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Who was Father Pierre al-Rahi, the Maronite priest who died helping the wounded in Lebanon?
Thousands of people gathered March 11 in the border town of Qlayaa in southern Lebanon to bid farewell to Father…
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Nicaraguan dictatorship expels another priest: 309 religious forced to leave so far
The Nicaraguan dictatorship has expelled Father José Concepción Reyes Mairena of the Diocese of León, bringing the total number of…
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Priest reported missing found dead in southern Mexico
Civil and Catholic Church authorities reported the discovery of the body of Father Juan Manuel Zavala Madrigal, a 53-year-old Mexican…
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Pope Leo XIV congratulates world’s oldest priest on his 110th birthday
Pope Leo XIV thanked a 110-year-old priest from the Diocese of Fulda, Germany, for his “long, faithful, and devoted priestly…
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Priest scrutinized for letters written on behalf of 2 notorious Mexican drug traffickers
Mexican priest José Dolores Aguayo González, known as Father Lolo, has received criticism from the archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Francisco…
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Meet the priest who grew up in the Peruvian Andes and was confirmed by Pope Leo XIV
Erlin Pérez Vásquez was born on Dec. 8, 1999, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a coincidence that his family…
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Catholic priest who was abducted in Cameroon appointed auxiliary bishop
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father John Berinyuy Tatah, who was among six Catholic priests abducted in Cameroon’s Bamenda Archdiocese…
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Meet the priest serving ‘even nonbelievers’ at the Milan Winter Olympics
The role of chaplains at the Olympic Games is not just for Catholics and other believers, according to a priest…
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Catholic News - Americas
Spanish priest calls for ‘more missionaries’ in ‘perilous’ southern Mexico
Spanish missionary Father Christopher Hartley remains neither complacent nor afraid as he brings the Gospel to the materially and spiritually…
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Mexican priest appeals to violent criminals to repent and convert this Lent
With Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, Father Manuel Corral, canon of the metropolitan cathedral of Mexico City, called…
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