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February 16, 2021

Pope Francis modifies Vatican criminal code, citing ‘changing sensibilities’

February 16, 2021

These changes may affect the Vatican’s impending trial of the 39-year-old Italian woman Cecilia Marogna, who has been accused of embezzlement, which she denies.

Nigerian bishop laments continuing insecurity since seminarian’s killing a year ago

February 16, 2021

Sokoto, Nigeria, Feb 15, 2021 / 07:19 pm MT (CNA).- One year after the burial of Michael Nnadi, an 18-year-old Nigerian seminarian abducted and killed by gunmen, the local bishop has indicated his sorrow at the lack of progress in preventing abductions and murders. “It is quite tragic that one year later, we are still

Report: Catholic nuns join protests against Burma’s military coup

February 16, 2021

According to UCA News, Catholic nuns from a variety of communities in Burma have marched the streets, praying for the protestors and offering them food. Amid protests in the city of Myitkyina, the capital of the state of Kachin, nuns hung signs saying “No to dictatorship” and “Listen to the voices of people” outside of their convent.

Pope Francis praises Coptic Orthodox martyrs as ‘saints of all Christians’

February 16, 2021

In a video message for the “Day of Contemporary Martyrs” Feb. 15, the pope said, “I hold in my heart that baptism of blood, those twenty-one men baptized as Christians with water and the Spirit.”

Criminal, Sociopathic, Satanic — and a Story We’ve Heard Before

February 16, 2021

Ravi Zacharias, who died in May of last year, was American Evangelicalism’s superstar apologist. The movement’s flagship magazine, Christianity Today, headlined their recent report on him, “Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse During Massages, and a Rape Allegation.” The story is worse than that. Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore called it “a pattern