ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SLATERSVILLE RI

The pontiff’s Aug. 19 general audience focused on the role of sacred music in the liturgy.

The court decision allowing an Iraqi woman’s official religious identity to be restored has put a spotlight on Iraqi laws concerning religious freedom.

“If we have, in good faith, offered temporary protected status, we should not return people until we deemed it safe to go back,” Bishop Brendan Cahill said.

Funding will help improve hospitals, clinics, and health networks in rural parts of Cameroon, Liberia, and Nigeria, working as part of a group of faith-based organizations, a CRS spokesperson said.

A special Mass was held commemorating Sts. Luis Bátis Sáinz, Manuel Morales, Salvador Lara Puente, and David Roldán Lara, who were martyred during the persecution of the Church in the Cristero period.

The country’s bishops warned that the proposed regulations could make freedom of expression contingent upon the government’s criteria of “truth.”

The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales urged world leaders to enforce religious freedom standards in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The bishops argue that the term “jury” in the U.S. has historically referenced a body of 12 jurors.

The class action suit was brought against the Canadian archdiocese in 2020.

The 12 pilgrims were returning from the Marian shrine at Medjugorje when their coach left the M3 motorway in eastern Hungary in the early hours of Sunday.