BRADFORD

Woman attacks statue of Our Lady

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IRELAND

Draconian legislation has been passed which gives government the right to arrest people for praying near maternity hospitals where abortions are performed or from encouraging someone against an abortion near there

The grounds of many churches are included in the zones

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When I was a child of ten I went down on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my life to an effort to free my country.

I have kept that promise. As a boy and as a man I have worked for Irish freedom, first among all earthly things. I have helped to organise, to arm, to train, and to discipline my fellow-countrymen to the sole end that, when the time came, they might fight for Irish freedom. The time, as it seemed to me, did come, and we went into the fight. I am glad we did.

We seem to have lost.

We have not lost.

To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

- Pádraig Pearse
May 2 1916

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PRAY FOR ARMENIA

Christians will get together at the Azerbaijan Embassy in London and pray for our brothers and sisters in Armenia on May 25 at 12pm

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3 May

Irish Catholic freedom fighter Padraig Pearse was executed on this day in 1916

'I just received Holy Communion. I am happy, except for the great grief of parting from you. This is the death I should have asked if God had given me the choice of all deaths—to die a soldier’s death for Ireland and for freedom.

We have done right. People will say hard things of us now, but later on will praise us. Do not grieve for all this, but think of it as a sacrifice which God asked of me and of you. Good-bye again, dear mother. May God bless you for your great love for me and for your great faith, and may He remember all you have so bravely suffered. I hope soon to see papa, and in a little while we shall be all together again. I have not words to tell you of my love for you and how my heart yearns to you all

 I will call to you in my heart at the last moment.

Your son,

Pat'

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SPAIN

An anti Catholic terrorist has been arrested after setting fire to a church in Cuenca today.

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IRELAND

Leftists have blocked people from visiting the precious Book of Kells, one of Ireland's most beautiful and holy artefacts

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MAY 4

Devout Catholic Joseph Mary Plunkett was executed on this date after he fought for freedom for Ireland

Plunkett wrote the beautiful poem 'I see His Blood Upon the Rose':

I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.

I see his face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but his voice-and carven by his power
Rocks are his written words.

All pathways by his feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.

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IRELAND

The March for Life takes place in Dublin on Monday at 2pm. Walking from St. Stephen's Green to Leinster House.

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On this day in 1981, Bobby Sands died after 66 days on Hunger Strike.

According to his diary, 8 days into his strike he received Holy Communion at Mass in the prison, his last meal.

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DUBLIN

Thousands of people have marched to government buildings as part of the March for Life to show their opposition to abortion

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USA

A terrorist stormed a church in Pennsylvania and tried to assassinate a pastor before his gun jammed

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'Despite the Vatican-China agreement on bishop appointments, in April the government installed a bishop without Vatican approval. Authorities continue to forcibly disappear and convict underground Catholic priests - including Bishop Augustine Cui Tai and Joseph Yang Xiaoming who refused to join the State Controlled Chinese Patriotic Association'

- United States International Commission on Religious Freedom 2024 Report

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FRANCE

Mainstream media outlet CNews will broadcast Pentecost Mass from the huge Latin Mass pilgrimage of mostly young people at Chartres this year

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BELFAST, IRELAND

St. Patrick's Church was turned into a cinema for a special screening of Young Frankenstein to commemorate its 50th anniversary, for some reason. It came complete with smoke effects.

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SYDNEY

Archbishop Anthony Fisher leads a candle lit procession in honour of Our Lady of Fatima at St. Mary's Cathedral.

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