Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.
Religious Freedom
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Pennsylvania order asks Supreme Court to uphold its religious rights
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether their religious freedom rights were violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline through its land.
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Ethnic minority army expels eight priests, nuns, teachers from Myanmar
Catholic clergy and laypeople have been expelled from Myanmar’s northern Shan state by a China-backed ethnic minority army.
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Iraq diary: Drinking sweet tea in West Mosul
Sunni Muslims who have returned to the gray dusty ruin of West Mosul, Iraq, to start over, but most Christians are convinced that is impossible to ever return to live here.
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Traces of ISIS might be disappearing but the Yazidi continue to suffer
Few Yazidi families have been able to escape from temporary shelters in Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. Their home villages have not been swept for mines and booby traps left behind when ISIS was dislodged.
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Despite China-Vatican agreement, many Chinese worry about religious freedom
The provisional agreement between the Vatican and Beijing gives no assurance the government will curb its recent crackdown on religious practice, which includes unprecedented control over Muslims and Buddhists.
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A new kindergarten breathes life into a devastated Iraq community
Qaraqosh’s wary residents who fled ISIS have returned to a city in near ruin, but there are signs of renewed life, including a kindergarten sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service.
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Discovering Mother Mary in northern Iraq after ISIS
Christians in northern Iraq try to rebuild their lives after the defeat of ISIS, but the terror of being driven from their homes is not easily forgotten.
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Conference celebrates ‘partnership’ between Reagan, St. John Paul II
Reagan started weeping upon watching film footage of St. John Paul’s triumphant return to Poland in 1979.
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Source: China and the Vatican to sign historic agreement by end of September
A Vatican source confirmed that a high-level Holy See delegation will travel to the Chinese capital for the signing and that a date has already been fixed for this ground-breaking event.