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Christians in Middle East gather for Easter prayers following Palm Sunday bombings

Christians attended an Easter service on Mount Nebo in Jordan

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Risen Christ calls all to follow him on path to life, Pope says

Francis urges Christians to be instruments of Christ's outreach to victims of war, famine and loneliness

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Cause of Fr Jacques Hamel is officially opened

The Archbishop of Rouen announced the news at a Chrism Mass

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✣  pope opens way to recognising sspx marriages what happened? pope francis has made a concession to the society of st pius x (sspx) by...

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✣ highlights from the week online the religious who tracks down the dead alfa y omega, a magazine of the madrid archdiocese, interviewed a r...

May attacks ‘ridiculous’ airbrushing of Easter

theresa may has criticised the national trust after the word “easter” was dropped from its annual egg hunt, calling the decision “absolutely...

Study: don’t judge Church schools on free meals

the number of children who receive free school meals (fsm) is a misleading indicator of a school’s socio-economic composition, catholic acad...

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Small drop in number of priests worldwide

the number of priests in the world dropped by 136 during 2015, the vatican has reported. the increased number of priests in african dioceses...