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Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for recently deceased cardinals and bishops, Nov. 4, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News/Vatican Pool.
Vatican City, Nov 4, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday for the . ....
Church leaders in Brazil call for help as new strain spreads
pa Two women receive Covid 19 vaccination in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, on Monday Two women receive Covid 19 vaccination in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, on Monday CHURCH leaders in Brazil have called for urgent support for hospitals as a new strain of the coronavirus spreads rapidly. The country now has the second highest number of Covid-19 deaths after the United States: more than 210,000. Sister Irene, from the Brazilian organisation REPAM, who works alongside communities throughout the Brazilian Amazon, said: “The situation is dramatic. Many people are dying outside the largest public hospital of Manaus [the capital city of the state of Amazonas] while waiting. The same is happening inside the hospital, due to lack of staff, oxygen, and ICU beds.” ....
Coadjutor Archbishop Abel Gabuza of Durban (Photo courtesy of Vatican News) Coadjutor Archbishop Abel Gabuza of Durban died Sunday morning after a battle with COVID-19. He would have been 66 years old on March 23. It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Coadjutor Archbishop, Abel Gabuza, Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM, the Archbishop of Durban, said while announcing his coadjutor s death. The archbishop had not been with us in Durban long just short of two years but in that time we came to recognize him as a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor, said Cardinal Napier. ....