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‘To share in order to grow’ – Working together to assist internally displaced persons – Vatican News
Ahead of the 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Eric Estrada Buenaño tells his story about being welcomed into a new family in Venezuela.
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Greece builds diplomatic front against Turkey’s oil prospecting – Vatican News
Greece is continuing to build up a wide-ranging diplomatic front against Turkey, which it accuses of illegal oil-prospecting in Greek-controlled waters.
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German church leads crowd funding to buy vessel to aid stranded Mediterranean migrants
Germany’s main Protestant church led a crowdfunding effort that purchased the rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 that is ready for work in the Mediterranean Sea to help migrants trying to reach Europe from North Africa.
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Turkmen Court Sentences Brothers Eldor and Sanjarbek Saburov to Two Years in Prison
On August 6, 2020, a Turkmen court sentenced Brothers Eldor and Sanjarbek Saburov to two years in prison for their conscientious objection to military service. The siblings are 21 and 25 years old, respectively. The court refused the brothers’ request to appeal. This is the second time both were convicted for their neutrality.
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John Hume praised by Catholics, Protestants and world leaders
John Hume was a Catholic nationalist who stood for Ireland as a unitary state, but he was also a peacemaker and straddled the divide into the mainly Protestant unionist camp at a time when Northern Ireland was in a state of deep conflict in the last century.
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Alarm raised about ongoing crisis in Nigeria at world churches’ meeting
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is experiencing concurrent crises this year, highlighted in a recent spate of violent attacks in the north of the country, and the World Council of Churches has expressed alarm about the destruction to life taking place.
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World Council of Churches names 2022 date for 11th Assembly in Germany
The executive committee of the World Council of Churches has approved a new date for the WCC 11th Assembly, which will now be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from August 31 to September 8, 2022.
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Book Trailer Launched for Massimo Introvigne’s Book on The Church of Almighty God
Marco Respinti, Director of Bitter Winter reports that it has already introduced to its readers the new book by its editor-in-chief Massimo Introvigne, Inside The Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. In this video book trailer, its author Massimo Introvigne explains some key…
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Religious liberty put at risk by Hong Kong security law says Asian cardinal
The Catholic cardinal who heads Asian bishops’ body has issued a warning on Hong Kong’s new Chinese-made security law noting that religious freedom in China faces severe restrictions. But the Anglican archbishop of Hong Kong has backed the new legislation.
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Religion and government in the United States – eight facts from Pew
Many Americans believe in the separation of church and state, but others, often conservative evangelicals often argue that the notion is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution. Dalia Fahmy wrote for Pew Research on July that separation of church and state has come under scrutiny again this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court…