Dozens Drown as Large Ferry Sinks Off Philippines
Loading the Audio Player... A passenger ship carrying 359 people sank just off the coast of Baluk-Baluk Island in the southern Philippines, Philippine Coast Guard. Rescuers pulled...
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Pastors celebrate first Hispanic Missions Sunday on mission field | Baptist Press
As Southern Baptists were observing the first Hispanic Missions Sunday, three Hispanic pastors and their wives were on mission with the International Mission Board in Spain.
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Father Gregor Pawlowski, Jewish Holocaust survivor and Catholic priest, laid to rest in Poland
Father Gregor Pawlowski died in Israel Oct. 21 at the age of 90, but he wanted his body to be buried in Poland alongside his Jewish family and other victims of the Holocaust.
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‘We Just Want Justice’: 12-Year-Old Pakistani Christian Girl Kidnapped by Muslim Man
The parents of a 12-year-old Christian girl, who was abducted from Pakistan's Punjab province earlier this month by a Muslim man, fear that she will be forced to marry her captor and convert to Islam.
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‘It Was Intense Fighting’: Catholic Cathedral Shelled Twice by Myanmar Military in Past 5 Months
As fighting between Myanmar's security forces continue, Catholic churches and convents in the northeastern Shan state have become primary targets.
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Pastor Slain for Refusing to Remove Church Building – Morningstar News
Saying a church pastor would “face the wrath from Allah” for refusing to remove his church building, Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda on Oct. 26 killed him on his animals’ grazing fields, sources said.
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Polish, Israeli govts condemn antisemitic display in Poland | Crux
Crux,Israeli and Polish government officials on Saturday condemned an antisemitic incident involving Polish nationalists chanting “Death to Jews” on Poland’s Independence Day this week.
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Priests differ on call to arms in violence-torn Mexico state | Crux
Crux,Even for the violence-wracked Mexican state of Michoacan, it was surprising when a priest called from the pulpit for parishioners to arm themselves against warring drug gangs.
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Pope Francis: ‘This world will pass away and only love will remain’
When one is faced with an important difficult decision, Pope Francis’ advice is to imagine standing before Christ at the “threshold of eternity” because that is what ultimately matters.
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Myanmar military shells Catholic cathedral for second time in 5 months
Myanmar’s security forces shelled a Catholic cathedral in the northeastern Shan state for the second time in five months as they continue to fight local militias, targeting Catholic churches and convents and displacing more than 10,000 people.
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Pope Francis on World Day of the Poor: Be ‘tireless builders of hope’ amid suffering
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of 2,000 people living in poverty and the volunteers who assist them.
