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An unidentified Indian woman, allegedly an employee at a home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, is seen in police custody after she was arrested in Jharkhand, India, July 5. Anima Indwar, who worked for the nuns in Jharkhand, was handed over to police in early July after she admitted that procedures had not been followed in transferring children to Jharkhand state's Child Welfare Committee.

India's Sr. Prema condemns trafficking, says missionary nuns not involved

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NEW DELHI – Facing child trafficking allegations at one of its homes for unmarried mothers in India, the Missionaries of Charity said the order condemns the actions of individuals involved and stressed that these are unrelated to the order.
Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, Central African Republic, greets youths after celebrating Mass for internally displaced people in Bangui in this 2015 file photo. Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have distanced themselves from a group that is promising to defend the church and avenge the deaths of priests.

Central African bishops distance themselves from group promising vengeance for murdered priests

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NAIROBI, Kenya – Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have distanced themselves from a group that is promising to defend the church and avenge the deaths of priests.
Karen Ervin, Theresa Jordan and Laurie Malashanko pause in prayer before the altar at Detroit's Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in 2017. They were consecrated into the Catholic Church's order of virgins.

Vatican guide to consecrated virginity must be read with discernment, canonist says

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WASHINGTON – A new Vatican instruction on the role of consecrated virginity has drawn criticism from an American group, which says that a key paragraph of the document could lead to confusion. At issue is whether entering the Church’s “order of virgins” requires that women actually be virgins.
Young people mourn over the casket of Gerald Jose Vasquez, a student at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, during his July 15 wake in Managua. Vasquez was one of two students shot and killed by paramilitary forces when they were seeking refuge in Divine Mercy Catholic Church after being forced from the university they had occupied in protest for more than two months.

Nicaraguan bishops to pray for exorcism as violence continues

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – As attacks on Catholic clergy continue and anti-government protesters are besieged by Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries, the bishops said they would pray an exorcism prayer.
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, is pictured in a 2017 photo. In a front-page story July 16, The New York Times interviewed two men who received settlements after they accused the prelate of abusing them as seminarians when he was a bishop in New Jersey.

NY Times talks to men who got settlements after alleged abuse by Cardinal McCarrick

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NEW YORK – A front-page New York Times article published July 16 detailed the alleged abuse of two seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, by then-Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick in the 1980s that resulted in settlements to each man.
A displaced Syrian family who fled violence in Aleppo stands in a field in the rural area of Manbij in 2016. Amid the destruction in war-torn Syria, a community of Discalced Carmelites in Aleppo perseveres in its mission of continuous prayer and help to families in need.

Carmelite nuns in Aleppo live in 'heroic situation', provincial says

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BEIRUT – Amid the destruction in war-torn Syria, a community of Discalced Carmelites in Aleppo perseveres in its mission of continuous prayer and help to families in need.
A volunteer, top right, looks on as a family with an autistic child left, attends Mass July 8 at Holy Trinity Church in Arouca, Trinidad.

Trinidad church aims for inclusion of sensory-challenged, disabled parishioners

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AROUCA, Trinidad – More than four years ago, Saira Joseph-La Foucade stopped attending Mass.
The general postulator of the Society of Jesus said he has begun compiling all of the writings of Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe and seeking eyewitnesses who can attest to the holiness of order's late superior general. Father Arrupe is pictured in an undated photo.

Preparations begin for Father Arrupe's sainthood cause, postulator of Jesuits says

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VATICAN – The general postulator of the Society of Jesus said he has begun compiling all of the writings of Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe and seeking eyewitnesses who can attest to the holiness of order's late superior general.
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is seen July 11 in the Tupac Amaru hall of the Government Palace in Lima. Vizcarra announced the creation of a commission to propose a reform of the judicial system and said he will present the proposal to Congress during his state of the nation message July 28, Peru's independence day.

Peru's bishops express support to overhaul judicial system

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LIMA, Peru – Peru's bishops expressed support for an overhaul of the country's judicial system after phone-tap recordings revealing influence peddling and corruption became public.
A member of the Missionaries of Charity tends to a patient in 2016 in Kolkata, India. Indian officials are seeking to freeze bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity following the July 5 arrest of a nun on child trafficking charges.

Indian officials seek to freeze bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity after child trafficking charges

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BHOPAL, India – Indian officials are seeking to freeze bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity following the arrest of a nun on child trafficking charges in Jharkhand state.
People protest June 17 in front of a Homeland Security facility in Elizabeth, N.J., to oppose a U.S. immigration policy of separating children from their families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, praised the U.N. for emphasizing "the right to family unity and to family life" in its compact on safe, orderly migration.

Protecting family unity, family life key to migration agreement, says U.N. nuncio

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UNITED NATIONS – The Vatican's nuncio to the United nations welcomed the "inclusion and added emphasis on the right to family unity and to family life" in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
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