2012-07-10T08:04:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 10, 2012 at 8:04 am   By

Washington D.C., Jul 10, 2012 / 02:04 am (CNA).- As congressional debate over the U.S. budget continues, Catholic Relief Services has stressed the need to preserve foreign aid funding, especially for those affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Asia.... Read more

2012-07-10T02:25:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 10, 2012 at 2:25 am   By

Jos, Nigeria, Jul 9, 2012 / 08:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama is concerned over the seemingly endless violence against Christians that claimed at least 58 lives this past weekend and hundreds of others in recent weeks. It is &... Read more

2012-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 10, 2012 at 12:00 am   By

Melbourne, Australia, Jul 9, 2012 / 06:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A concert was held July 5 at the Melbourne Recital Centre to remember Irena Sendler, the Polish Catholic who saved some 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of Warsaw’s ghetto.... Read more

2012-07-09T23:09:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 9, 2012 at 11:09 pm   By

Lima, Peru, Jul 9, 2012 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid ongoing protests over the building of what will be the largest mine in Peru, Bishop Jose Martinez Lazaro of Cajamarca has offered to facilitate dialogue between protesters and government officia... Read more

2012-07-09T19:28:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 9, 2012 at 7:28 pm   By

Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Jul 9, 2012 / 01:28 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has been reliving the happy days he spent in the Italian countryside with Bishop Fulton Sheen and others in 1965 as they prepared the Second Vatican Council’s decr... Read more

2012-07-09T18:09:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 9, 2012 at 6:09 pm   By

Madrid, Spain, Jul 9, 2012 / 12:09 pm (CNA).- Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba in Spain called on Catholics to pray for more vocations to the priesthood and religious life, noting their crucial role in the life of the Church. “The vitality ... Read more

2012-07-08T22:56:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 8, 2012 at 10:56 pm   By

Baltimore, Md., Jul 8, 2012 / 04:56 pm (CNA).- It was the end of March when the violence in Syria became unbearable for Salwa, a young mother who lived in the besieged city of Homs with her husband and four children. After more than a year of almost ... Read more

2012-07-08T19:00:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm   By

Charleston, S.C., Jul 8, 2012 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Water stains on the ceiling of her small home remind Susan Tyler every day of the peace Home Works has given her. The Christian organization is based in Irmo, S.C. and repairs and rebuilds homes f... Read more

2012-07-08T16:35:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 8, 2012 at 4:35 pm   By

Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Jul 8, 2012 / 10:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nazareth’s rejection of Jesus highlights the need for people to have an open and trusting disposition towards God in order to receive miracles, Pope Benedict XVI said on July 8. &... Read more

2012-07-08T13:24:00+00:00

Last updated on: July 8, 2012 at 1:24 pm   By

Denver, Colo., Jul 8, 2012 / 07:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On July 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century abbot who gave Christian monasticism its lasting foundation in Western Europe. For his histori... Read more

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