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'We're still in the war': Priest battles flow of firearms in Chicago

- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Dec 11, 2018
'We're still in the war': Priest battles flow of firearms in Chicago

Father Michael Pfleger, the activist priest at Chicago's St. Sabina Church who was the inspiration for a character in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" laments the city's gun violence: ''We're still in the war. We're not coming home from it. We live it."
- Church in Africa
- Dec 11, 2018
African bishops meet to discuss illegal migration from the continent

Bishops in Africa say they need to work together to mitigate the risks of illegal immigration.
- Church in UK and Ireland
- Dec 11, 2018
New survey documents how people deal with grief at Christmas

For most people, Christmas is a joyous time for family and friends; but this joy can turn to grief when those family and friends have died.
- Crux in Nicaragua
- Dec 11, 2018
Nicaragua’s youngest, newest bishop says Church wants government with ‘values’

Bishop Rolando Alvarez is the shortest, youngest and newest bishop of Nicaragua, appointed in 2011 at the age of 44. Despite all that, or maybe because of it, he didn’t get a soft landing in his first gig.
- Church in Asia/Oceania
- Dec 11, 2018
Religious sister accusing bishop of rape: 'No nun should have to go through this'

A nun in India accusing a bishop of raping her says she wants “the Church to recognise that I was wronged.”

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