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Dictatorship in Nicaragua uses confiscated nuns’ home as migration office

February 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ / Credit: Facebook Fraternidade O Caminho

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship of Daniel O… […]

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Pope Francis calls for release of 6 religious sisters taken hostage in Haiti

January 21, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis presides over Mass for the Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 21, 2024. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2024 / 11:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis called for the release of six religious sisters who have … […]

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Nicaraguan dictatorship takes over Catholic school; three nuns may be deported soon

June 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Harold Escalona / Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 1, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
The Nicaraguan dictatorship took over a Catholic school in the early hours of May 29 and will probably soon deport three foreign nuns belong… […]

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Catholic organization rescues three nuns trapped amid crossfire in Sudan

May 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The Vulnerable People Project rescue three nuns trapped in the middle of the crossfire in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, May 2023. / Credit: The Vulnerable People Project

ACI Prensa Staff, May 24, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
The Vulnerable People P… […]

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Pope Francis: Monks and nuns are ‘the beating heart’ of evangelization

April 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter’s Square on April 26, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican City, Apr 26, 2023 / 05:15 am (CNA).
It is no accident that the patron saint of foreign missionaries is a cloistered nun, Pope Francis said… […]

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Servant of God Mother Mary Lange and the rich history of Black Catholic religious orders

February 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Sister Brenda Cherry (right) attests to the long legacy of teaching by the Oblate Sisters of Providence. / Credit: Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives

Newport Beach, California, Feb 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Two centuries ago, Mary Elizabeth… […]

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Pope Francis tells religious sisters fight back when mistreated by ‘men of the Church’

February 1, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis meets religious sisters at a general audience on Jan. 19, 2022. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Feb 1, 2022 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis told religious sisters’ to fight back when they are treated unfairly or “reduced to servitude”… […]

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The nuns who witnessed the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr

January 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington D.C., Jan 17, 2022 / 12:04 pm (CNA).
Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965…. […]

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Pope Francis asks religious sisters to pray for him: ‘It is not easy to be the pope’

October 23, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis meets with the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in Rome on Oct. 22, 2021. / Vatican Media

Rome, Italy, Oct 23, 2021 / 08:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis paid a visit to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians on Friday and asked the re… […]

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Meet the Catholic nuns leading the fight against human trafficking

October 15, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Sister Monica Chikwe, vice president, Slaves No More / U.S. Embassy to the Holy See

Vatican City, Oct 15, 2021 / 10:06 am (CNA).
When a 26-year-old Nigerian girl was first forced out on the streets of Italy by her traffickers, she was told: “You… […]

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