Brazil welcomes persecuted clergy from Nicaragua

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Jair Bolsonaro, the embattled President of Brazil, is offering sanctuary to people of faith who have been persecuted in Nicaragua by the country’s socialist government. The president invited persecuted priests and nuns while delivering a …

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Catholics now outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland

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The Catholic population in Northern Ireland now outnumbers the Protestant population. The country’s Census 2021 results, which were published Thursday, show that the percentage of the population that reports being Protestant or being raised Protestant …

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AME clergy to repay kickbacks from church sales

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Several New York African Methodist Episcopal clergy and others participated in a secret scheme with a developer who promised to turn five struggling church properties into more lucrative assets in exchange for “finders fees.”  The …

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