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Easter appeal to save 'Christian origins' in Holy Land | Easter appeal,Christians in the Holy Land,Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri,
Easter appeal to save 'Christian origins' in Holy Land
The Holy See has launched this year's Easter appeal for the support of Christians in the Holy Land, calling for support to preserve the 'Christian origins' of the region. The prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, called for the collaboration of priests around the world. Read More ...
Catholic price comparison website launched | Catholic price comparison,Catholic Values Ltd, Agostino Di Falco,Martin Foley, Life, Luke Parsons,
Catholic price comparison website launched
A price comparison website with a difference has been launched this week. All profits net of running costs made through the website will be donated to UK charities who support the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. Read More ...
Zimbabwe: outbreak of measles hits half country | measles,Zimbabwe, Epidemiological Bulletin,World Health Organization, WHO
Zimbabwe: outbreak of measles hits half country
An outbreak of measles has hit 28 of the 62 districts of Zimbabwe and is still spreading. The illness is more serious in a population where many are suffering from malnutrition, HIV and other conditions. According to the latest Epidemiological Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), Read More ...
Vatican statement on sexual abuse of minors  | Fr Federico Lombardi SJ,Ireland,sexual abuse of minors Germany, Austria, Holland
Vatican statement on sexual abuse of minors
Fr Federico Lombardi SJ director of the Holy see press office, issued the following statement today, concerning the situation in Ireland, and also cases of sexual abuse of minors Germany, Austria and Holland: Read More ...
Olympics bring greater unity to Vancouver churches | Winter Olympics,churches of Vancouver, More Than Gold,2012 Games
Olympics bring greater unity to Vancouver churches
Following their involvement with the Winter Olympics, the churches of Vancouver and beyond are more united.  That is the assessment of a delegation from the UK's More Than Gold initiative that will help churches make the most of London's 2012 Games. Read More ...
Film: Thinking Faith reviews the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker | The Hurt Locker,Oscars for Best Picture,Kathryn Bigelow,
Film: Thinking Faith reviews the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker
The central insight of The Hurt Locker is the fact that for many soldiers, a motivation to fight is simply the alleviation of boredom. This insight comes with some compassionate and compelling realism. The film explores this through the story of the last few days of a bomb-disposal team's tour of Iraq. Read More ...
London parish holds Day for Dads  | Day for Dads,Holy Apostles, Pimlico
London parish holds Day for Dads
A central London parish held their first-ever 'Day for Dads' recently. Twenty-seven fathers  from Holy Apostles, Pimlico, turned up for the event. This was  far in excess of expectations, and went some way to nailing the myth that modern-day fathers - at least those in our parish  - tend to take a back-seat role in the upbringing of their children. Read More ...
Campaigners demand enquiry over refugee family suicide | Robina Qureshi,Director of Positive Action in Housing,UK Borders Agency
Campaigners demand enquiry over refugee family suicide
Prayers have been said in Glasgow following the news of the tragic suicide of three asylum seekers on Sunday. Campaigners believe the three were a father, mother and son, from the former Soviet Union, who may have been refused permission to stay in this country and had also just been told Read More ...
Nigeria: more than 500 killed in tribal clashes | Berom tribe,killed with machetes,Christian villages,Nigeria, Jos, Fulani
Nigeria: more than 500 killed in tribal clashes
More than 500 people, including women and children,  from the Berom tribe were killed with machetes, in three Christian villages in Nigeria close to the city of Jos on Sunday. A mainly Muslim clan known as the Fulani have been blamed for the attacks. Homes and churches were also burned.
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Bilingual school opens in London  | bilingual state education,French,Holy Cross Catholic Primary School,L'école Marie d'Orliac
Bilingual school opens in London
Free bilingual state education in French and English will be available to 56 primary school pupils in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham from September this year. The scheme, involving Holy Cross Catholic Primary School and L'école Marie d'Orliac was confirmed by the signing of a formal declaration Read More ...
Divine Mercy Day at Westminster Cathedral | Lenten Divine Mercy Day of Prayer
Divine Mercy Day at Westminster Cathedral
On Saturday, a Lenten Divine Mercy Day of Prayer was held in Westminster Cathedral with the theme: 'God’s Mercy the only remedy for the World'. The day included a  Eucharistic healing service, procession of the Image of Divine Mercy and praying of the Chaplet of Mercy and Rosary before Mass. Read More ...
Zimbabwe: Archbishop makes Lenten appeal for prisoners | Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu, Harare,prisoners,Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Archbishop makes Lenten appeal for prisoners
Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu of Harare has made an new appeal on behalf of prisoners in Zimbabwe who are being incarcerated in appalling conditions. He added that  many  Zimbabweans  throughout the country are living in severe poverty and receive  no healthcare, and warned that there may be another drought, bringing a poor  harvest. Read More ...
Premier Christian radio launches  iPhone 'prayer beads'  | Premier Christian, iTunes Apps, prayer beads
Premier Christian radio launches iPhone 'prayer beads'
Premier Christian media today announced the launch of a digital set of 'Prayer Beads' in time  for Easter. The wooden beads can be individually rotated or moved around the string.  While the Prayer Beads App  will in the iTunes Apps store for Easter, the evangelising Christian company say they have commissioned the digital prayer tool "with a future customer in mind".

