, poverty, corruption
 Pope, in video message to youth, reflects on identity
 Catholics, Taoists discuss ethics
 A Habsburg with a Twitter account: an interview with Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican
 Vatican Secretary of State, South Korean president speak about peace in Korea

Released Monday, Nov. 5

 Four ‘underground’ Chinese priests arrested
 Bishop Malone defends himself amid calls for resignation
 Ukrainian president, Orthodox Patriarch in accord on self-government
 Copts vow to continue services
 Cardinal Brandmüller laments ‘almost epidemic’ homosexual influence in clergy
 Leading African cardinal retires
 Church desecrated in French Guiana
 Report: Christians flee Henan to escape persecution
 Pakistan’s government caves in to hardline Islamists, prevents Asia Bibi from leaving country
 Caritas criticizes Austria for withdrawing from global migration pact
 Iran urges Pope Francis not to be indifferent to US sanctions
 Yemen war needs ceasefire, not the world’s silence, says bishop
 Pope offers All Souls’ Day Mass at Roman cemetery chapel
 Injustice toward migrants, refugees takes place with complicit silence, Pope says in message
 Pope Francis celebrates Mass for deceased cardinals, bishops
 ISIS terrorists attack Coptic Christian pilgrims; at least 11 killed
 Link between love of God and love of neighbor is inseparable, Pope tells pilgrims
 Italian nun beatified in Rome
 ‘Listening to reality’: Vatican newspaper’s editorial on Synod of Bishops

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