The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:07:24 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Pontifical Missions steps in to provide for orphans of Sri Lankan bombings /home/international/item/29822-pontifical-missions-steps-in-to-provide-for-orphans-of-sri-lankan-bombings /home/international/item/29822-pontifical-missions-steps-in-to-provide-for-orphans-of-sri-lankan-bombings

The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka left the Pontifical Mission Societies in that country responsible for the safety, upbringing and education of 271 children who lost at least one parent to co-ordinated terrorist attacks on Christians and foreign tourists.

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OTTAWA – The Pontifical Mission Societies and Aid to the Church in Need are urging Canadians to support Nigerian Christians under attack by Boko Haram and other Islamist extremist groups.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:06:14 -0500 Child missionary group uses baseball to connect Cubans, Americans /item/22538-child-missionary-group-uses-baseball-to-connect-cubans-americans /item/22538-child-missionary-group-uses-baseball-to-connect-cubans-americans

WASHINGTON – It was the end of a long day of baseball under the late May sun in Santa Clara, Cuba, and Marilyn Santos found an unpainted, dented, wooden baseball bat among the shiny blue and black ones she had brought from the United States.

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