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Election briefing on peace and security issues  | Network of Christian Peace Organisations,Pax Christi, election briefing, General Election,Middle East,Arms Trade, Nuclear Proliferation,Military Spending.
Election briefing on peace and security issues
The Network of Christian Peace Organisations, of which Pax Christi is one of 25 members, has produced a briefing for Christians to use in preparation for the forthcoming General Election. It covers four areas: The Middle East, the Arms Trade, Nuclear Proliferation and Military Spending. Read More ...
Glasgow charity voices concern after three 'asylum seekers' die in fall | Robina Qureshi, Positive Action in Housing, asylum seekers
Glasgow charity voices concern after three 'asylum seekers' die in fall
A charity working with refugees and asylum seekers has spoken out after three people plunged to their deaths from the 15th floor of a block of flats in Glasgow on Sunday morning. Police are currently investigating the deaths of two men and a woman at the Red Road block of flats
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Holy Land:  Three children detained while gathering herbs | At-Tuwani Village,South Hebron Hills, West Bank,Ma'on, CPT. Operation Dove
Holy Land: Three children detained while gathering herbs
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers detained three Palestinian boys in At-Tuwani Village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. The boys, aged 13 and 14, were gathering herbs above al-Khelli Valley, 300 metres from the Israeli settlement of Ma'on, on land owned by the eldest child's family. Read More ...
World day of prayer for Burma | Burma,Christian Solidarity Wordwide,global day of prayer with Karen Aid and Partners Relief & Development, Emmanuel Centre
World day of prayer for Burma
Thousands of Christians worldwide will unite in prayer for Burma this week. Christian Solidarity Wordwide  is hosting a global day of prayer with Karen Aid and Partners Relief & Development, at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Saturday 13 March. Read More ...
New York: churches  offers 24 hours of Confession for Lent | The Cathedral of Saint Patrick,rchdiocese of New York,24 Hours of Confessions project
New York: churches offers 24 hours of Confession for Lent
The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and 51 more churches in the Archdiocese of New York, have held the second annual 24 Hours of Confessions project for the 2010 Lenten Season.  Last year 20 Manhattan parishes took part. This year 51 parishes opened their doors Read More ...
Actor  Robert Hardy to perform in Oxford Oratory Hopkins evening  | Robert Hardy,Oxford Oratory,Julien Chilcott Williams,Vox Angelica, Newman chapel;
Actor Robert Hardy to perform in Oxford Oratory Hopkins evening
The distinguished actor Robert Hardy is taking part at an evening of music and poetry this Friday,  12 March,  at the Oxford Oratory. The event is being organised by Catholic writer and composer Julien Chilcott Williams whose choir, Vox Angelica, will sing  to raise funds for the redevelopment campaign and the building of a Newman chapel; Read More ...
Caritas says domestic staff in Europe should not be 'modern slaves'
Caritas says domestic staff in Europe should not be 'modern slaves'
Caritas Internationalis has appealed to governments and international communities for the protection of migrants working in homes as maids, caretakers and caregivers. For the most part they are women. Domestic workers are often exploited and rarely have any form of legal protection. Read More ...
US Traditionalist Anglicans vote to become Catholic | +Louis W Falk,traditionalist Anglicans,Catholic.  The House of Bishops, Traditional Anglican Communion,
US Traditionalist Anglicans vote to become Catholic
The Traditionalist Anglicans in the United States have voted to become Catholic.  The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America of the Traditional Anglican Communion,  meeting in Orlando, Florida, issued the following statement on Thursday: Read More ...
Sunday Reflection with Fr Terry Tastard - 7 March  2010 | Fr Terry Tastard
Sunday Reflection with Fr Terry Tastard - 7 March 2010
Recently I was watching a film about the life of Jesus with some parishioners.  The temptations were done particularly cleverly.  The tempter appeared to Jesus with the suggestion:  ‘Turn these stones into bread.’  But that was not all the tempter said.  He went on to depict all the starving people the world.  Imagine, he said to Jesus, imagine what you could do to feed these if you follow my instructions.
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Download iBreviary for free | The iBreviary,iPhone,Don Paolo Padrini,
Download iBreviary for free
The iBreviary for the iPhone,  which became a bestseller when it was released more than a year ago,  is now downloadable for free.  The brainchild of Italian priest Don Paolo Padrini, the iBreviary includes a complete missal and principal prayers.
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Uganda: landslides sweep away villages  | Uganda,mudslide, Bududa,Mount Elgon,Uganda
Uganda: landslides sweep away villages
Burials are being held in Uganda for people killed in a mudslide which swept away three villages near the eastern town of Bududa. A massive landslide that swept the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda on Monday night killed at least 90 people, with 350 missing and feared dead. Read More ...
Uganda: Archbishop says some traditional customs a threat to Church | Uganda Bishops' Conference,polygamy, Archbishop Matthias Ssekamanya of Lugazi
Uganda: Archbishop says some traditional customs a threat to Church
The president of the Uganda Bishops' Conference has said that certain indigenous customs, including polygamy are one of the 'major challenges' facing the Church in his country.  Speaking during his ad limina visit to Rome, Archbishop Matthias Ssekamanya of Lugazi Read More ...