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Quarantined B.C. couple relying on faith to get them through virus threat

February 14, 2020

The morning routine hasn’t changed for Marichu and Ding Camales-Torrijos since they and all other passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship were quarantined following discovery of the coronavirus on board. The couple has breakfast delivered by mask-wearing cruise staff, they listen to live updates from the captain about the spread of the virus, they

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Pope ‘dreams’ of Amazon where rights and culture are respected

February 12, 2020

Pope Francis said he dreams of an Amazon region where the rights of the poor and indigenous are respected, local cultures are preserved, nature is protected, and the Catholic Church is present and active with “Amazonian features.” In his apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazonia), Pope Francis made no mention of the idea of ordaining

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Cardinal Marx won’t seek re-election as head of German bishops

February 11, 2020

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, 66, announced that at the full plenary session of the German bishops’ conference in early March, he will not be a candidate for another term as president. “My consideration is that at the end of a possible second term of office I would be 72 years old, and then I would also

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Asia Bibi, who fled to Canada, speaks of ‘iron collar’ after death sentence for blasphemy

January 31, 2020

Asia Bibi, the Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, described herself as “a prisoner of fanaticism” in her newly published autobiography. The mother of five was sentenced to death on insubstantial evidence in 2010 after being accused of blasphemy in a dispute over a cup of water

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