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October 27, 2014

Vol. 211 / No. 12

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Signs Of the Times
Tim PadgettOctober 15, 2014

This year has seen a remarkable spike in the number of Cubans arriving in South Florida.

Signs Of the Times

Captors released a Franciscan priest who was among about 20 Christians kidnapped from a Syrian village near the border with Turkey. Father Hanna Jallouf was being held under house arrest in a religious residence in Knayeh, a small Christian village in northwestern Syria, according to a statement on

CHRISTIAN EXODUS. A boy and his family take refuge near St. Eliyah Church in Erbil on Aug. 26.
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In a blunt assessment of the Iraqi government’s response to the suffering of Christians from the northern Nineveh province, a leading Chaldean Catholic bishop said, “Our people have been abandoned.”The Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, blasted both the Iraqi government an

Malala Yousafzai at Girl Summit 2014
Signs Of the Times

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Oct. 10 to Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, heroic advocates for children’s rights, especially the right to education. • In the Maiduguri Diocese in northeastern Nigeria, nearly 200 churches have been destroyed or razed by B

Father of missing student displays photo in Mexico
Signs Of the Times

The disappearance of 43 students has sparked soul-searching among many Mexicans.

SYNODAL STROLL. Cardinals and bishops leave the Oct. 9 morning session at the Vatican.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellOctober 15, 2014

One of the Vatican’s top canon lawyers at the Synod of Bishops on the Family says the current process for the annulment of marriages in the Catholic Church could be streamlined and expanded to the benefit of many people whose marriages have broken down.Cardinal Francis Coccopalmerio of Italy s

Pope Paul VI featured at his desk in the Vatican.
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On sexual and medical ethics, participants at the Synod of Bishops on the Family are giving emphasis to the concept of “graduality,” a way of thinking about morality that allows for human imperfection without compromising ideals. On the Synod’s first working day, Oct. 6, Cardinal P