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Catholic population surges across the Global South

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday (May 13), signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin American pope.
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Ohioans help African missionary’s dream take flight

| May 18, 2013

WAUSEON, Ohio -- A Congolese missionary pilot with ties to Toledo was on the verge of shutting down his ministry in Africa until United Methodists from Ohio helped him buy a newer, more efficient airplane.
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Christian leaders seek to overcome polarization

| May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON (RNS) “Faith leaders have a remarkable opportunity to shift the conversation, but it’s very challenging, particularly in a larger society that wants to understand everything as a battle,” said Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
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Harold Camping may be facing doomsday, but not the one he intended

| May 14, 2013

(RNS) Two years after radio evangelist Harold Camping erroneously predicted the end of the world, his California-based Family Radio has sold its prominent stations and let go of veteran staffers.
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Lessons and laments from the sale of sacred objects

| May 14, 2013

The hearts of the Hopi Nation sank on April 12, 2013. It wasn't because of an earthquake, flood, famine or disease, but because of a court ruling allowing 70 ceremonial masks to be sold at an auction house in Paris.
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Survivors of Magdalene laundries still waiting for an apology

| May 13, 2013

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (RNS) Teresa Bell was one of thousands of young girls who were sent to the Magdalene workhouses run by Roman Catholic nuns when she got pregnant at age 16. She worked long hours washing clothes with no pay and little rest; after giving birth, her daughter was put in an orphanage.
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Abuse watchdogs say bishops’ ‘failings’ hurt their credibility

| May 11, 2013

(RNS) Even as an annual review this week gave Catholic bishops high marks on sex abuse prevention policies, officials with the church’s oversight agencies expressed serious concerns about “recent high-profile failings” in several dioceses.
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Scott Carroll, ordained as priest early because of health, dies at age 46

| May 10, 2013

The Rev. Scott R. Carroll, a Toledo diocesan seminarian who was ordained as a priest early because of failing health, died today (Friday, May 10) of cancer. He was 46.
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Toledo bishop makes 22 pastoral appointments

| May 10, 2013

Bishop Leonard Blair of the Toledo Catholic Diocese has made 22 pastoral appointments throughout the 19-county diocese.
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British church attendance stabilizes after years of decline

| May 10, 2013

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The number of people attending Sunday services at Britain’s Anglican churches is continuing to drop, but church officials say there are signs that the decline is stabilizing.
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Threshold is on a mission to bring the church to the people

| May 10, 2013

The Rev. Tom Schaeffer, pastor of Threshold Church, is not striving to get people to come to his church. He’s more concerned with getting his church to the people. “I say to my folks: ‘Where we go, the church is.' It’s not about place. It’s not about a building. But it’s about the people of God.”
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