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1 week ago | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Jonathan Luxmoore
(OSV News) -- Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline across the traditionally Catholic country. "Public opinion is unanimous -- this site is not to be touched," said Polonia Castellanos Flórez, president of Abogados Cristianos, a foundation of Christian lawyers.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
THE Bulgarian Orthodox Church has marked the centenary of one of Europe’s worst terrorist attacks, when up to 250 people were killed and hundreds were injured by a bomb in the St Nedelya Cathedral, Sofia. “The audacious murder of members of the kingdom of Bulgaria’s state and military leadership in a holy temple of God, alongside numerous innocent victims, including children, was a grave sin and crime,” the new Patriarch of Bulgaria, Daniil (Nikolov), said.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
THE World Council of Churches (WCC) has called again for a permanent common celebration of Easter by all Christians, as “a concrete expression of the unity for which Christ prayed”. “The world is not reconciled — and it is questionable whether it is even trying to be,” the WCC said in a Holy Week message.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
CHURCHES in Ukraine and abroad have condemned the latest Russian attack on Ukrainian civilians, which left at least 35 dead and more than 100 injured, during Palm Sunday services in the north-eastern city of Sumy. “At the beginning of the Holy Week of Easter, the celebration of Palm Sunday was transformed into a day of lamentation by yet another Russian missile attack,” the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Revd Professor Jerry Pillay, said.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Jonathan Luxmoore |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
(OSV News) -- Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline across the traditionally Catholic country. "Public opinion is unanimous -- this site is not to be touched," said Polonia Castellanos Flórez, president of Abogados Cristianos, a foundation of Christian lawyers.
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1 week ago | 
catholicreview.org | Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic groups have criticized Spain’s bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline across the traditionally Catholic country. “Public opinion is unanimous — this site is not to be touched,” said Polonia Castellanos Flórez, president of Abogados Cristianos, a foundation of Christian lawyers. “Although we know our bishops are under government pressure, we’re nevertheless asking them to stand firm.
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1 week ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Jonathan Luxmoore |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
(OSV News) -- Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline across the traditionally Catholic country. "Public opinion is unanimous -- this site is not to be touched," said Polonia Castellanos Flórez, president of Abogados Cristianos, a foundation of Christian lawyers.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
AN ITALIAN bishop has asked police to stop the online sale of suspicious relics from the London-born “internet saint” Blessed Carlo Acutis, before his canonisation in Rome later this month. “There is an internet market, with a price list, for relics relating to various saints, including our St Francis — something impossible to accept,” the Bishop of Assisi-Nocera, the Rt Revd Domenico Sorrentino, explained. “We don’t know whether these ones are true or false.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
CHURCH leaders in Ukraine have deplored a Russian missile attack that killed 20 civilians, half of them children, in President Zelensky’s home town. “Preachers of the so-called Russian world seek to convince everyone that the modern Russian state is the only force protecting goodness and truth — that its Church, headed by the Moscow Patriarchate, is the only true Church of Christ, united with God,” the Primate of Ukraine’s independent Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany (Dumenko), said.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore
GERMAN Protestants have commemorated one of their foremost theologians on the 80th anniversary of his execution during the final days of the Second World War. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived to be only 39 — yet hardly any 20th-century Protestant had such a profound impact on Church and society,” the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) said on its website.
