1. Algeria Honors Catholic Victims of Its ‘Black Decade’. By Associated Press, The New York Times, December 10, 2018, Pg. A9 A cardinal dispatched by the Vatican to Algeria held an unusual beatification ceremony on Saturday for 19 monks, nuns and other Catholics who were…

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1. Myanmar Persecutes Christians, Too. By Hollie McKay, The Wall Street Journal December 7, 2018, Pg. A15, Opinion, Houses of Worship The international community has rightly called out the horrific ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine state. But the Buddhist-dominated Burmese military has…

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1. Aid for Immigrants on Desert Trek Stirs Religion-Freedom Fight, ‘Trespasser’ group in court trying to toss federal charges over their relief effort. By Jacob Gershman, Wall Street Journal Online, December 6, 2018, 5:30 AM A federal magistrate judge in Arizona is deciding whether a…

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1. Guam Catholic Church to File Bankruptcy Amid Abuse Lawsuits.  By The Associated Press, November 7, 2018, 2:35 AM Guam’s Catholic church will file for bankruptcy — a move that will allow the archdiocese to avoid trial in dozens of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse…

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1. Gunmen in attack on Christians are slain, Egyptian officials say. By Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press, The Washington Post, November 5, 2018, Pg. A10 Egypt said security forces killed 19 militants in a shootout, including the gunmen suspected of killing seven Christians in an attack…

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1. Both Pope and Brazil’s bishops to be tested in Bolsonaro era. By John L. Allen Jr., Editor, Crux, November 2, 2018 Brazil is also a political and economic pacesetter, especially across Latin America, where developments in the country’s most populous nation and largest economy,…

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1. Religious intolerance at the heart of debate over same-sex foster parents. By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 2018, Opinion Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is legal advisor for the Catholic Association Foundation. Wayne Thomas was the answer to 3-year-old Brittany’s prayer more than 25 years…

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1. Birth Control Exemptions Are Revised. By Robert Pear, The New York Times, October 31, 2018, Pg. A20 Having lost in two federal courts and fearing more setbacks, the Trump administration is revising rules that allow employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraceptives based…

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1. Understanding why the Synod of Bishops blinked on ‘zero tolerance’. By John L. Allen Jr., Editor, Crux, October 30, 2018 If you’re an American Catholic, or an Australian, Irish, German, Chilean, or from pretty much anyplace else scarred by clerical sexual abuse scandals, news…

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1. The Oldest Hatred. By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2018, Opinion The massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh is an awful reminder that there are human hatreds far more virulent and ancient than those that animate our…

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