For the single women in New Delhi’s Chin community, harassment is part of daily life.
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Conclave’s Key Issues?
As the Roman Catholic Church begins, at this writing, a conclave to elect a new pope, Catholics in the United States tend to view the scandal over sexual abuse by members of the clergy as the most important problem facing their church today. According to a nationwide survey conducted by the Pew Rese
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Archdiocesan Agencies, Buildings Consolidated
Some buildings on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., will close.
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Immigration Reform Efforts Funded
The grants are a “distinctively Catholic contribution” in promoting comprehensive reform.
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The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine will meet with the nation’s theological societies on March 16 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. • Three Republican House members on March 5 introduced a bill to protect the conscience rights of health care workers and e
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Iraq: Renewed Fears of Sectarian Conflict
Car bombings and sectarian tension generated a sense of renewed crisis in Iraq during February.
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Defending the Ati
The Philippine island of Boracay is a tourist paradise; it is also the scene of abuse and violence suffered by its indigenous people, the Ati. The church in the Philippines is by their side to defend their rights and perhaps protect their very existence, said Bishop Sergio Utleg, president of the Ph
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U.N. Asserts Immunity Against Cholera Claims
The United Nations has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from victims of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times. Citing a convention laid down in 1946 that offers immunity from such legal claims, U.N. Secret
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Indonesia: Religious Minorities Threatened
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. The report documents government failure to confront militant groups, whose harassment and assaults on houses of worship and me
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News Briefs
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia was named apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh on Feb. 28, temporarily replacing Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned on Feb. 18 and then dramatically acknowledged on March 3 that he was guilty of sexual misconduct throughout his c