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CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “Sri Lanka Easter Church and Hotel Bombings Kill at Least 200” – CNA

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Catholic News Agency reports:

“At least 200 people were killed in explosions Easter morning, detonated in churches [and] other sites across Sri Lanka. Hundreds more are reportedly injured. … explosions were detonated during Easter Mass at churches in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, and in Negombo, a city 20 miles to its north. At the same time, a bomb exploded at a service at the evangelical Zion Church in Batticaolo, on Sri Lanka’s east coast. St. Anthony’s Shrine was the Catholic church targeted in Colombo, and St. Sebastian’s is the Catholic parish in Negombo. …”

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CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “At least seven Christians killed in attack on bus in Egypt” – CNA

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“At least seven Coptic Christians were killed and 12 more injured in Egypt when a bus traveling to a desert monastery south of Cairo was ambushed by Islamic militants who opened fire, Egyptian authorities said on Friday. The bus was traveling to the St. Samuel the Confessor monastery November 2, when a number of attackers approached the vehicle from nearby dirt roads and opened fire. …”

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CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Congressional Report Documents ‘Dire Human Rights Situation’ in China” – CNA

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The Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports on a new congressional report raising the alarm over a dire, and worsening, human rights situation in mainland China under the domination of the Communist Party of China (CCP):

“A new congressional report slams China’s Communist Party [CCP] for increasing its repressive control over many aspects of Chinese society, and … numerous extreme and unprecedented human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity. The report … ‘highlights the dire human rights situation inside China and the continued downward trajectory by virtually China Mapevery measure, since Xi Jinping’ came to power, first as the Communist Party’s general secretary and now as its president. … the report was … by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China … created in 2000 to monitor human rights and rule of law developments in China.  … “

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CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “In Ireland, pro-lifers rally by the thousands against legalizing abortion” – CNA

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“Some 100,000 Irish pro-life advocates took to the streets across the country on Saturday to oppose legalizing abortion in the Republic of Ireland. …”

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CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “China’s president seeks more control over religion” – CNA/EWTN

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“President Xi Jinping of #China announced this week that he wants to tighten Beijing’s strict government controls on religion in the communist country. In a speech this week during the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi said that religions not sufficiently conformed to Communist ideals pose a threat to the country’s government, and therefore must become more ‘Chinese-oriented.’ …”

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NEWSLINK: “Palm Sunday attacks: 44 dead, more than 100 injured in church bombings carried out by ISIL in Egypt” – Fox News

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“… at least 44 people were killed and more than 100 more were injured in two Palm Sunday suicide attacks at Coptic Christian churches, each carried out by the ISIS terror group. Sunday’s first blast happened at St. George Church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 27 people were killed and 78 others wounded, officials said.
Television footage showed the inside of the church, where a large number of people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers. A second explosion – which Egypt’s Interior Ministry says was caused by a suicide bomber who tried to storm St. Mark’s Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria — left at least 17 dead, and 48 injured. The attack came just after Pope Tawadros II — leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria — finished services, but aides told local media that he was unharmed. …”

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#PopeFrancis at Mass: ‘May #God give us the grace to proclaim an end to wars in world” – Vatican Radio

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“War begins in a person’s heart, for this reason we are all responsible for caring for peace. This was #PopeFrancis’ message during his morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.”

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#CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “#PopeFrancis: the lack of brotherhood leads to war and bloodshed”

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“#PopeFrancis …. spoke of the importance of the bond of brotherhood and of how easy it is for petty jealousies and envy to damage that bond and set off a process that can lead to the destruction of families and peoples.”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#Vatican appoints pastoral envoy to #Medjugorje” – CNA

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“… #Medjugorje, a town in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to experience phenomena which they have claimed to be apparitions of the Blessed Virgin #Mary. …”

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