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By Catholic News Service
YANGON, Myanmar — Soldiers in Myanmar used a Catholic church as a kitchen and laid mines around the building, church sources told ucanews.com. A video posted by local defense forces showed dirty floors and pews covered with dust along with cooking pots and military uniforms inside Mother of God Church in Mobye, in Shan state. […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — The painful memories of the persecution of Christians in Kazakhstan serve as a reminder that peace “must be achieved anew each day,” Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Sept. 14 at the Expo grounds in Nur-Sultan, the pope said that, much like the people […]
Global
By Doreen Abi Raad
BEIRUT — In London, prayers now rise up to God from the shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, and also from Lebanon, where the shrine’s icon originated. The shrine is in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory in central London, but the nun who wrote the icon is from […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Religious persecution of Catholics has ramped up in the Central American country.
Art
By Nora Hamerman
For an abundance of devotional art, the Walters Art Museum just up the road and near the Basilica of the Assumption in downtown Baltimore is the destination to seek out — and perhaps the best anywhere in the United States. On a recent visit, more than 60 different images of the Blessed Virgin Mary were […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Sometimes gold flakes surface along the periphery. The first or last picture in a photo shoot is the winner. The opening or final page of a book delivers the line that you hold to your heart. Or the wind-down of an interview — right after the formal conversation has wrapped up — produces a comment […]
Local
By Kimberley A. Heatherington
With cloudiness muddling the skies and scattered raindrops falling, the weather Sept. 11 was not particularly evocative of a certain bright, clear, almost-fall morning 21 years ago. But unlike the shocking and chaotic day in 2001 that witnessed the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, this Sept. 11 was instead a tranquil opportunity for reflection, […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
A convocation of women religious was held at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ridge Sept. 10. Religious came from seven different orders: Handmaids of Reparation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist; Sisters of Our Lady of La Salette; Daughters of St. Paul; Dominican Sisters (Congregation of St. Cecilia); […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — Arriving in Kazakhstan, a country that borders Russia, Pope Francis said he came as a “pilgrim of peace” at a time when “our world urgently needs peace; it needs to recover harmony.” “I am visiting you in the course of the senseless and tragic war that broke out with the invasion of […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
A number of years ago, my youngest brother — on R&R from a U.S. Agency for International Development assignment in Fallujah, Iraq, during some of the worst violence — sleep-walked out a window. He fractured his jaw, broke both wrists and easily could have died. His relationship with sleep was upended. Most of us, thankfully, […]
