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For.Min on Vatican organ-trafficking meeting
China confirmed on Tuesday that former Deputy Health Minister Dr. Huang Jiefu is attending a Vatican conference on organ trafficking, claiming that the visit was not connected to China-Vatican relations.The comments came from Foreign...
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UK Catholic leader visits Gaza's Christians
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales on Sunday visited the Gaza Strip, trying to give a spiritual lift to the territory's tiny Christian minority.Cardinal Vincent Nichols praised Gaza's Christians, whose numbers...
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Poland government offers struggling farmers hope
Life has always been hard for Witold Pogorzelski, a farmer in eastern Poland. Fuel shortages in the communist era prevented him from transporting his produce. In the capitalist era, the nearby sugar factory that provided an income to him...
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Eggs cracked at Sarajevo Easter celebration
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST: ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYSarajevo - 15 April 20171. Little girl picking out Easter eggs2. Close of Easter eggs3. Close of girl4. Girls competing in egg-cracking competition5. Basket...
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Mexicans recreate passion of Christ
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYMexico City - 14 April 20171. Various of participants in reenactment dressed as Roman soldiers marching through the streets playing trumpets2. Various of...
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China: Liu Xiaobo situation 'domestic affairs'
China has described the case of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who had been held in detention until his recent transfer to a hospital after being diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, as a "domestic affair", and says other nations should...
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New bell on Catholic Church in Srinagar
Bells rang out from a 120-year old Catholic church in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday for the first time in half a century.
Members of Srinagar's tiny Christian community gathered to offer prayers at the Holy Family...
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Pope urges world leaders to accept climate change
Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians issued a joint appeal on Friday for political leaders to "support the consensus of the world" that climate change and other environmental ills have created an...
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Peru: Referring to corruption Pope warns of 'threat' to society
Speaking at a highly orchestrated event outside Peru's Presidential palace in Lima Friday afternoon, Pope Francis warned that "a threat looms" over society.
The pontiff called for greater transparency between civil society...
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Pope meets young people at Dhaka's Notre Dame College
Pope Francis visited Dhaka's Notre Dame College on the final day of his visit to Bangladesh on Saturday.
Francis delivered a speech to the youth, encouraging them to choose the right path in their lives.
"May...
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Reporter: Many Cardinals Did Same as Bernard Law
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Pope Francis celebrates mass in Temuco
Pope Francis on Wednesday arrived to the heart of Chile's centuries-old conflict with indigenous peoples to celebrate Mass on contested land that was also used as a detention and torture facility during the country's bloody military...
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Chilean Mapuche leader fails in delivering letter to Pope Francis
A well-known Mapuche leader was unable to deliver a letter to Pope Francis on Wednesday, as the head of the Catholic Church was visiting the heart of Chile's centuries-old conflict with indigenous peoples.
Linconao, a...
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Shamans in Peru perform ritual for Francis
A group of well-known Peruvian shamans performed a ritual on Wednesday in Lima ahead of Pope Francis' visit to the country.
The shamans held rituals to welcome Francis at a beach.
They carried two photographs...
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Shamans in Peru perform ritual for Francis
A group of well-known Peruvian shamans performed a ritual on Wednesday in Lima ahead of Pope Francis' visit to the country.
The shamans held rituals to welcome Francis at a beach.
They carried two...
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Pope receives warm welcome as he returns to Vilnius
Some two hundred faithful lined the street in front of the Apostolic Nunciature in Vilnius to welcome Pope Francis back to the Lithuanian capital during his trip to the Baltics on Monday.
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Pope urges Mapuche to avoid violence
Pope Francis is urging the indigenous Mapuche people to reject violence in pushing their cause.
Francis made the comments Wednesday while celebrating Mass in Temuco.
The city is the capital of the Araucania...
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Germany establishes diplomatic relations with Sovereign Order of Malta
Germany has established diplomatic relations with the Sovereign Order of Malta, a 900-year-old Catholic lay order that has tens of thousands of volunteers working in areas of conflict, natural disasters and extreme poverty around the...
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Chile abuse victim arrives at Vatican for meeting with Pope
The key whistleblower in Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the "toxic" bishops and cardinals who have defamed and discredited...
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Vatican spokesperson: bishop appointments deal is start of process
Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke said on Saturday that the agreement with China over the appointment of bishops was "not the end of a process, it is really the beginning".
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Abuse survivors demand diocese' list "predators"
While Roman Catholic Diocese across the United States have released the names of priests involved in credible sexual abuse allegations, the Charlotte Diocese has yet to follow suit.
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Candlelit vigil in the Vatican for terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans
A catholic group gathered in St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Thursday to pray for terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans.
The hospital withdrew Alfie's his life support Monday after a series of court rulings sided with the...
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Yad Vashem welcomes opening of Pius XII archives
Israel welcomed on Monday a decision by Pope Francis to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized by Jews of staying silent on the Holocaust.
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NZ bishop resigns over sex scandal
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a New Zealand bishop over what church officials said was his "completely unacceptable" sexual behaviour with a young woman.