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Their father, Muhamud, had doused the house with petrol, then set it alight while the girls slept inside. He had told them he would act to fulfill Islamic law since they had rejected Islam when they converted to Christianity on Aug. 26.

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The figure, published September 16 by the German Bishops’ Conference in its annual “Global Church” report, represents a decline of almost 10 percent from the approximately €595 million provided in 2024

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The site, known in the Bible as Bethany beyond the Jordan, has acquired substantial archaeological significance. Excavations have uncovered the remains of churches, chapels, hermits’ caves and a baptistery, providing tangible evidence of centuries of Christian worship and pilgrimage associated with the baptism tradition

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15 men have chosen to begin by asking whether they are being called to give their lives to the Church

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The organization presents the change not as an abandonment of the sacred character it attributes to blood, but as a transfer of responsibility from a uniform religious prohibition to individual conscience

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Remarks by the Holy Father to the assembly of the Diocese of Rome

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Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, September 20, 2026

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Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

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The Centro Católico Multimedial, which tracks attacks against clergy and other members of the Church, reports 28 incidents involving Church personnel during the current federal administration of MORENA, including four murdered priests

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The Vatican is not producing a new list of saints by administrative decree. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery, stressed that the Church does not simply “create” saints. Canonization is a formal ecclesial judgment subject to specific requirements, while the catalogue has a wider purpose

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