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Archbishop Broglio visited Ukraine, meeting with military chaplains

Archbishop Broglio visited Ukraine, meeting with military chaplains

KYIV, Ukraine (CNS) – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the US Archdiocese for the Military Services and president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with Ukrainian military chaplains Dec. 29 in Kyiv. The bishop’s meeting with priests at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Resurrection took place a day after he participated …

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Free Catholic Bishop detained by Eritrean authorities for 75 days in prison

Free Catholic Bishop detained by Eritrean authorities for 75 days in prison

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) – Eritrean authorities have released Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim after 75 days in prison. Bishop Tsalim, the 52-year-old bishop of Segheneity, an eparchy in southern Eritrea, spent Christmas in prison. A video emerged on December 28 showing the greeting of priests and religious women at a church in Asmara, the Eritrean …

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The Salvadoran cardinal remembered in the bad books of his episcopacy, Romero

The Salvadoran cardinal remembered in the bad books of his episcopacy, Romero

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) – In a candid account of his five years in the Salvadoran church, the country’s first cardinal addressed the allegations against St. Oscar Romero of El Salvador, but he was humiliated by other priests, including a Bishop. who said, in notes to a Vatican representative, that he had “no intention …

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