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Disgraced Cardinal Pell appeal verdict due next week

Sydney, Australia | AFP | Judges will rule next week on Australian Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction on multiple child sex abuse charges, court officials announced Thursday. Pell, 78, the former Vatican number three, was sentenced in March to six years in prison for sexually assaulting two choirboys in …

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African church vocations still strong says Bishop Zziwa

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Catholic Church vocations in Africa remain strong despite turbulent waves sweeping across the continent, the Bishop of Kiyinda – Mityana Diocese has said. Bishop Zziwa who was speaking on Wednesday at the Uganda Episcopal Conference Secretariat, Nsambya, says the Church has firmly withstood numerous devastating …

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Uganda Martyrs’ day budget suffers 414 million shortfall

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Catholic Church still needs 414 million Shillings to achieve its targets in organizing this year’ Uganda Martyrs day celebrations. The Archbishop of Gulu Archdiocese Dr John Baptist Odama says many of the pledges towards preparations have not been fulfilled creating a shortfall in the initial …

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RWANDA: Catholic church apology

Bishops’ statement on genocide seen as positive In 1994, violence erupted in Rwanda after a plane carrying then president Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down. Thousands of ethnic Tutsis, a minority group who became a target after Habyarimana’s death, sought refuge in the country’s Catholic and Protestant churches. Hutu militia surrounded …

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Pope Francis mulls opening door to female deacons

Vatican City, Holy See | AFP | Pope Francis said Thursday he would set up a commission to study the possibility of women entering the Catholic clergy, in his latest potentially historic opening on a vexed issue for the Church. In apparently off-the-cuff remarks the 79-year-old pontiff promised to examine …

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Pope Benedict to resign

By Aloysious Kasoma The Catholic church all over the world has been surprised by the news from the Vatican that Pope Benedict xvi is set to resign due to health conditions. Pope Benedict delivered in Latin to members of a consistory or church council, announcing his planned resignation on Monday. …

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