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Indian Church leaders: Child rape charges concocted against priest, nurse

Catholic News Service, Church in Asia
Sep 13, 2019

A priest and a nurse working at a Catholic school in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand have been held in custody after being charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl.

Court allows Trump administration to bar asylum-seekers for now

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 13, 2019

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order late Sept. 11 that will temporarily allow the Trump administration to enforce its new rule preventing many Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, while the legal battle over this issue continues to work its way through the courts.

Fugitive priest faces sentencing in US sex abuse case

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 13, 2019

A former Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty earlier this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.

New Vatican law on abuse cover-up has a hit-and-miss week

News Analysis
Sep 13, 2019

When the Vatican announced new procedures to hold bishops accountable in May, the main question was: Will it work?

Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., files bankruptcy

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 12, 2019

In the wake of nearly 50 lawsuits filed against it since New York’s Child Victims Act took effect Aug. 14, the Diocese of Rochester filed for reorganization Sept. 12, under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

El Paso Diocese uses new fund to help migrants near border

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 12, 2019

During the summer of 2019, the bishop of El Paso, Texas, decided his diocese would open a fund to help a growing number of immigrants piling into shelters on the other side of the U.S. border in the sister city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.