The Catholic Church in the U.S. is rallying in defense of religious freedom with more than 93 bishops and a new lay-run national campaign calling up on the faithful to oppose a new federal mandate that will force religious employers to violate their consciences by mandating insurance coverage for medical practices that violate the tenets of the faith.
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Christians fed up with the Church in Europe aren't just leaving their congregations, they're taking steps to become officially "de-baptized," and they're doing so in numbers that are beginning to worry Church leaders.
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A rare tapestry containing 365 relics, including some from the Passion of Jesus Christ, was found tucked away in the corner of a convent in Buffalo, New York.
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After a bloody Christmas Day attack on a Catholic church in Madalla that left 35 people dead, Archbishop John Onaiyekan of the Nigerian capital of Abuja is urging the faithful to ignore an ultimatum issued by the militant Muslim group Boko Haram giving Christians three days to vacate the northern part of the country.
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Pope Benedict XVI's first official act of the New Year was to announce the official establishment of an ordinariate in the U.S. for Anglican groups and clergy who wish to become Catholic, making it one of only two such structures in the world.
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After an "exhaustive biological analysis" of a consecrated host that turned blood red this summer in a St. Paul church, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced that the cause of the phenomenon was a fungus, not a miracle.
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Church officials are planning to review the case of an 18 year-old Catholic Pakistani girl named Mariah Manisha who was shot to death for refusing to submit to rape, a forced marriage and conversion to Islam.
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The priests and parishioners at St. Raymond's parish in Downey, California staged an "Occupy Christmas" event at a busy local mall where they fell on their knees in the middle of the mall and began to reverence the Eucharist.
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A sealed box containing evidence of a miraculous healing of a seemingly stillborn baby in Illinois is on its way to Rome where it will be considered as a possible miracle attributable to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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The number of couples who are choosing to marry in this country has dropped to record lows as more people opt for cohabitation or to delay marriage.
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