Venezuelan National Guard attacks church during Mass

·      Catholic Charities defends serving teen trafficking victims without abortion

Catholic Charities of the East Bay (CCEB) in California is remaining firm in its conviction against referring teenage victims of sex trafficking for contraception and abortions at a new facility, while emphasizing that medical care is not the new facility’s primary mission.

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·      Catholic Relief Services aids cyclone-stricken nothern Mozambique

·      Analysis: Serious and unserious allegations of papal heresy

·      Kansas legislators fail to override veto of abortion pill reversal law

·      Venezuelan National Guard attacks church during Mass

·      Equality Act advances amid warnings over religious freedom

·      Public Masses suspended for second week in Sri Lanka

·      Pope Francis: 'The common good has become global'

·      Zimbabwean bishops reportedly approve beatification cause of lay missionary

·      Right to life a 'core value' of newly-launched Irish political party

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