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Pope encourages Latin American Catholic movements to be missionaries to Gospel message

Mar 9, 2006

As leaders of new Catholic Communities and lay Movements meet in Bogotá, Colombia this week, Pope Benedict XVI has sent... Read more

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African, European University students to gather with Pope for historic meeting

Mar 9, 2006

Tomorrow at the Vatican, some 7,000 university students from around Europe and Africa are scheduled to meet with Pope Benedict... Read more

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Catholics in China want to re-establish relations with Vatican, says Hong Kong Bishop Zen.

Mar 9, 2006

Increasingly, Catholics in China want to re-establish relations with the Holy See and that the latter is ready to move... Read more

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Courage in faith in the face of difficulties in evangelization

Mar 9, 2006

 During his Lenten meditations for the Roman Curia this week, Cardinal Marco Ce, who is preaching the retreat for Pope... Read more

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Family coalition decries Spanish government’s manipulation of language referring to parents

Mar 9, 2006

The Platform for the Promotion of the Family in Spain announced this week it would not remain indifferent in the... Read more

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Dialogue and religious freedom only way to avoid fundamentalism, says Vatican cardinal

Mar 9, 2006

The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, said this week both political and religious... Read more

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Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal involving anti-Catholic statue

Mar 8, 2006

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal this week involving a constitutional challenge to an anti-Catholic statue. The... Read more

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Christian leaders applaud arrests in Alabama church fires

Mar 8, 2006

The Christian Defense Coalition and National Clergy Council have commended federal and state law enforcement for stemming hate crimes against... Read more

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'Choose Life' license plate lawsuit wins in appeals court

Mar 8, 2006

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s second attempt to ban the phrase "Choose Life" from... Read more

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Catholic agencies call for funding for humanitarian, development activities

Mar 8, 2006

Catholic agencies are urging Congress to support essential funding for urgent humanitarian and development activities around the world as it... Read more

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Don’t neglect rural peoples, but guarantee real development, Vatican representative urges U.N.

Mar 8, 2006

On Tuesday, Archbishop Janusz Bolonek, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Uruguay, told members of a United Nations Conference on Agrarian... Read more

New Church movements, communities gather for historic Latin American meeting

Mar 8, 2006

Catholic leaders from across Latin America are descending on Bogotá, Columbia this week for the first meeting to discuss Ecclesial... Read more

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Chilean bishop praises women for contribution to Church and humanity

Mar 8, 2006

On the occasion of International Women’s Day on Wednesday, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of Chile, Bishop Alejandro Goic,... Read more

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Mexican archbishop denies Church receives money from drug trafficking

Mar 8, 2006

Archbishop Emilio Berlie Belaunzaran of Yucatan, Mexico, said this week the Church doesn’t accept money from suspicious sources and that... Read more

Holy See reminds its opposition to an “indigenous church” and to married priesthood in Latin America.

Mar 8, 2006

Through a letter sent to the Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (México), Bishop. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, the Holy... Read more

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Chinese government angry over naming of new cardinal

Mar 7, 2006

The Chinese government’s discontent at the naming of the bishop of Hong Kong to the College of Cardinals was finally... Read more

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Bishops of Argentina launch campaign to fight AIDS

Mar 7, 2006

The secretariat for family ministry of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina has printed 50,000 bumper stickers with the phrase, “Remedy... Read more

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Parishes around the world to receive catechetical material for World Meeting of Families

Mar 7, 2006

The Pontifical Council for the Family and the Archdiocese of Valencia have published the preparatory catechetical material for the World... Read more

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Website launched for world congress on Catholic TV

Mar 7, 2006

Organizers of the World Congress of Catholic TV, which will take place October 10-12 in Madrid, have launched a website... Read more