While reiterating that the killings must stop, the bishops warned that the leaders did not know how to make peace, were confused, traumatized and feared peace.
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Rev. Graham’s 1967 visit to Catholic college recalled as historic event
A Baptist preacher had never before been invited to speak at a Catholic institution.
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UN speakers decry detention for vulnerable migrant, refugee children
U.N. agencies estimate more than 65 million people are currently stateless or forcibly displaced from their countries and 51 percent of them are children.
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Chilean abuse victims give testimony to Vatican investigators
The victims gave their testimony to another official after the original Vatican envoy had emergency surgery.
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Parkland students arrive in Florida capital to urge action on gun reform
The afternoon shooting spree Feb. 14 at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County left at 17 people dead and at least 14 injured.
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No phantom threads in upcoming ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibit in New York
The sectarian will meet the secular in an unusual way with the May 10 debut of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”
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Vatican judge accused of possessing child pornography accepts plea deal
The judge resigned his position on the Vatican tribunal.
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Nearly 50,000 people were baptized in China last year
Fides, the organization that published the data, said it is “an invitation and a call” to evangelize.
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Vatican sex abuse investigator hospitalized in Chile
Scicluna entered the hospital Tuesday after beginning his interviews with victims.
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Rev. Billy Graham, known as ‘America’s Pastor,’ dies at 99
More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the U.S.