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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.

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