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Kosovo to dedicate cathedral named for Mother Teresa
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 17, 2017
Mostly ethnic Albanian Muslims make up at least 90 percent of the 2.1 million inhabitants of Kosovo, whose 2008 independence from Serbia has been recognized by 111 of the United Nations’ 193 member-states, but not by the Vatican. The Catholic apostolic administration, founded in 2000 with 24 parishes, officially accounts for 3.5 percent of the population, although church leaders put numbers higher.
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Russian church leader hopes cardinal tackles local issues during visit
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 14, 2017
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will be the most senior Vatican figure in Moscow in nearly two decades when he visits August 20-24. Catholics in Russia hopes he uses the visit to help the local Catholic community, in addition to speaking about international affairs and ties with the dominant Russian Orthodox Church.
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Dutch cardinal: Bishops warned of euthanasia’s slippery slope
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 2, 2017
The Netherlands became the world’s first country to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2002 and has since witnessed a rapid increase in related deaths, with 20 now occurring daily, according to a May report by the Regional Euthanasia Commission. A new assisted suicide bill, introduced in 2016, would allow healthy people suffering nonmedical conditions such as “loneliness, bereavement, limited mobility and decline from old age” to be helped to die by a nonprofessional “assistant-in-suicide.”
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German bishops regret lawmakers’ vote to legalize same-sex marriage
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- July 2, 2017
Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin said about the decision, “it is worth noting how many who long fought the institution of marriage have now become fervent advocates of ‘marriage for all,’ and how prudent convictions about marriage have been abandoned citing changing times and popular moods.”
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Zambia bishops, faith leaders warn of crisis if dictatorship results
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- June 23, 2017
In a statement, religious leaders in Zambia have criticized the actions of the country’s president, Edgar Lungu, who has harassed the media creating a situation where human rights are at risk. The leaders expressed their concerns that the president is “creating a new dictatorship.”
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Archbishop to become Lithuania’s first beatified Soviet-era martyr
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- June 10, 2017
Soviet-era Lithuanian Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis will be beatified on June 25 in Vilnius. Archbishop Gintaras Grusas of Vilnius, president of Lithuania’s bishops’ conference, said the martyred prelate had “offered up his sufferings for the conversion of Russia,” while also “moving the church forward” by instructing clergy to remain with their flock even if it meant persecution and exile.
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