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Here\u2019s a report saying in Sri Lanka Buddhist extremists attack a Catholic Church. Evangelical churches are growing quickly in China and are being crushed by the Chinese regime. Read about it here, and in England the government plans legislation that may force Catholics to admit women and homosexuals to Holy Orders. Check it out here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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