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Pope Francis to visit Lesbos next week in show of support for migrants, says Greek government

Migrants, most of them from Pakistan, protest against the EU- Turkey migration deal inside the entrance of Moria camp in the Greek island of Lesbos (AP)

The government have said Francis will visit the island from April 14-15

Bertha Isabel Zuniga Caceres, daughter of  murder victim (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Daughter of murdered Honduran activist calls for full investigation into killing

Berta Cáceres’s family ask US authorities to push the Honduran government to set up an independent investigation

Franciscan monks respond to call to care for refugees (CNS photo/Alessandro Di Meo, EPA)

Franciscan convent opens doors to offer refugees shelter

Convent in Italy to provide accommodation and care to those fleeing war

A man breaks down during opening ceremonies as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission prepares to hear testimony in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, in 2011. (CNS photo/ Michael Swan, The Catholic Register)

Nuncio says Pope considering invitation to visit Canada

There are demands for the Pope to apologise for the Church’s role in running Indian residential schools

Gov Phil Bryant (AP)

Mississippi governor signs religious freedom bill

Gov Phil Bryant signed the law allowing businesses to refuse to serve same-sex couples

Migrants, most of them from Pakistan, protest against the EU- Turkey migration deal inside the entrance of Moria camp in the Greek island of Lesbos (AP)

Pope Francis to visit Lesbos next week in show of support for migrants, says Greek government

The government have said Francis will visit the island from April 14-15

Cardinal Dolan (CNS)

Abortion drug guideline changes criticised by New York cardinal

The Archbishop of New York says new drug guidelines will open ‘an ever-widening door to abortion’

South African president Jacob Zuma (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Church leaders call for South African President Zuma to resign

The South African Council of Churches labelled the president ‘dishonest’

Cardinal Nichols to attend a UN conference on human trafficking (CNS)

‘Courageous’ women religious are crucial in fight against human trafficking, says Cardinal Nichols

The Archbishop of Westminster will encourage a greater global response to modern slavery at a UN conference

The ruined Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain (AP)

Bones of saint ‘found in ruins of monastery destroyed by ISIS’

St Elian monastery, in the recaptured town of Qaryatain, was bulldozed by the terrorist group last summer

Local elections will take place across Scotland on 5 May (PA)

Bishops urge Scottish Catholics to ‘shape a better society’ by taking active role in politics

A letter signed by the Bishops of Scotland instructs Catholics to have ‘greater participation in the political process’

The amendment would allow asylum seekers, whose applications had not been processed within six months, to begin working despite their legal status (PA)

Church agency backs proposal to allow asylum seekers right to work in UK

CSAN has endorsed Lord Alton’s proposed amendment to the Immigration Bill

Pope Francis in St Peter's Square (CNS)

Safety concerns over site of Pope’s World Youth Day appearance leaked

Leaked report says the site in Poland poses a ‘high risk for the life and health of people’

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A pilgrim holds a candle in front of the statue of Mary at the grotto at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

The best way to experience Lourdes

Happy 60th Anniversary to the Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust

Fr Walter Ciszek

Help abducted priests by praying to the clergy who have gone before them

It’s easy to feel powerless when a good priest such as Fr Tom Uzhunnalil is abducted, but we can pray to the souls of priests who were imprisoned unfairly

Chinese Catholics receive Communion in 2012 during Christmas Eve Mass in Beijing (CNS)

The Vatican is seeking cordial relations with China when it should be standing up for persecuted Catholics

If Vatican diplomacy is contemplating a compromise with China it would be a huge defeat for religious liberty

A detail from Fra Angelico's Madonna of Humility (1433–1435)

The Feast of the Annunciation delivers an unequivocal pro-life message

Other Churches may quibble about a time when a baby is ‘less’ than human, but the Feast of the Annunciation tells it like it is

The Mossack Fonseca law firm, at the The Arango Orillac Building, in Panama City (AP)

Panama Papers lay bare how billions can be made by exploiting of political power

The sheer volume of the Panama Papers will not only ensure that this saga will run and run, but it will also provide protection for many of those involved

The Pope Emeritus prepares to greet Pope Francis during the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica (CNS photo/Stefano Spaziani, pool)

The best way for Catholics to mark the Reformation is to celebrate the papacy

The splintering of Protestantism is the best advert for a pope ever devised

Edgar Ortega, one of eight converts received into the Church during the Easter Vigil at St Clare of Assisi Mission church in Acworth, Georgia (CNS )

Stop the doom and gloom: the statistics show that converts stay Catholic

Bogus statistics ‘show’ that most converts drift away. Solid research from the US suggests the opposite

Portrait of British author Graham Greene taken in 1984 (AP Photo)

Why Graham Greene’s novels will stand the test of time and Martin Amis’s won’t

Greene understood the human condition in a way that secular novelists cannot

Monsignor Doyle (left) with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, 1979

Obituary: Mgr Bernard Doyle

A priest with high intellect and formidable negotiating abilities who did much for Catholic higher education

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The American Catholic dilemma

Will it be President Trump, at war with the Vatican? Or President Clinton, de-Christianising America? The Catholic vote is dividing in unexpected ways

The Breadline 2016 by Muriel Brandt shows nuns feeding Dublin's poor

When the rosary rang out in Dublin’s war zone

In the blaze of battle during the Easter Rising priests set up confessionals, took in the wounded and administered last rites

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