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Disease and cold add to suffering of refugees from Mozambique
An increasing number of Mozambicans, about 6,500 each day, are arriving at a makeshift camp in Malawi to escape violence at home, including summary executions and sexual violence, said a church worker.
In rural Kenya, Loreto sister creates Christian rite of passage for girls
With help of a religious sister, 80 Kenyan girls announced to their families and the world that they would refuse genital mutilation as a traditional transition to womanhood. The U.N. wants to end the practice by 2030.
After oil spill, nuns wonder where students will bathe and play
An oil pipeline break in Peru fouled the river where students of a Catholic boarding school bathe and wash their clothes. It's the 20th pipeline spill in five years in a once-rich fishing area where few now buy fish.
Glenside students take charity from the class to the community
St. Joseph the Protector School, along with St. Luke the Evangelist Parish's PREP students, support a local agency that helps families experiencing cancer. The charitable outreach is a lesson in school, and at home.
On climate issue, Catholics urged to ‘feel pain of the planet, of the poor’
The pope's right-hand man on environmental issues called for relying on Christian spirituality and "major shifts in thinking" to change lifestyles and economic management in order to preserve all of God's creation.
Knights of Columbus join push for Middle East genocide petition
Mass murders and deportations, torture, forcible conversions to Islam, the sexual enslavement and rape of girls and women, and destruction of Christian churches all are evidence of genocide, say U.S. Christians.
New senior housing sought for site at St. Rita Shrine
The joint project of archdiocesan Catholic Health Care Services and the National Shrine of St. Rita would develop income-eligible housing for seniors in South Philadelphia. It would be the latest in several such Catholic-led projects.
‘24 Hours for the Lord’ calls for all churches to stay open March 4-5
Responding to Pope Francis' initiative to focus on the mercy of God, Catholic churches around the world will offer eucharistic adoration and confessions for 24 hours. See details and a map of participating parishes in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Quebec sexual abuse victims settle class action for $21.6 million
About 150 former pupils and boarders of the former Montreal Institute for the Deaf who were sexually abused between 1940 and 1982 will share US$21.6 million after their class action was settled.
Little Sisters of the Poor are the public face of fight against HHS mandate
The Little Sisters and other plaintiffs, in a case the Supreme Court will hear March 23, cite a 1993 religious freedom law to argue the HHS mandate amounts to an undue burden on their free exercise of religion.