Aleteia

9/2020: The Americas Updates and Petitions

9/3/20: FSU Catholic Student Must Sue to Defend His First Amendment Rights – https://www.ncregister.com/news/catholic-florida-man-sues-university-over-religious-freedom

9/10/20: Catholic fired from “Catholic Hospital” for living out Catholic Teaching?? – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/a-catholic-healthcare-worker-objected-to-contraception-her-catholic-clinic-fired-her-30957

9/11/20: Vandal Strikes Louisiana Catholic Church – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/man-who-went-on-vandalism-spree-at-louisiana-catholic-church-arrested-93771

9/17/20: El Paso Jesus Statue Decapitated In Front of Tabernacle – https://kvia.com/news/crime/2020/09/15/jesus-statue-decapitated-in-brazen-vandalism-attack-at-el-pasos-st-patricks-cathedral/

9/18/20: Misguided Man Attacked El Paso Jesus Statue Over Skin Color – https://kvia.com/news/crime/2020/09/15/jesus-statue-decapitated-in-brazen-vandalism-attack-at-el-pasos-st-patricks-cathedral/

9/20/20: SF Archbishop Fighting Government Mockery of God With Restrictions – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-salvatore-cordileone-says-san-francisco-mass-restrictions-are-mocking-god-72251

9/21/20: SF Archbishop Leads Protest Against Gov’t. Mass Restrictions – https://www.churchpop.com/2020/09/21/no-more-san-francisco-abp-leads-protest-against-mass-restrictions-with-eucharistic-processions/

9/21/20: KOC To The Rescue After Marian Desecration in Brooklyn – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/knights-of-columbus-donates-to-vandalized-brooklyn-parish-91749

9/22/20: Lou Holtz Speaks The Truth About The American Catholic Church – https://flcatholictribune.com/stories/555313296-holtz-catholic-church-is-under-attack-this-election

9/22/20: Kroger Fires Employees Faithful To Historical/Biblical Family Views – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/kroger-employees-allege-religious-discrimination-over-rainbow-apron-69754

9/23/20: American Catholics/Christians Concerned About Continuous Church Attacks – https://aleteia.org/2020/09/23/attacks-continue-on-churches-leaving-a-majority-of-catholics-concerned-according-to-poll/

9/23/30: FL Catholic Church Struck By Arsonist – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pastor-urges-prayer-forgiveness-after-florida-man-tries-to-burn-down-incarnation-catholic-church-71890

9/25/20: Bat Wielding Vandal Attacks TX Seminary – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vandal-takes-baseball-bat-to-catholic-seminary-in-texas-but-none-harmed-63146

9/26/20: Anti-Catholic Mob Defaces Beautiful CA Chaldean Catholic Cathedral – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chaldean-catholic-cathedral-vandalized-in-san-diego-with-white-power-blm-and-swastikas-29343

9/28/20: Justice Department Also Concerned Over SF Religious Overreach – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/justice-department-calls-on-san-francisco-mayor-to-revise-worship-restrictions-60956

Please pray for justice and God’s will be done!

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

9/20: Africa Updates and Petitions

9/2/20: Nuns Missing After Jihadist Attack in Mozambique – https://aleteia.org/2020/09/02/still-no-news-of-nuns-disappeared-since-mozambique-jihadist-attack/

9/8/20: Hundreds of Christians Slaughtered Door to Door in Ethiopia– https://aleteia.org/2020/09/08/more-than-500-ethiopians-christians-have-reportedly-been-murdered-in-door-to-door-attacks-since-june/

9/24/20: Out of Sight, Out of Mind for Persecuted in Nigeria – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/conference-highlights-forgotten-persecuted-christians-43167

Please pray for justice and God’s will be done!

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

8-9/20: Asia Updates

8/26/20: CCP Determined to Eventually Eliminate Catholicism – https://www.pop.org/catholicism-a-casualty-of-chinas-new-cultural-revolution/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=2d5a338d-3cdf-4789-a414-d9f95530086b

9/1/20: Catholic Clergy in China are Censored! – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hong-kong-cardinal-warns-priests-to-watch-your-language-24915

9/5/20: Many Pakistani Christian Girls are Kidnapped and Forced Into Conversions/Marriage! – https://aleteia.org/2020/09/05/human-rights-group-urges-investigation-into-forced-religious-conversions-in-pakistan/

9/9/20: Pakistani Christian Man To Be Killed For Blasphemy! – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/christian-in-pakistan-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-13658

9/15/20: Let’s Keep Religious Liberty The Focus in China – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/us-commission-vatican-china-deal-should-focus-on-religious-freedom-82881

Please pray for justice and God’s will be done!

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

8/14/20: Iraq Officially Needs More Christians

Iraq’s prime minister encourages Christians to return

Christians who fled Iraq in recent years are being encouraged to return by the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Al-Kazemi has met with Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch, and other bishops in Baghdad. Cardinal Raphael said there are many Christians who wish to return.

“Iraq is the country for everyone, and that Christians are the original children of the country, and there is no difference between the people of the same country, as everyone is a partner in building the future of Iraq.”

Mustafa Al-Kazemi

Security is the primary issue and the new Prime Minister, who took over May 7, pledges assistance. He said he and all Iraqis yearn for a new Iraq that believes in peace and rejects violence.

It was the invasion of ISIS in 2014 that almost eradicated Christianity in Iraq. Despite promises, Christians are fearful.

Please pray for peace, justice and for God’s will to be done!

8/11/20: Another Catholic Arrested in Hong Kong by Communists

Catholic activist in Hong Kong arrested under national security law

Agnes Chow, a Catholic and Hong Kong civil rights advocate, has been arrested and charged for violating the new national security law that the Chinese Communist Party imposed on the former British colony. Chow was caught up in the same dragnet that captured Jimmy Lai, and several others.

Chow, only 23, was targeted for her political opposition to the communists.

Please pray for Ms. Chow and all Catholics in China, and for God’s will to be done!