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Body of Armenian patriarch on path to possible sainthood returns to Lebanon

A large crowd gathered for the ceremony welcoming Patriarch Gregory Peter XV Agagianian's remains to Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Thursday, Sept 12, 2024. / Credit: Romy Haber/ACI Mena ACI MENA, Sep 15, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). On Thursday, Sept. 12, the...
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Priest urges Church in Nigeria to address needs of youth who are ‘returning to paganism’

Father Vitalis Anaehobi, who serves in the southesast region of Nigeria, says that most of the young people he has spoken to are grieved by “difficulties in life” such as poverty, unemployment, and “the failure by the Church to protect...

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Nigeria diocese appeals for help, prayers after thousands displaced by floods

Devasting flooding has hit the city of Maiduguri in northeastern...
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Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church reopens in the Holy Land, new altar dedicated

The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition cover the...
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Iraqi Christians are leaving their homeland once again

Erbil International Airport entry in Erbil, Iraq. / Credit: thomas...
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Staying in Bethlehem: Christian couple opts to marry and put down roots despite hardships

Sabeen Rahil and Elias Johny Al Arja in Bethlehem. In...
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Catholic communities in Burkina Faso ‘constantly living in fear’ 

Worshippers attend a mass at Ouagadougou's Catholic cathedral on June...
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Two Catholic patriarchs address the people of Jordan with distinct messages

Christian churches in Jordan have called upon Christians to participate...
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Nearly 2,000 Christian youth in Iraq gather for prayer, faith formation

Nearly 2,000 young people from Christian youth groups across Iraq...
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After 1,700 years, an ancient tree marks the vanished hometown of St. Augustine

null / Credit: JoannaTkaczuk/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 07:00...
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St. Monica: the persistent mother of St. Augustine who never gave up

St. Monica. / Credit: Luis Tristán, Public domain, via Wikimedia...
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Marian procession in Tunisia brings Catholics and Muslims together

The procession of “Our Lady of Trapani” in La Goulette,...
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Cardinal Turkson explores evolution of power in Church, society in Kenya college lecture

Cardinal Peter Turkson delivers the inaugural lecture at the opening...
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Pope Francis appoints new Ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe

The Cathedral of the Holy Martyrs, in Gyumri, Armenia, is...
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Robert Bellarmine, the saint who defended the Church with charity

The altar of St. Robert Bellarmine in Sant'Ignazio, Rome. /...
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USCIRF report: State Department rebuking religious freedom violators rarely changes policy

“It has been disappointing to see how seldom a CPC...
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Families are moving out of ‘blue’ states and heading for red and purple, researchers find

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Vatican

Here’s what will be new at the Synod on Synodality part 2

Organizers discuss the upcoming second session of the Synod on...

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