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More than 1,000 girls in Pakistan are forcibly married and converted to Islam each year, Alliance Defending Freedom International’s Kelsey Zorzi said.

Thirteen years ago, former Spanish soccer star David Silva thanked the Blessed Mother after Spain won the 2010 World Cup.

“We regret that this briefing was uploaded to our website without going through the established internal review processes,” Amnesty International UK said.

Religious nationalism, state control, terrorism, authoritarianism, and limits on women are among drivers of rising persecution globally, the International Christian Concern (ICC) report said.

Cardinal Seán O’Malley discussed ways in which Catholics and Orthodox Christians can build closer bonds. Archbishop Flavio Pace discussed ongoing Vatican efforts to help bring about unity.

The diocese also will seek to remove Father Jeffrey Nowak from the clerical state.

The former head of the Vatican’s liturgy office told the European Parliament that ambiguous language risks turning international agreements into “instruments of perversion and of silent power.”

The beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton Sheen is set for 2 p.m. CT on Sept. 24 at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. Tickets cost $15 to $25.

The vote, ending an unusual parliamentary stalemate between the National Assembly and the Senate, came three years after President Emmanuel Macron first opened the question to national debate.

He began reading the Bible and visiting a church every Sunday, eventually getting baptized.