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• Memo calls for 'generous' religious accommodations in US executive branch (Religion Clause)
  The US Office of Personnel Management issued a memorandum on July 16 calling on executive branch agencies to “adopt a generous approach to approving religious accommodations” requested by the over two million civilian federal employees. Accommodations include allowing remote work, otherwise frowned upon by the Trump administration.
• Benedictine abbey in Belgium temporarily dissolved following abuse allegations (CNA)
  Citing abuse allegations involving adults, the abbot president of the Benedictine Subiaco Cassinese Congregation temporarily dissolved community life at Keizersberg Abbey in Belgium and dispersed its monks to other monasteries. The ministry of a deacon at the abbey was also suspended because of “defects of form in his ordination to the diaconate,” CNA reported. In […]
• 9 people sentenced for murder of Myanmar priest (CWN)
  Nine people have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the February murder of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest of the Archdiocese of Mandalay in Myanmar (map).
• Vatican diplomat calls for immediate debt relief, says poverty is 'central' international priority (Holy See Mission)
  Addressing a UN forum, a Vatican diplomat said that “my Delegation reaffirms that poverty must remain the central and urgent priority of the international community. Poverty eradication is not merely an economic exercise; it is a moral imperative.” Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said […]