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Concern that Nicaragua repression could be "model" in region

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s government has closed seven radio stations this week owned by the Roman Catholic church, as well as two other outlets serving the largely rural northern area with a history of opposition

The Independent UK

Nicaragua's government shutters 6 church radio stations

Nicaraguan authorities have ordered the closures of six radio stations belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and surrounded one with riot police

The Independent UK

Salvadoran Archbishop praises government crackdown on gangs

The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador is praising a months-long state of emergency that has rounded of tens of thousands of suspects in a crackdown on gangs

The Independent UK

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Pope says genocide took place at Church schools in Canada for indigenous children

Pope Francis said on Saturday that what happened at residential schools that the Roman Catholic and other Christian Churches ran to forcefully assimilate Canada's indigenous children was genocide.

Reuters

Pope again asks for forgiveness as tour ends in Canada's north

Pope Francis again asked for forgiveness after meeting on Friday with residential school survivors in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, the last stop in his six-day visit to Canada to apologize to indigenous people for abuse in government schools run by the Roman Catholic Church.

Reuters

Pope seeks forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian residential schools

Pope Francis on Thursday asked for forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian schools for indigenous children run by Catholic orders, addressing a deep wound that many survivors wanted him to acknowledge during his apology tour in Canada.

Reuters

Canada asks France to extradite accused priest -French diplomatic source

France has received a request from Canada to extradite retired Roman Catholic priest Johannes Rivoire so he can face a charge of sexual abuse from when he worked in Canada's North, a French diplomatic source said.

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Pope Francis leaves Rome for Canada apology tour

Pope Francis left Rome on Sunday for a trip to Canada to apologise for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in residential schools where many indigenous children were abused.

Reuters

Canada's Inuit seek Pope's help to return accused priest from France

Canada's Inuit people will press Pope Francis to help return a retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse to face charges in Canada, a former political leader in the country's North said.

Reuters

Factbox: Key facts on Pope's Canada visit to apologize for residential school abuse

Pope Francis arrives in Canada on Sunday to apologize for the wrongs done to indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools.

Reuters

Ivana Trump’s Life to Be Celebrated at a Funeral Mass in NYC

Ivana Trump, an icon of 1980s style, wealth and excess and a businesswoman who helped her husband build an empire that launched him to the presidency, is set to be celebrated at a funeral Mass in New York City on Wednesday following her death last week. Ivana's three children with…

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Pope hopes Canada trip will help heal 'evil' done to indigenous people

Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a "pilgrimage of penance" that he hopes can help heal the wrongs done to indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools.

Reuters

Kicked out of Episcopal priesthood over sexual misconduct accusations, now overseeing a church in Berwyn

Rev. Luis Andrade, originally ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Ecuador, recently moved on to be a priest in a small, independent Catholic denomination.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jesuits in moment of silence in Mexico for murdered priests

Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church has began a special round of prayers for peace after two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were slain June 20

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Exclusive-Pope hopes China deal on bishops will be renewed soon

Pope Francis said that while the Vatican's secret and contested agreement with China on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops is not ideal, he hopes it can be renewed in October because the Church takes the long view.

The Independent UK

Mexican bishops to put photos of dead priests in churches

Mexico's Roman Catholic Council of Bishops is calling on parishes throughout the country to put photos of dead nuns and priests in their churches this Sunday and to hold Masses for all those killed in gang-fueled violence

The Independent UK

FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them

Reuters

Pope trip to Canada in July on course despite knee problem

Pope Francis will have at least five meetings with indigenous people during a trip to Canada in July, making good on a promise to apologise in the country for the Roman Catholic Church's role in abusive residential schools.

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Two Jesuit priests killed inside a church in northern Mexico

A statement from the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus in Mexico demanded justice and the return of the men’s bodies

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia paid $78.5 million in clergy sex abuse reparations — far less than anticipated

Under a reparations program for victims of sexual abuse launched in 2018, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid $78.5 million on 438 claims — far less than the $126 million estimated two years ago, according to a final report released Thursday.

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A tabernacle was stolen and an angel statue was beheaded at a Brooklyn church

The incident happened between 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, known as the "Notre Dame" of Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.

Reuters

List of new cardinals named by Pope Francis

Here is a list of the 21 men Pope Francis will install as Roman Catholic cardinals at a ceremony known as a consistory on Aug. 27.

Reuters

Pope names 21 new cardinals, putting stamp on Church's future

Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he would appoint 21 new cardinals in August, including an Italian leading the Church in Mongolia, again putting his stamp on the future of Catholicism.

The Independent UK

Nicaraguan bishop fasts to protest police harassment

A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua has begun an “indefinite fast” inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day

Daily Mirror

Calls for the Queen to say sorry over major church child abuse scandal in Canada

Community leaders have in recent years demanded apologies and reparations from the Anglican Church which ran 36 residential schools in Canada, the most of any religious denomination apart from the Roman Catholic Church

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