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Remarks by Ludiya Abdalla

Archdiocese of Baltimore
April 29, 2019

I had a unique experience with racism within the Catholic Church from a young age. Growing up, Catholicism was not only part of my life, but my community.  In the early years of my life, I remember thinking the Catholic Church was a place of happiness and a diverse beautiful faith. As I got older, […]

Young people light candles near the closed door of a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28, 2019, during a vigil in memory of the victims of a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter . (CNS photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)

Churches padlocked, schools closed week after Sri Lanka attacks

Catholic News Service
April 29, 2019
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Fears of suicide bomb attacks kept many Christians and Muslims away from churches and mosques for Sunday Mass and Friday prayers a week after the Easter bombings.

Bishop Enrique Angelelli Carletti of La Rioja, Argentina, is shown in a 1974 photo taken in Germany with two collaborators from his rural movement ministry, which promoted co-ops for small farmers. The bishop's vehicle was run off the road by assassins in 1976. (CNS photo/courtesy of Rafael Sifre)

Pope applauds beatification of Argentine martyrs

Junno Arocho Esteves
April 29, 2019
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Pope Francis applauded the beatification of four Argentine martyrs — a bishop, two priests and a layman — who were murdered early in the country’s seven-year long “Dirty War.”

A barber cuts a man's hair at his shop in Hinche, Haiti, Feb. 13, 2015. Christian hairdressers, beauticians and barbers can live their faith by being kind and courteous to their clients and cutting out the gossip and petty chitchat, Pope Francis said. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Pope to hairdressers: Cut the gossip, highlight politeness

Carol Glatz
April 29, 2019
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Christian hairdressers, beauticians and barbers can live their faith by being kind and courteous to their clients and cutting out the gossip and petty chitchat, Pope Francis said.

Attendees are seen during an interfaith memorial service April 24, 2019, at Sri Lanka's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City. The mission hosted the event to remember the victims and all people affected by the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Sri Lanka’s U.N. mission hosts memorial service for victims of attacks

Catholic News Service
April 27, 2019
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All Sri Lankans “are going through one of the saddest and most devastating periods of our history,” Father Nalaka Silva told those gathered at an evening interfaith memorial service April 24 in New York for the victims and all people affected by the Easter terrorist attacks.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Divine Mercy Sunday Vigil Mass, 100th Anniversary Mt. St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus Council № 1965

Archbishop William E. Lori
April 27, 2019
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As Archbishop of Baltimore and Supreme Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus I am very happy to join you this evening to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Council № 1965 here at Mount Saint Mary’s University, the oldest college council in continuous operation in the entire Order.

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