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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...
Russian human rights ombudswoman appeals to Pope over citizens held in Ukraine
TASS
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July 9, 2025
BISHKEK, July 9. /TASS/. Russian Human Rights Ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova has sent a letter to Pope Leo requesting support in repatriating Russian civilians from Ukraine. "Currently, 30 Russians are being held in Sumy. We have just coordinated...
Texas flood death toll rises to 70 as families search camp wreckage for missing girls
EMS1 - Texas
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July 6, 2025
By Jim Vertuno and John Seewer Associated Press KERRVILLE, Texas — Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their...
Brand Bharat must offer values, not just a western replica: Ram Madhav, President, India Foundation
Organiser Weekly
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In a world where global equations are shifting rapidly, India finds itself at a crucial juncture, neither a passive bystander nor a mere emerging power, but a nation expected to shape the contours of the 21st-century global order. At this...
How to Put Development Finance Back on Track
Addis Fortune
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lobal growth this year is expected to slow to its lowest rate (outside of a crisis) since 2008. The outlook is especially problematic for developing countries that are already growing well below historical averages, and for those 35 countries,...
Indian Military's Awesome 3
Rediff
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Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Field Marshal K M Cariappa Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh The three highest-ranking military heroes of the Indian Armed Forces. They were the rarest of the rare. The bravest of the brave. IMAGE: General Sam...
How Canada’s clergy navigate the pastoral challenges of assisted suicide
The Pillar
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July 7, 2025
Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD,...
Religion news 9 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 8, 2025
Government reaffirms commitment to Freedom of Religion or Belief The UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, David Smith MP, says the UK is making a new commitment to the centrality of FoRB in foreign policy, In a speech at the Foreign...
Auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei charged with human trafficking.
Patheos
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July 8, 2025
Detail of an altar dedicated to Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (1902-1975), founder of the Opus Dei, Peterskirche, Vienna, Austria. Source Wikimedia Commons, public domain Msgr. Mariano Fazio, the second-ranking official in Opus Dei, has been...
United Nations warns of dire humanitarian situation in Sudan
Vatican News
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July 8, 2025
The United Nations renews its warnings of a dire situation in Sudan’s North Darfur province, where conflict is causing extreme shortages in food and clean water. By Vatican News Nearly 40 percent of children under 5-years-old are suffering from...
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...
Patriarch Bartholomew meets families of Ukrainian POWs, missing soldiers
Ukrinform
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew held a meeting in Istanbul with the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war and those missing in action, greeting them with the words "Glory to Ukraine." According to Ukrinform, Ukraine's Consul General in Istanbul,...
News Briefs: July 13, 2025
Today's Catholic - Indiana
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July 8, 2025
USCCB President: One Big Beautiful Bill Will Cause ‘Greatest Harm’ to Poor WASHINGTON, D.C. (USCCB) – Reacting to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by the U.S. Congress, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States...
Cape Town’s first black female mayor, Theresa Solomon dies at 79
Cape Town ETC
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July 8, 2025
Revered anti-apartheid activist, civic leader, diplomat and former mayor of Cape Town, Theresa Solomon, succumbed to her battle with illness at the age of 79 on Monday, 7 July 2025, reports Cape {town} Etc. According to family spokesperson Neil...
Visa runs explained: How to legally extend your UAE visa without overstaying
The Times of India
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A visa run is a fully legal and widely practiced method to extend your stay in the UAE, as long as it's done through the proper channels and within immigration guidelines./ Image: VisaRun.ae TL;DR: Visa runs are a legitimate and convenient way to...
Old men in hot water
High Plains Reader - North Dakota
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Gadfly | July 7th, 2025 By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.com Why doesn’t the world require politicians to leave office at 60? Most of the leaders of countries, whether gods, fascists, democrats or socialists, are not doing very well these days....
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,...
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...
Blessed Frassati’s coffin to be moved to Rome for Jubilee of Youth
Catholic News
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July 7, 2025
Pier Giorgio Frassati (CNA/Public domain) The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth from July 26 to August 4. Source: CNA. According to the Vatican’s jubilee...
Taiwan's ambassador to Holy See presents Letter of Credence
Focus Taiwan
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July 4, 2025
Vatican City, July 3 (CNA) Anthony Ho (賀忠義), the new ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the Holy See, presented his Letter of Credence to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, officially beginning his tenure. Ho succeeded Matthew Lee (李世明), who...