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Central African bishops seek Western help to solve nation’s insecurity
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- African countries that make up peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic seem to be defending their own borders instead of keeping the peace, said Catholic bishops from the country.
$28.8 million FEMA grant to help rebuild schools destroyed in tornado
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (CNS) -- A $28.8 million Federal Emergency Management Administration grant will allow the Diocese of Springfield to rebuild three schools destroyed in a 2011 tornado.
Job creation is essential for promoting human dignity, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In making economic policies and decisions, solidarity is too often treated as "a dirty word," yet the only way out of the global financial crisis is to put people -- with their dignity and creativity -- first, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal, panelists: Pope Francis’ celebrity should turn eyes to Jesus
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- "Like Pope Francis? You'll love Jesus."
Thousands of rare Vatican manuscripts to go online
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Thousands of rare manuscripts until now accessible only to scholars at the Vatican will go online over the next four years, thanks to help from a Japanese information technology company.
Boys’ choir from centuries-old monastery in Spain makes U.S. debut
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Since the 13th century, the Escolania de Montserrat has sung daily for pilgrims at Escolania de Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain.
For Peru’s Kukama people, water is more than a drink, missionary finds
DOS DE MAYO, Peru (CNS) -- It was a day Father Miguel Angel Cadenas did not expect to see. One after another, government officials stood before several hundred Kukama Indians packed into a sweltering wood-frame room in this tiny riverside village, describing the results of a study of pollution in their communities.
Couple took long road, through Jesus, to Philadelphia
Pedro and Carmen Biaggi renounced their former ways, embraced the Lord through the Neocatechumenal Way and are raising six children in New Jersey. They are all moving along with other families sent by Pope Francis to St. Michael Parish in North Philadelphia this June with the Missio ad Gentes.
Bahrain cathedral will be ‘symbol of Christianity’ in ‘heart of Islam’
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, knows full well what it is like to minister to Catholics in a Muslim region because he has been doing that for more than four decades.
English bishop says uncharitable use of social media a ‘grave matter’
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- An English bishop asked Catholics to use Lent as a time to repent of sins committed on social media.