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- Church in the Americas
- Feb 20, 2020
Although far from home, Pope Francis still shows his closeness to Argentina

Though he hasn’t gone back home since being elected as the Successor of Peter in March 2013, Francis is still close to Argentina, and that the Argentine Church is close to him, with several examples of this relationship in the past week.
- News Analysis
- Feb 19, 2020
Bari trip gives Pope a chance to help save Christianity in the Middle East

A lethal combination of insecurity, political chaos, economic stagnation and outright persecution have created a toxic environment in the Middle East – for almost everyone, of course, but in a special way for Christians.
- Church in the Americas
- Feb 20, 2020
Chilean bishop seeks management training amid abuse crisis cleanup

Living with acute poverty, inequality and the aftermath of what is arguably the Catholic Church’s worst clerical sexual abuse crisis, Chilean Bishop Tomislav Francisco Koljatic Maroevic is seeking what for some might seem like a basic: Management training.
- Church in the US
- Feb 20, 2020
Notre Dame funds research, raises awareness on sex abuse crisis

Notre Dame University has given an update on its response to the clerical abuse crisis.
- Vatican
- Feb 20, 2020
Survivors storm Rome to mark anniversary of global abuse summit

This week clerical abuse survivors from around the world have flocked to Rome to mark the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s global summit on child protection, which took place at the Vatican in February of last year.

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