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Devils Lake Altru clinic to open new outpatient dialysis unit next week
Grand Forks Herald - North Dakota
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July 8, 2025
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Next week marks the opening of a new outpatient dialysis unit in Devils Lake, situated in the lower level of an Altru Health System clinic. The 12-chair unit, lit both by indoor lighting and windows to the outside, on Monday,...
To Tackle Ghana’s Challenges, Vatican-based Cardinal Calls for “true awakening of fraternal solidarity”
ACI Africa
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July 3, 2025
“We do not yield to despair; rather, we embrace the values of our own past and the religions and faiths we pursue, and formulate the types of solutions and situations that best help us all achieve our common good,” he said. Cardinal Turkson went...
The Vatican’s ethical crusade in the age of AI: An interview with Bishop Tighe
Catholic Voice
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July 4, 2025
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, the Vatican has emerged as an influential voice in the global conversation on AI ethics. Advocating for a human-centred approach to technology, the Holy See emphasises the...
A historian’s first visit to Rome was a historic one
Angelus News - California
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July 8, 2025
First impressions and a final goodbye I had never, until this past May, been to Rome, or for that matter, Italy. I found myself in the Eternal City to pay my respects to Pope Francis and to chronicle my experience of the conclave. I soon learned...
Catholic Church’s Role in Education, Healthcare Discussed at Pope Leo XIV’s Audience with Equatorial Guinean President
ACI Africa
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July 2, 2025
Vatican, 02 July, 2025 / 4:46 pm (ACI Africa). The Catholic Church’s role in promoting formal education and healthcare in Equatorial Guinea was one of the topics discussed during the June 28 meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the President of the...
Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
Religion News Service
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June 30, 2025
(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science....
World : Jokowi Appears In Bali, Luhut Says Health Condition Improving
Bernama
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July 3, 2025
By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar JAKARTA, July 3 (Bernama) -- Amid speculation surrounding his health, former Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, held an informal meeting with National Economic Council Chairman Luhut Binsar...
At the Vatican, experts challenge the rules of global debt and finance
Religion News Service
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July 2, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Some of the most provocative recent proposals challenging global inequality and international debt are not the work of Ivy League economics departments or Silicon Valley think tanks. They’re coming from inside the Vatican. “I...
AI, Irreality and the Liberal Educational Project
Inside Higher Ed
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I work at Marquette University. As a Roman Catholic, Jesuit university, we’re called to be an academic community that, as Pope John Paul II wrote, “scrutinize[s] reality with the methods proper to each academic discipline.” That’s a tall order,...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
Gangs in Haiti burn beloved Gothic gingerbread hotel
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s once-illustrious Grand Hotel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until dawn and attracted visitors from Mick Jagger to Haitian presidents, was burned down by gangs...
More rain forecast as death toll from Texas flooding passes 80
EMS1 - Texas
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July 7, 2025
By Jim Vertuno and John Seewer Associated Press KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — With more rain on the way, the risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday even as crews search urgently for the missing following a holiday...
Wichita priest discusses vocation successes at Vatican's Joyful Priests event
American Catholic Tribune
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July 1, 2025
Fr. Benjamin Sawyer of the Diocese of Wichita recently participated in an international event titled "Joyful Priests – I have called you friends," held at Rome’s Auditorium Conciliazione. The event, part of the Jubilee of Priests from June 25-27,...
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s incorrupt body to be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth
Catholic News Agency
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July 7, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 7, 2025 / 14:15 pm The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 26 through Aug. 4. According to the Vatican’s jubilee office, the coffin...
Pope Leo Says End World Hunger. MAGA Objects.
Patheos
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July 7, 2025
@Vatican Media Pope Leo called for an end to “the global scandal of hunger.” He went on to denounce the use of starvation as a weapon of war. He called starving people to death a “cheap way to wage war.” That should be an obvious truth to any...
Presidency Counters Tinubu’s St. Lucia trip as health Vacation
You News Ng
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July 1, 2025
By, Biola Davies Claims that President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s ongoing visit to Saint Lucia is serving as a strategic cover for a discreet medical consultation has been debunked. Peter Obi had swiftly attacked Tinubu’s trip, saying, “this isn’t time...
Children bear ‘heaviest toll’ in growing global conflicts, says Vatican diplomat at UN
OSV News
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June 30, 2025
(OSV News) — Children are among those who bear “the heaviest toll” in the global rise of armed conflict and “the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes,” a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations. “Too many children...
VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown”
Fides
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June 26, 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025 abouna.org Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred...
Monday Starter: Salesian Sisters leader appointed to Vatican dicastery
Global Sisters Report
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June 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mother Chiara Cazzuola, superior general of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, as a member of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Expressing gratitude...
EXCLUSIVE: Tinubu’s Saint Lucia Visit A Decoy For Secret Medical Consultation, Sources Say
Sahara Reporters
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President Bola Tinubu’s ongoing visit to Saint Lucia is serving as a strategic cover for a discreet medical consultation, sources familiar with the matter have told SaharaReporters. According to the sources, the Caribbean island’s role in this...