Two million expected at Uganda Martyrs Shrine for Pope’s visit
More than two million people are expected to converge near a shrine in the Ugandan capital where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Saturday, a Church official in the country has said. The shrine is...
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Police have searched a financial broker’s home in connection with a suspected €20m ($21.2m, £14m) fraud against the Franciscan order. Ugandan gay rights activists are seeking a private audience with...
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Honour your martyrs by putting faith into action, Pope tells Ugandans
As Pope Francis encouraged Ugandan Christians to draw inspiration from the 19th-century Ugandan Martyrs, he carried with him graphic images of the horrors the 45 Anglican and Catholic martyrs endured....
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The health of Mother Angelica, the 92-year founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), is reportedly declining. Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have urged citizens to resist any...
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has arrived in Crete ahead of the Pan-Orthodox Council. Burmese Cardinal Charles Bo has issued an impassioned call for peace in Kachin State. Restoration work on the...
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Pope Francis will visit the graves of two “anti-establishment” Italian priests in June (John Allen). The proportion of Ugandans who are Catholic is reportedly declining. Cardinal Gerhard Müller says...
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin has “raised questions regarding the Catholic Church’s life and activity in Russia” in talks with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. A Catholic priest has stepped down after...
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