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  • [ November 12, 2026 ] Priest extols the value of confession at papal youth vigil News Briefs
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  • [ November 12, 2026 ] Hungarian bishops urge against ‘hasty opinions’ amid clergy names in Soviet secret police files News Briefs
  • [ November 12, 2026 ] ‘Sexual abuse is a crime, not a disciplinary matter’: Catholic women in Ghana demand accountability News Briefs
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Armenian patriarch to represent Catholics at Middle East Council of Churches

May 27, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian. / Screenshot from MECC – The Middle East Council of Churches YouTube channel.

London, England, May 27, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA).
Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian is the new representative of Catholics … […]

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Pope Francis: ‘Stop using Lebanon and the Middle East for outside interests and profits’

July 1, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis takes part in a day of reflection and prayer for Lebanon, July 1, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Jul 1, 2021 / 11:23 am (CNA).
Hosting a day of prayer for Lebanon with Catholic and Orthodox leaders on Thursday, Pope Francis sa… […]

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Pope Francis appeals to Holy Land Catholics as bishops consecrate Middle East to Holy Family

June 27, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square, April 17, 2013. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

Nazareth, Israel, Jun 27, 2021 / 02:50 am (CNA).
Pope Francis urged Catholics in the Middle East on Sunday to “be the salt of your lands” as… […]

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Catholic bishops to consecrate Middle East to the Holy Family

June 16, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa blesses the congregation at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 4, 2021. / Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Jun 16, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Catholic bishops will consecrate the Middl… […]

Features

Scholar reflects on “enormous significance” of U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide

April 29, 2021 Father Seán Connolly 5

Just one week prior to his 1939 invasion of Poland and the mass slaughter that followed, Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Such a depraved sentiment […]

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How a helicopter crash brought a soldier back to the Catholic faith

January 21, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- As a self-proclaimed atheist in his early 20s, Private Dillon Beatson said that the only time he spoke of religion was with ridicule. But when his helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Middle… […]

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Pope Francis sends condolences after 32 killed in suicide bombings in Iraq

January 21, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 08:15 am (CNA).- Pope Francis said on Thursday that he was praying for the victims of two suicide bombings in Baghdad, which took place less than two months before his scheduled visit to Iraq.

At least 32 people died… […]

The Dispatch

World premiere of new “Footprints of God” film on March 9th in Canton, Michigan

March 2, 2018 CWR Staff 3

Host and creator Steve Ray will present and discuss Elijah & Elisha: Conscience of the Kingdom, the ninth film in the popular series from Ignatius […]

The Dispatch

For Chaldean Catholics, the Faith has been transmitted by “a testimony of blood”

January 3, 2018 Nicholas LaBanca 4

A Chaldean Catholic priest from Iraq living in the US discusses his Church’s ancient liturgical tradition as well as the dangers faced by Middle East […]

Interview

Defending the voiceless, from the unborn to persecuted Christians

October 16, 2017 Fiorella Nash 5

Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is using his unique perspective on the plight of Middle Eastern Christians to be “light to attract those in darkness.” […]

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