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Cross Wires: Wednesday breaking news
The latest Catholic headlines from around the globe
WORLD YOUTH DAY
Catholics will be able to seek forgiveness for their sins by following World Youth Day on social media (above), the Vatican has decreed.
Blessed John Paul II relics will be in Rio for World Youth Day.
300.000 beds, 5000 toilets and 60,000 volunteers are all ready in Rio for an estimated 2 million or more pilgrims at next week’s World Youth Day.
UK AND SCOTLAND
A new survey is asking Britons to nominate their favourite church.
Celtic fans heading to Belfast for their Champions league qualifier with Cliftonville tonight have been warned to beware of sectarian tensions.
2000 present to see Bishop Alan Holmes installed as Bishop of Norwich yesterday.
VATICAN
Pope Francis to visit Turkey next year, according to the Turkish press.
The Holy Father has responded to the letter of from a 3-year-old girl.
Vatican Observatory gets visit from the successor of Peter.
INTERNATIONAL
The cardinal of Mumbai has condemned the recent rape of a nun in India’s Orissa province, saying it shows the low status of women there.
The Patriarch of the Maronite Lebanese Church has warned the Syrian Civil War could spill over into, and destroy his country.
The Conference of European Churches has adopted a new constitution.
—Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog. Follow breaking news from the SCO through the day on Twitter at SCO_NEWS
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