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Pope Francis apologizes that Amazon synod ‘Pachamama’ was thrown into Tiber River

October 25, 2019 Catholic News Agency 49

Vatican City, Oct 25, 2019 / 10:43 am (CNA).- After controversial statues were thrown into Rome’s Tiber River, Pope Francis has issued an apology during Friday’s afternoon session of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops on […]

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Amazon synod’s controversial carved figures thrown into Tiber River

October 21, 2019 Catholic News Agency 17

A video uploaded to YouTube on Oct. 21 shows two men taking several wooden figures of a nude pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them into the Tiber River. The figures […]

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