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May 12, 2021

Rain can’t dampen Walsingham spirit

Two hundred socially-distanced pilgrims were welcomed to the Catholic National Shrine at Walsingham on a rainy May Bank Holiday (3rd May) for the Diocese of East Anglia annual pilgrimage, with many others joining them online, writes Keith Morris. It was the largest in-person pilgrimage the shrine has seen since last autumn, but most pilgrims were asked... Read More
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April 24, 2020

Polish Church warns of water shortages during pandemic

Poland’s Catholic bishops have urged nationwide prayers for rain, amid warnings huge areas of farmland could be ruined by drought during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our homeland has struggled with the coronavirus epidemic, as the state makes efforts to maintain the economy, sustain jobs and rescue those wrestling with financial problems,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of... Read More
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August 7, 2019

Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding

Catholic churches and institutions in flood-hit Mumbai opened their doors to accommodate thousands of people stranded in the city by heavy rain and flooded streets. Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Syro-Malabar Bishop Thomas Elavanal of Kalyan, India, asked their parish priests on 5th August to help stranded and homeless people as heavy rain... Read More
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December 5, 2018

Bishop John Arnold – Diaries from Liberia

The Bishop of Salford, John Arnold, who is also Chair of Trustees at CAFOD, recently visited Liberia. Here are his diary entries from the trip: Monday 29th October This West African country is one of the wettest in the world, and we wake to the sound of heavy rain. The land is lush and fertile,... Read More
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September 28, 2018

North Carolina parishes still coping with Florence waters

In the days and weeks since Hurricane Florence made landfall in mid-September, North Carolina residents are still coping with the massive amounts of water from the storm and the subsequent flooding of the state’s rivers. Families have been displaced by these rising waters and 27 churches or parish facilities in the Raleigh Diocese have been... Read More
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July 11, 2018

Primate of All-Ireland praises ‘brave rescuers’ of ‘Thai cave boys’

The Primate of All-Ireland has praised the ‘brave rescuers’ who saved 12 schoolboys and their football coach from a flooded Thai cave. The 18-day ordeal riveted much of the world – from the awful news that the 13 were missing, to the first flickering video of the huddle of anxious yet smiling boys when they... Read More
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July 11, 2018

Priest keeps pro-life vigil outside Canadian Parliament for almost three decades

Jesuit Fr Tony Van Hee says nearly 30 years spent fasting and praying on Parliament Hill to end abortion have been the best years of his life. At age 81, he has no plans of slowing down, despite a raft of rule changes that, among many restrictions, even limit his bathroom breaks. “I have a... Read More
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