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National multi-faith prayer effort hopes to unite Canadians

March 30, 2020

Two Ottawa-based faith leaders have joined together to offer comforting words to Canadians during the COVID-19 health crisis that has closed most places of worship across the country. Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast and Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka, former co-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, have co-authored a National Prayer for Canada that they hope

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Pandemic is a call to live differently not God’s judgment, pope says in special blessing

March 27, 2020

The worldwide coronavirus pandemic is not God’s judgment on humanity, but God’s call on people to judge what is most important to them and resolve to act accordingly from now on, Pope Francis said. Addressing God, the pope said that “it is not the time of your judgment, but of our judgment: a time to

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Pope joins Christian leaders in prayer for pandemic’s end

March 25, 2020

Joined by Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant church leaders and faithful from around the world, Pope Francis led the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, imploring God’s mercy on humanity amid the coronavirus pandemic. “As trusting sons and daughters, we turn to the Lord. We do it every day, several times a day, but at this moment

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Forty years after St. Romero’s assassination, El Salvador may see more beatified martyrs

March 24, 2020

As the Catholic Church in El Salvador declared a jubilee year for its martyrs, whispers were already circulating, hinting at the possibility that the country would receive news from Rome of several new beatified Salvadorans this year. The whispers began with a poster circulated in early January on the occasion of the World Day of

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Pope hails fallen ‘heroes’ caring for COVID-19 patients

March 24, 2020

With the number of priests and religious dying from coronavirus-related illnesses rising, Pope Francis offered his prayers for those who died after being infected helping COVID-19 patients and their communities. At least 50 priests, four nuns and at least 24 doctors have lost their lives and 5,000 health care workers in Italy were known to