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The Holy Father encouraged Christians to be generous witnesses of the Risen Christ, knowing that He is always with us to sustain us. He reminds us that Jesus left us the command to “Go and teach all nations…teaching them to observe all that [He] commanded” (Matt 26: 19 – 20). 
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The pope said that this interfaith day of prayer, fasting, and charity is not an expression of "religious relativism," but "a day of fraternity" and prayer.
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(RNS) — As the coronavirus continues to upend daily life in the United States, churches and Christian leaders are finding ways to relieve anxious kids and overwhelmed parents online.
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On Saturday, The Daily Beast explored the problems plaguing Morningside USA, an “apocalypse-proof” gated community for evangelical end-times preppers founded by infamous televangelist Jim Bakker. “A gated, stucco fortress in the southwest corner of Missouri’s Ozark mountains, Morningside is an evangelical Christian community built to rent condos right through the end of the world,” reported […]
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The Catholic Church in Scotland is to approach the Scottish Government with plans for the phased reopening of parishes, according to a senior bishop.
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A Facebook live stream of Life Tabernacle Church Sunday showed Pastor Tony Spell with more than 100 church attendees during his service, despite the fact that he was supposed to be under house arrest after being arrested for aggravated assault.
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Tensions around the shutdown are being felt all over the world, from Germany, where Catholic bishops are protesting a decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel to keep a ban on religious services in place while reopening thousands of shops, to the US, where the Kansas governor is in a court battle over limits on church gatherings and where Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has decided to lift the suspension of public Masses on his own.
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During Mass at Casa Santa Marta, Francis prays that rulers and scientists find the right path to the crisis caused by Covid-19, solutions that are in favor of the people. In his homily, he says that the choice will be between the life of peoples and the god of money. If you choose money, you choose the path of hunger, of slavery, of wars, of arms factories, of children without education. The Lord, is the Pope's prayer, help us to choose the good of the people
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"Recall what Jesus said: they are two lords, the Lord God and the lord money. You cannot serve both." - Pope Francis
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Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.
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Africa, Asia, Oceania and parts of Amazonia that “are being tragically impacted by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic” will be supported by the new fund.
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Positive coronavirus cases have started to grow in Italy’s very religious south, where high levels of unemployment and organized crime complicate the application of stringent rules to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
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When former schoolteacher Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam, founded Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC in 1979, no one could have imagined all that the institution would become: a religious movement with global impact; a community that provides housing and job opportunities to its congregation; and a cult dogged with allegations of physical, psychological and spiritual abuse.
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Pope Francis Saturday cautioned against what he said is an “elite” and “clerical” mentality that leaves the poor behind, saying this attitude is also on display during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
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The Pope has established this Emergency Solidarity Fund to come to the aid of those people and communities who are being tragically impacted by the spread of COVID-19 in the Pope’s missions, as it supports religious Sisters and Brothers, priests, and lay pastoral workers who reach out through hospitals and small clinics, and parish and social ministries, providing vital health care, as well as basic needs, including food and shelter.
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Pope Francis praised the work of nurses around the world on Tuesday, saying the coronavirus crisis had shown how vital their service is, as he appealed to governments to invest more in healthcare.
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(RNS) — ‘May the search for COVID-19 solutions also be a moment of solidarity, of collaboration, and of growing together,’ said Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the archdiocese of Vancouver, Canada.
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The appeal calls on believers in God worldwide to hold “a day for fasting, prayers, and supplications” on May 14.
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Countless non-fundamentalist churches in the United States, from Catholic to Lutheran and Episcopalian, have embraced social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic and temporarily moved their activities online. But many Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been irresponsibly downplaying the dangers of COVID-19 and doing so with deadly results: journalist Alex Woodward, in the U.K.-based Independent, reports that the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 30 pastors in the Bible Belt.
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Human beings have despoiled the earth and “its response will be very ugly,” Pope Francis said in a message for Earth Day 2020.
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A parishioner at the Life Tabernacle Church in Central, Louisiana has reportedly died from the coronavirus weeks after the church’s pastor defied his state’s ban on large gatherings to hold packed church services. Local news station KALB reports that a coroner’s report of a 78-year-old parishioner of the church revealed that he had died after […]
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In an Easter letter to leaders of prominent social movements, Pope Francis suggested that it might be time for countries to consider a universal basic wage.
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"This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out." - Pope Francis: Easter 2020.
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Lawyers say the overturning of Pell’s criminal conviction for historical child sexual abuse is unlikely to stop civil lawsuits...
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(RNS) — ‘I just think that puts a lot of vulnerable people at risk,’ said Greg Jones, dean of the Duke Divinity School.
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(RNS) — Minority groups are calling for law enforcement and Zoom to crack down on perpetrators of racial abuse on the platform.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
It appears that it is time for God-fearing people to develop the lines of communication or the apps that will protect their privacy, cultivate their ability to engage in peaceful fellowship, and exclude the evildoers who love neither God nor man.
Last update: 4/4/2020; 2:15 pm.
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Bakker said his product has the ability to kill every pathogen it has ever been tested on, including SARS and HIV – this is completely unfounded.
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This is what I mean when I say: "There are things you shouldn't do, and lies you shouldn't tell."
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