Serving a Joyful Community
Two Maryknoll Seminarians Patrick Okok and Matthew Sim preparing for ordination bring mission experience to a Chicago parish.
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Tag: COVID-19 pandemic
COVID Complicated HIV Pandemic, But Faith Groups Praised for Response
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges of HIV in many areas, but leaders of the global response to HIV and AIDS who gathered in Montreal for the International AIDS Conference praised faith leaders for their contribution to fighting the four decade-old AIDS pandemic.
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Pope to Diplomatic Corps: Pandemic Calls for ‘Reality Check’
Pope Francis urges diplomatic corps to eschew divisions and decries “cancel culture” as ideological colonization.
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Latin American Bishops to Confront Increasing Poverty after COVID-19
Latin America accounts for one-third of all COVID-19 pandemic deaths and its economies contracted...
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Church Continues to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
The Catholic Church continues to play a crucial role fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries around the world.
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Sisters Unload Food Feed Hungry in Ho Chi Minh City’s COVID Crackdown
On July 9, Vietnam’s largest city started 15 days of tough measures to restrict movement to deal with the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19, reported Global Sisters Report.
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Grandparents, Elderly Provide Foundation for Future Generations, Pope Says
The World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is an opportunity for young and old alike to be “angels,” who care, console and caress, Pope Francis says.
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Pope Starts Monthlong, Global Rosary to End Pandemic
Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for Mary’s intercession for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lack of Cooperation Seen as Biggest Failure in Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is—even wealthy, technologically advanced nations—to work together to stop an urgent crisis.
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Thousands of People Once Again Fleeing Venezuela
New wave of refugees prompts Church groups in Colombia to reactivate aid programs suspended when...
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Pope to Take Post-Pandemic Pleas to Global Stage
Pope Francis to address the COVID-19 pandemic during the U.N. General Assembly. By Cindy Wooden,...
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