Egyptian authorities have arrested four men and two women suspected to be members of a terrorist cell behind a failed suicide attack on a church in Qalubiya governorate, the interior ministry said in a statement last Sunday.
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Parents from Argentina’s ‘Brady Bunch’ Will Speak at World Meeting of Families
“The person who falls in love with me, will have to fall in love with the four of us,” is what Pablo Lonegro told Liliana Perez when they met over two decades ago. Soon after, the friendship they’d fostered after meeting turned to love, and they married, personifying the real-life version of the 1968 classic film “Yours, Mine and Ours” or the ’70s television series “The Brady Bunch.”
Senators in Pope’s Argentina Reject Liberalization of Abortion
Senators in Pope Francis’ native Argentina voted against a bill that would have legalized abortion on demand until week 14 of a pregnancy early Aug. 9, following a marathon session that came as the latest twist in a three-month national debate marked with massive public rallies both in favor and against the measure.
Irish Pro-Life Leader: ‘Near-Total Media Bias’ Behind Referendum Defeat
The referendum result was a wound to the soul, perhaps the darkest day in Ireland’s history. An unspeakable cruelty will now be inflicted on the most innocent of all our people, on our preborn children. Worst of all, two thirds of the Irish people are now complicit in this cruelty. It bears their stamp: every abortion is one they voted for, even though many of those votes were won by a relentless campaign of misinformation and deceit.
Iraqi Christians Struggle to Rebuild After ISIS
When ISIS stormed into the villages of Karamless and Qaraqosh in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains on August 6, 2014, the Feast of the Transfiguration took on a whole new meaning for Christians, with ISIS burning and looting their homes and churches while inhabitants fled for their lives.
Retrace the Footsteps of the Flight of the Holy Family
Two thousand years ago, the Holy Family fled to Egypt to take refuge from the persecution of King Herod. Today, Christians are invited to make a pilgrimage in their footsteps.
Pope Changes Teaching on Death Penalty, Now ‘Inadmissible’
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the death penalty now is no longer admissible under any circumstances.
Nicaraguans Rally Behind the Catholic Church
According to tens of thousands who rallied in Nicaragua on July 28 in defense of the Catholic Church, particularly the bishops, the prelates are “neither terrorists nor coup-mongers, [but] shepherds with the smell of their sheep.”
In Chile, ‘Historic Trial’ On Clerical Sexual Abuse
A Chilean prosecutor last weekend announced plans to bring an “historical trial” against the Catholic Church for attempting to hide or eliminate evidence related to clerical sexual abuse, confirming what Pope Francis said in May in a letter to the country’s bishops’ conference: “We know that there were religious who destroyed evidence.”
Catholics Help Victims of Indonesian Earthquake
Catholic groups have collected and are distributing aid for thousands of people affected by a deadly earthquake that struck Lombok, Indonesia’s popular tourist island.