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January 19, 2012

CRS raises awareness on rape in Congo

More than two years ago, a Congolese woman in her 40s was attacked and raped on her way home from selling produce at an Idjwi market. When she told her husband, they went to the village chief, who scolded the woman for resisting her two attackers.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore maternity home suspends operations because of finances

Sparrow House, Baltimore’s only maternity home for women in crisis pregnancies, suspended operations July 1 – a victim of a decline in financial support. The four women living at the house were relocated to other maternity homes throughout the state.

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January 19, 2012

Pope grants papal delegate broad powers over Legionaries

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI has given his new papal delegate broad powers of authority over the Legionaries of Christ as part of a major Vatican-led reform of the order.

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January 19, 2012

Sudan’s bishops decry lack of progress toward Jan. 9 referendum

JUBA, Sudan – With less than six months to go before the Jan. 9 referendum on the future of Southern Sudan as an independent nation, Sudan’s bishops have expressed concern that there is not enough time to finish preparations.

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January 19, 2012

Church-run dining room on the border serves deportees

NOGALES, Mexico – Victor Hernandez Martinez, a blacksmith with his own business near Seattle, was on his third day at the “Centro para Atenci›n a los Migrantes Deportados,” the Center to Help Deported Migrants, a few hundred yards inside the Mexican border from Arizona.

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January 19, 2012

National leaders say spirituality a key component of Catholic Daughters

WASHINGTON – Libby Ramirez, who just completed two years as the national regent of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and her successor, Joanne Tomassi, said that beyond all the worthwhile programs members carry out, spirituality is the most important part of the organization.

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January 19, 2012

Voting report blurred vital distinctions

Regarding how legislators voted on issues of interest to the Maryland Catholic Conference (CR, July 15): There was near-total agreement with the MCC position on abortion funding and stem cell funding by legislators from legislative districts 1-9. In Baltimore City districts, by contrast, there was near-total opposition to the MCC position on these two important...

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January 19, 2012

At church’s universal center, there’s more news than sex abuse

VATICAN CITY – A small article in the Vatican’s missionary newsletter, Fides, recently announced the first diocesan-wide meeting of the Kaifeng Diocese in China’s Henan province.

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January 19, 2012

Pope begins writing last volume on life of Jesus

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is dedicating his holiday to writing the third and final volume in his series on the life of Jesus, which will cover his infancy and childhood.

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January 19, 2012

Church’s work on disabilities helped bring about law marking 20th year

WASHINGTON – When the Americans with Disabilities Act was being debated in the U.S. Senate 20 years ago, excerpts from the pastoral statement on people with disabilities issued by the U.S. bishops 12 years earlier were read on the Senate floor in support of its passage.

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January 19, 2012

Two U.S. bishops say Mass near Mexican border to pray for end to violence

EL PASO, Texas – Bishop Armando X. Ochoa of El Paso and Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, celebrated Mass July 14 near the foot of a bridge that crosses the Rio Grande to pray for an end to violence on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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January 19, 2012

African immigrants work to define their place in diverse US church

TUCSON, Ariz. – Immigrant African Catholics in the United States are working to define a place for themselves and their cultures amid the melting pot of the U.S. church.

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