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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New Zealand Catholic Church welcomes Royal Commission hearings on schools | Crux
Crux,The Catholic Church in New Zealand welcomed a Nov. 3 announcement by the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care that it had scheduled six days in February for hearings on evidence of abuse at two Catholic-run schools.
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PHOTOS: 10th annual Traditional Latin Mass pilgrimage to Rome
The Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage took place on Oct. 29-31.
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East Timor Bishop do Nascimento dies, receives country’s highest honor | Crux
Crux,East Timor President Francisco Guterres has awarded the country’s highest honor to the late Bishop Basilio do Nascimento of Baucau, who died Oct. 30 at Nacional Guido Valadares Hospital following a heart attack. He was 71.
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Pope Francis asks Catholics to pray in November for people suffering depression
The condition affects an estimated 280 million people worldwide.
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Many churchgoers prepared to open their homes to teens in the care system – study
Nearly half of churchgoers would be prepared to open their home up to a teenager in the care system as part of a supported lodging scheme, a study has found.
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Hindu Nationalist Mob Holds Christians against their Will – Morningstar News
Hours after a Hindu extremist mob assaulted and held more than 60 Christians against their will in central India under accusations of forcible conversion last month, police arrived but detained the Christians rather than the assailants, sources said.
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New report details experience of Christians detained in North Korea
‘When they were caught praying, they were beaten every morning for 20 consecutive days.’
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Pope Francis: ‘The supreme rule regarding fraternal correction is love’
The pope continued his catechetical cycle on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians.
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Reaching Youth for Christ During Sudan’s Coup
When the military closed Khartoum’s airport and disrupted their discipleship training, a generational odd couple from YFC Lebanon improvised and preached to hundreds of students.
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Palestinians Facing Eviction from Jerusalem Neighborhood Reject Israeli Court’s Compromise
The Palestinian families at the center of a legal battle over a controversial neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem rejected a compromise on Tuesday that would have delayed the threat of eviction for more than a decade.
