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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday in favor of a high school football coach in a First Amendment case concerning his right to pray on the field. Kennedy, a Christian, lost his job as a public school football coach in Bremerton, Washington, for refusing to stop praying at the 50-yard line after games.The court ruled that the school district breached Kennedy’s free exercise and free speech rights.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251647/supreme-court-opinion-football-coach-prayer
Two priests were killed over the weekend in Nigeria, one in Kaduna state and one in Edo state. Father Vitus Borogo, a priest serving in the Archdiocese of Kaduna, was killed June 25 after a raid on a the farm by Terrorists, the chancellor of the Kaduna archdiocese said in a statement shared with ACI Africa. The priest, who was 50, was the Catholic chaplain at Kaduna State Polytechnic. In Edo state, Father Christopher Odia was kidnapped from his rectory at St. Michael Catholic Church, Ikabigbo, Uzairue, around 6:30 am June 26. He was killed by his abductors, the Diocese of Auchi has announced.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251645/two-priests-killed-in-nigeria-in-separate-incidents
In a video message posted June 23, Bishop Ramón Castro Castro of Cuernavaca, secretary general of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, said that following the murder of two Jesuit priests last week, the country is being “spattered in the blood of so many dead and disappeared." Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar were murdered June 20 inside the Catholic church of Cerocahui when they tried to protect an injured man who fled inside the church as he was being pursued by an armed assailant who then shot him and the two priests, killing all three. From January 1 to June 21 of this year, according to official figures, 12,481 homicides have taken place in Mexico. On behalf of the entire Church in Mexico, Bishop Castro asked the criminals: “We implore you, we beg you, we demand, in the name of God, enough of so much evil and hatred! We all want peace.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251646/mexican-bishops-the-country-is-spattered-in-the-blood-of-the-dead-and-disappeared
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Cyril of Alexandria, an Egyptian bishop and theologian best known for his role in the Council of Ephesus, where the Church confirmed that Christ is both God and man in one person. The Eastern churches celebrate St. Cyril of Alexandria on June 9.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-cyril-of-alexandria-516
The Church also celebrates Saint Ladislaus. Ladislaus was the King of Hungary, born in 1040 and died in 1095 as one of Hungary's national Christian heroes.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-ladislaus-284