The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for a young Italian wife and mother who avoided inducing a premature birth and invasive treatment for cancer while she was pregnant.
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Adoptive parents nervous after raids of Missionaries of Charity homes
Navya is one of the four babies whose fate became entangled in the recent child trafficking scandal broke at Rachi’s Nirmal Hriday (Tender Heart) home, run by the Missionaries of Charity. A five-member district child welfare committee decided it was not fair for the foster mother and the child to be separated for long and ruled they should be united conditionally.
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How Catholic organizations are preventing migrant deaths
In the Sonoran Desert northeast of Ajo, temperatures can soar to mid-90s in late spring and above 100 degrees in the summer. This also is where hundreds of unfortunate migrants have taken their last breath.
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Sudanese bishop: Despite being many tribes, people are, first of all, Nuba
After watching for years as newly independent South Sudan has succumbed to civil war fought largely along ethnic lines, displacing one-third of the population, church leaders in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan are working hard to ensure that their small enclave of liberated territory will not go the way of its neighbors to the south.
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Borders pose challenge for Catholic Church in Amazon basin
On a Sunday night in early July, four men — two of them indigenous — were brutally murdered in Assis, a tiny Brazilian town on the border with Peru.
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Pulled from the sea, migrant’s rescue puts spotlight on Italian policy
Tweeting with hashtags that translate as “Closed ports” and “Open hearts,” Italy’s interior minister disputed claims that the Italian government was complicit in leaving a migrant to die in the Mediterranean Sea as she clung to a board from a destroyed fishing boat.
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Chicago Archdiocese hosts training in immigrant-to-immigrant peer ministry
Delegates came to learn about the parish-based, immigrant-to-immigrant peer ministry that began in the archdiocese 10 years ago. Leaders now want to create a national network of dioceses that use Pastoral Migratoria.
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‘Prosperity gospel’ props up policies lacking compassion, journal says
The “prosperity gospel” that U.S. President Donald Trump and many of his advisers and followers seem to espouse does not promote solidarity for the common good, but sees God as giving his blessings to the rich and punishing the poor, said an influential Jesuit journal.
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Religion scholars aid theology student arrested for protesting a white supremacist
Theologians, religion scholars and activists have rushed to aid a theology student arrested while protesting a white supremacist’s appearance in Charlottesville, Va., raising money for his legal fees and calling his demonstration against racism a “model” of “scholar-activism.”
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How Catholic groups are helping reunite separated children
Some of migrant children under age 5 separated from their families by the government were reunited with loved ones July 9 with help from Catholic organizations.