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November 8, 2020

Lebanese cardinal: Country’s ‘political authority has murdered its people’

Lebanon’s “political authority has murdered its people,” Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, said at the closing Mass of the synod of Maronite Catholic bishops from around the world. “The authority has killed its people economically, financially, and in terms of living and development. It thrust them into a state of loss, anger, despair, revolution, emigration... Read More
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June 10, 2020

Ex-Salvadoran colonel goes on trial in Spain for 1989 Jesuit murders

A former military commander accused of killing six Jesuits and two women working with the Society of Jesus during El Salvador’s civil war went on trial on 8th June in Spain, offering hopes of justice for crimes that have wallowed in impunity for more than three decades. Inocente Orlando Montano, a former colonel in the... Read More
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May 14, 2020

Nigerian bishop: Murdered seminarian had courage of a martyr

A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping. One of the suspects said Michael Nnadi was killed because he kept asking his kidnappers “to repent and turn their lives around from their evil ways”, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto.... Read More
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May 22, 2019

Pope prays for Spanish missionary murdered in Central African Republic

Pope Francis led thousands of pilgrims in prayer for a Spanish missionary sister killed in Central African Republic. While greeting French pilgrims attending his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square today (Wednesday), the pope said he was saddened to hear of the brutal murder of Daughter of Jesus Sister Ines Nieves Sancho, a 77-year-old... Read More
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May 21, 2019

El Salvador lays to rest another priest presumably assassinated by gangs

Thousands attended the funeral on Monday of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing. Parishioners found Father Cecilio Perez Cruz, a 35-year-old priest and pastor of San Jose La Majada parish in Juayua, shot dead in his residence on Saturday with a note nearby that said he... Read More
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May 2, 2019

Pro-IRA graffiti at Lyra McKee murder scene warns ‘informers will be executed’

Pro-IRA graffiti has appeared in Derry warning the community against helping the police. The slogans appeared this morning in the Creggan area, metres from where journalist Lyra McKee was killed on 18th April. She was shot by a dissident republican linked to the New IRA who fired indiscriminately at police lines during disturbances over the... Read More
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April 3, 2019

Missing woman’s sister breaks down at site where she was last seen

The sister of a missing 25-year-old Catholic woman broke down in tears at the site where her sister was last seen 14 years ago as she urged anyone that could help to find her to come forward. Joanne Dorrian made the plea as her family revisited the caravan park where Lisa Dorrian was last seen... Read More
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October 9, 2018

Novena for Blessed Oscar Romero in London parish

In anticipation of his canonisation on Sunday 14th October, the parish of St Ignatius, Stamford Hill is holding a Novena of intercession to Blessed Oscar Romero, with prayers and brief reflections at every Mass. The Novena opened with a Mass on Friday 5th October, celebrated by Bishop John Sherrington, and continues until Saturday 13th October... Read More
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July 10, 2018

Philippine bishops announce days of prayer, fasting, penance for peace

Catholic bishops in the Philippines, concerned about an increase in violence and police reaction to crime, announced a day of prayer and penance on 16th July and three days of fasting, prayer and penance, from 17th to 19th July. The bishops said they wanted to “invoke God’s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed... Read More
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March 2, 2018

Berlin Archdiocese grieves after murder of African-born priest

Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin paid tribute to Fr Alain-Florent Gandoulou, the head of the archdiocese’s French-speaking ministry who was murdered in his office. Archbishop Koch said Fr Gandoulou, born in the Republic of Congo, “applied himself with great engagement to his community, whose members come from every French-speaking country in the world.” “His musical... Read More
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