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29 Dec 2011 – JERUSALEM (CNS) — Christians in the Middle
East show “overwhelming faith,” but many also express
fear, said the president of the Catholic Near East Welfare
Association. Read more...
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22 Dec 2011 – LONDON (CNS) — Chaldean Catholic officials have canceled traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses because of security risks. Read more...
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21 Dec 2011 – JERUSALEM (CNS) — Amid continuing turmoil in the Middle East, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem sent a message of hope and support to Christians of the region. Read more...
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12 Dec 2011 – DARBY, Pa. (CNS) — U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley, who spent more than two decades leading the church’s social communications council and later worked for the church in the Middle East, died Dec. 11 after a battle with leukemia. Read more...
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09 Dec 2011 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — Over the past nine
years in Iraq, the sacrifice of the U.S. military “and our nation as a whole has been tremendous,” Army chaplain Father Joel Panzer said, and soldiers in general feel “it’s time for us to leave” to give the nation the impetus “to function independently.” Read more...
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09 Dec 2011 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — What turned out to be a
yearlong Arab Spring of grass-roots uprisings in 2011 left
several countries with new leadership and a death toll in
the tens of thousands, most from a full-scale civil war in
Libya. Read more...
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06 Dec 2011 – VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican official
deplored the growing violence in Syria, and called on
political leaders there to enact “real reforms.” Read more...
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17 Nov 2011 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — To address a shortage
of priests in his nationwide eparchy, the Melkite Catholic
bishop of Newton, Mass., is exploring the possibility of
ordaining married men as priests. Read more...
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