The most powerful cyclone to hit eastern India and Bangladesh in more than 20 years tore down homes, carried cars down flooded streets and inundated farmland.
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Pro-lifers say Planned Parenthood must return $80 million in PPP funds
Pro-Life organizations are taking exception to the fact that Planned Parenthood affiliates have been recipients of funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
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Templeton winner’s ‘every waking moment’ focused on efforts to cure COVID
Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the Human Genome Project–and who is a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences–has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Templeton Prize.
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Bishops call for end to surrogacy as pandemic strands newborns in Ukraine
Ukrainian Catholic bishops are calling for an end to the practice of commercial surrogacy as dozens of babies are left stranded and not claimed by foreign adoptive parents because of the pandemic.
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German bishops reject COVID-19 ‘conspiracy theories’ by prominent clergy
Conspiracy theories regarding coronavirus being espoused by prominent clergymen like Cardinal Gerhard Muller and Archbishop Carlo Vigano have been rejected not only by fellow bishops but by lay Catholics as well.
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75 years after end of World War II in Europe, German church leaders urge peace
World War II in Europe ended on May 7, 1945, with the unconditional surrender of the German Reich. The official celebration is normally marked May 8.
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Maronites plan help as Lebanese families slide into poverty
Nearly 50% of Lebanese are living below the poverty line, and unemployment has reached 35% of the working population, according to the government.
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Three U.S. bishops condemn racism in context of coronavirus pandemic
The bishops said they find these actions unacceptable and called on Catholics, fellow Christians and all people of goodwill to help them combat such acts of racism and xenophobia.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sees church threatened by pseudo-humanism
The retired Pope Benedict said: “Modern society is in the process of formulating an anti-Christian creed, and resisting this creed is punished by social excommunication.”
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Newsom urged to provide more funds to immigrants, workers during pandemic
The Callifornia Catholic Bishops Conference has urged Governor Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants and low-wage residents in California while the pandemic is ongoing.