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The Lebanese saint who unites Christians and Muslims

July 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Image from the Shrine of St. Charbel. / Hannah Brockhaus / CNA.

Annaya, Lebanon, Jul 24, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA).
St. Charbel Makhlouf is known in Lebanon for the miraculous healings of those who visit his tomb to seek his intercession — both Chr… […]

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Iraq’s president revokes recognition of Catholic leader 

July 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako / ACI MENA

Washington D.C., Jul 17, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, announced Saturday that he is withdrawing from his seat in Baghdad after Iraqi President Abdu… […]

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Latin patriarch of Jerusalem condemns Israeli military action

July 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa. / Cristian Gennari/OESSH.

Washington D.C., Jul 5, 2023 / 15:10 pm (CNA).
The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem condemned the Israeli government and urged peace and dialogue between both sides after the Israel Defe… […]

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Suspended priest takes charge of Nigeria’s strife-torn Benue State

July 2, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The campaign poster for Father Hyacinth Iormen Alia alluded to his well-known healing ministry. / Courtesy of APC campaign

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
His titles are many: priest, faith healer, exorcist, psychothera… […]

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‘Spiritually transformative’: Nun recalls Mali captivity in new religious freedom report

June 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, a missionary who was abducted in Mali in February 2017 and held for nearly five years. / Credit: ACN

ACI Africa, Jun 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, a missionary who was abd… […]

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Violence, emergence of new militia among Democratic Republic of Congo bishops’ concerns

June 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO). / Credit: CENCO

ACI Africa, Jun 27, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Persistent violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the emergence of new groups of milit… […]

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Ugandan diocese observes five-day prayer for victims of secondary school attack

June 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Africa, Jun 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The Diocese of Kasese in Uganda observed a five-day prayer for the souls of the victims of the recent attack on Lubiriha Secondary School located in its territory in th… […]

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‘There is sometimes a terrifying silence’ regarding abortions in Africa, priest says

June 25, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Apollinaire Cibaka Cikongo. / Credit: EWTN Vaticano

ACI Africa, Jun 25, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic priest serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has expressed concern about the “general silence” on matters of terminatin… […]

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Nigerian priest freed after torture, hospitalized with ‘deep wounds on his head’

June 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha was freed from captivity in the Archdiocese of Jos in Nigeria June 20, 2023. / Credit: OMI

ACI Africa, Jun 21, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who was … […]

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Missionary priest abducted in Nigeria’s Jos Archdiocese; security guard killed

June 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha was abducted on June 17, 2023, from the Archdiocese of Jos in Nigeria. / Credit: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

ACI Africa, Jun 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha, a member of the Missionar… […]

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