Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has offered prayers for the victims of a terror attack in north London that targeted worshippers outside a mosque in the early hours of Monday. One person was killed and nine have been hospitalized, after a van drove into a group outside the Finsbury Park Mosque shortly before 12:20 am
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Catholics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are returning to church in droves, at least in one town. The Virgin Mary may have appeared to people in the border town of Zongo. Those who have seen the apparition believe it is a warning. The town of Zongo sits south of the border with the
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Catholic bishops of southwest Nigeria have commended Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Army for the considerable progress recorded in the fight against Boko Haram. “ Boko Haram are being scattered and are on the run,” President Buhari said just four months after his election into office. “Occurrences of senseless killing by the Boko
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Joseph Beti Assomo, Cameroon’s Minister Defense says Cameroon’s army, backed by a regional task-force, has freed about 900 Boko Haram hostages, killed at least 100 members of the Islamist extremist group and seized from the Boko Haram Militants an important stock of weapons and ammunition. Joint forces from Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria and Benin reportedly killed
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Despite the security issues in Central African Republic, plans for the papal visit will still go ahead as normal. Pope Francis said he would not wear bulletproof vest or use a shield on the Popemobile during his visit to the Central African Republic Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi , the director of the Vatican press office,
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Introduction 1. The Synod of Bishops, gathered around the Holy Father, turned its thoughts to all the families of the world, each with its joys, difficulties and hopes. In a special way, the Assembly felt a duty to give thanks to the Lord for the generosity and faithfulness of so many Christian families in responding
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has given pride of place on its website to a recent homily by Bishop Camillus Etokudoh of Port Harcourt. The prelate decried “the aftermath of the recognition given to same-sex union[s] in America and Ireland, describing the same-sex union as an abomination and an aberration
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