A 75-year-old Swiss priest, the Rev. Xavier Arbex, who has lived and worked in Peru for over 40 years, has said that little has changed since Pope Francis’ visit a year ago. The priest has decried the abuse done to people as well as the environment.
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Religious leaders hope C.A.R. peace deal will end church and mosque attacks
Religious leaders hope the latest peace deal will bring an end to attacks on churches and mosques.
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Archbishop Gomez calls for ‘new humanism’ amid troubled times
“As I see it, this problem is rooted in our society’s broader loss of the awareness of God,” the archbishop said.
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Judge allows survey of church property for border wall construction
Mary McCord, lead counsel for the Diocese of Brownsville, said there’s no reason to believe that the area where federal officials want to build the wall near the chapel is of particular importance or shows heightened activity that would make it crucial to U.S. security.
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Trump defends rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast
President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.
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U.S. nuns urge changes to church structure to address abuse
The largest association of religious sisters in the United States called Thursday for an overhaul of the male-led leadership structure of the Catholic Church.
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Does God want religious diversity? Abu Dhabi text raises questions
That many religions exist in the world is a fact, but what that plurality communicates to believers about God is a question that theologians are still discussing.
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Likelihood of two-state solution in Middle East dimming, say two clergy
According to Father Elias Mallon, a Franciscan Friar who is the external affairs officer of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the likelihood of a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears ever unlikely.
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Child sex abuse is ‘a serious and pervasive’ issue in U.S.
In a new series on child sexual abuse called “Children at Risk,” the Catholic News Service reports on how extensive the abuse is in the United States and particularly in the Catholic Church.
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A new ‘season’ in the church calls for a pastoral conversion of bishops
The bishop said he believed that the current revelations are being used by the Holy Spirit to open the church “to a fuller understanding of ecclesiology that began over a half century ago.”