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The Holy See has extended its lockdown measures through April 13, the Monday of the Octave of Easter, in accordance with Italy’s recently extended national lockdown, the Vatican announced Friday.
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A Catholic priest has raised concern over the scheduled entry of a Chinese-manned vessel on Homonhon Island in Eastern Samar, which has been under lockdown since last week.
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The Vatican has asked priests around the world to recite a new prayer during this year’s Good Friday liturgy, and urged them to offer Masses for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Access to clean water is an essential human right that must be defended and protected, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development said in a new document.
Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso has tested positive for the coronavirus, his archdiocese announced Tuesday.
The Archdiocese of Cebu has opened its International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) center, a facility with a floor area of about 25, 754 square meters, for people showing symptoms of coronavirus.
dioceses with short-term financing to help them and their parishes “weather the financial impact of the pandemic.” “It is critical for us to support the Catholic Church in the United States at this time, so that the church can continue to provide irreplaceable spiritual and charitable support, and can keep the staff supporting its mission and outreach employed,” Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, said in a statement. According to a Knights news release, the lines of credit for dioceses “will have a very competitive interest rate equivalent to that of the one-year Treasury bill, plus 225 basis points (2.25%).” “The line of credit has a two-year term,” the release said. “At the end of that term, dioceses will have the option to convert the line of credit to a Knights of Columbus church loan, fully amortizing at the prevailing rate for a term selected by the borrower of five, 10 or 20 years — the same low-interest terms offered by the Knights’ existing and long-standing ChurchLoan program.” The Knights of Columbus said it has been “a key lender to parishes and dioceses for more than a century, and the ChurchLoan program remains a key source of financing for Catholic parishes and institutions.” The fraternal organization’s other responses to needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic include urging its members through their local and state councils to help supply food and other essentials to people in their parishes and the wider community and to participate in blood drives.
With public gatherings, including Masses, banned in Italy to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Vatican published an updated version of Pope Francis’ schedule for Holy Week and Easter…
