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Some 10,000 believers holding candles squeezed into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to mark the "Holy Fire" ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of Orthodox Easterhttps://t.co/FQZKBoHgXY

📷 @TomCOEX & Gali Tibbon pic.twitter.com/LHC5GgyOQB — AFP news agency (@AFP) April 27, 2019

2. On the innocents and the Bread of Life on First Communion day in Sri Lanka

(Hat tip: Fr. Roger Landry)

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A message from Rabbi Yisrael Goldstein, rabbi at Chabad of Poway. Watch the full video: https://t.co/kFPjoech8r pic.twitter.com/oGZ0nDA9Or — Chabad.org (@Chabad) April 28, 2019

4. Remembering Lori Kaye, 60, Who ‘Thought of Others Before Herself’


5. John Allen: Choice on Myanmar: Defend religious freedom now, or pay price later



6. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput gave a lecture on God and Man in an Age of Unbelief Saturday night, which you can read here.

Previous Magnificat Egan lectures are here (Remi Brague and Mary Ann Glendon and many more worth reading)

7. Andrew Klavan on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

8. Out of the Ashes, a Beautiful Hope

9. Sexual Identity Politics and Religious Freedom in a Secular Age

10. A beautiful icon and a help to a brother

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Watch the full report from @annenbcnews: Animal-assisted therapy program helps kids with special needs find new hope. https://t.co/Lpd6bMaSjM — NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) April 28, 2019

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