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Brutal attack on worshippers in Nigeria is called attack on ‘entire church’
The brutal attack on people at a Catholic church in Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday is “an attack on the entire church,” said a U.S. official of Aid to the Church in Need.
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Catholic college professor promotes iconography project to help Ukraine
By BY LAURA IERACI, Catholic News Service
Published April 27, 2022Paul Gavrilyuk, a native Ukrainian, has turned to an iconography project with a mission to expose the ongoing tragedy of war in Ukraine and to raise funds for a voluntary mobile hospital.
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New rights report documents atrocities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray
By FREDRICK NZWILI, Catholic News Service
Published April 6, 2022Some Catholic church sources from Ethiopia have corroborated a report by two international human rights groups detailing widespread abuses in the western part of the Tigray region.
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Meeting migrants, pope warns civilization risks being ‘shipwrecked’
By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Published April 3, 2022Pope Francis insisted that migrants and refugees must be treated with care and kindness and recognized as brothers and sisters during an April 3 meeting at the John XXIII Peace Lab’s Center for Migrants in Hal Far, Malta.
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