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Buffalo, N.Y., Jan 3, 2020 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- A lawsuit against the Diocese of Buffalo and retired Bishop Donald Trautman claim they covered up a New York priest’s sex abuse of a 10-year-old boy in the mid-1980s, though the bishop has previously denied accusations he has ever covered up abuse. Trautman, now 83, retired… Read More »

Fort Worth, Texas, Jan 3, 2020 / 05:12 pm (CNA).- After a Texas judge on Thursday allowed a hospital to stop medical treatment for Tinslee Lewis, a terminally ill child in Fort Worth, the local bishop offered to help her family seek care in a Catholic healthcare facility. Lewis was born prematurely Feb. 1, 2019,… Read More »

Portland, Maine, Jan 3, 2020 / 05:05 pm (CNA).- At Mass on Wednesday, Bishop Robert Deeley of Portland urged Catholics not to tolerate “any kind” of religious prejudice, following a spate of violent attacks against Jews and Christians in the U.S. during December. "We need to work to overcome any form of religious prejudice,” Deely… Read More »

Washington D.C., Jan 3, 2020 / 03:45 pm (CNA).- Christian communities in the Middle East are likely to suffer renewed persecution amid the instability following recent U.S. airstrikes, experts have warned.  Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, was killed in a Jan. 3 airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, ordered by… Read More »

Hong Kong, China, Jan 3, 2020 / 12:35 pm (CNA).- Burmese Cardinal Muang Bo has signed an open letter condemning police brutality in Hong Kong over the Christmas holidays. “We have been horrified to see reports of police firing teargas, pepper-spray and rubber bullets at close-range at shoppers, peaceful protesters and innocent by-standers on Christmas… Read More »

Washington D.C., Jan 3, 2020 / 10:43 am (CNA).- Anticipating its observance of National Migration Week, the US bishops' conference said Thursday that it stands in solidarity with immigrants and refugees. National Migration Week is observed this year Jan. 5-11, with the theme “Promoting a Church and a World for All.” “As a founding principle… Read More »

Vatican City, Jan 3, 2020 / 05:31 am (CNA).- The principles of solidarity and subsidiarity should be used together to ensure everyone, including the person experiencing poverty, has access to suitable healthcare, Pope Francis said Friday. In his message for the World Day of the Sick Jan. 3, the pope said it is a matter… Read More »

New York City, N.Y., Jan 3, 2020 / 12:33 am (CNA).- The past decade saw troubling levels of violence against children, with some 45 children seeing their rights “gravely violated” each day during the 2010s, a new report from the United Nations said. In total, more than 170,000 children were affected by conflict throughout the… Read More »

Mexico City, Mexico, Jan 2, 2020 / 05:51 pm (CNA).- The president of the Mexican bishops' conference expressed his support for a bill that would grant more freedom to the Church in the country, loosening long-established restrictions on religious groups. “I like the proposal a lot because it is framed in terms of human rights,”… Read More »

Maiduguri, Nigeria, Jan 2, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- African Church leaders have responded to the reported Dec. 26 execution of 11 Nigerian Christians by a terrorist group affiliated with the Isamic State. “We woke up a day after Christmas to the horrible news of the gruesome decapitation of Christian hostages by the Islamic State… Read More »