Archbishop Angelo Becciu

Pope recognizes martyrdom of Romanian bishops, Italian missionary
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Mar 20, 2019
Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of an Italian missionary killed in Myanmar and seven Romanian Catholic bishops — one of whom was secretly named a cardinal by St. Paul VI — persecuted during the communist era.
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Spanish Church honors martyred seminarians
- Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
- Mar 14, 2019
A 22-year-old who was shot 11 times in the street and a 21-year-old stabbed to death after being imprisoned in his local church are among a group of nine Spanish seminarians beatified as Catholic martyrs from the country’s civil war persecution.
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Catholic monks killed in Algeria’s civil war are beatified
- Associated Press, Church in Africa
- Dec 8, 2018
A cardinal dispatched by the Vatican is holding a beatification ceremony for 19 monks, nuns and other Catholics who were killed during Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s.
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Church leaders, Italian government join forces to fight growing number of sects
- Church in Europe
- Nov 12, 2018
High ranking Church and goverment representatives gathered in Rome last week to discuss the growing phenomenon of sects in Italy.
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Newly beatified Guatemalans exemplified courage, cardinal says
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the Americas
- Oct 31, 2018
Presiding at a Mass for the beatification of martyrs Father Tullio Maruzzo and Luis Obdulio Arroyo Navarro, a Vatican official prayed that “their martyrdom would inspire in everyone courageous Christian witness, a consistent life and boundless commitment to others.”
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Fight against the devil is spiritual ‘urban’ warfare, cardinal says
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Oct 1, 2018
The most crucial battle against the devil is the one that Christians fight within themselves daily to resist selfish temptations that lead to destructive ends, a top Vatican official said.
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