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Mobile phones are a key part of many people's lives, but they're better left in your pocket if you find yourself at mass, right? One forward thinking priest tending to his flock on the Italian island of Sicily seems to think otherwise. Don Alessandro Palermo, a 30 year-old parish priest of the San Matteo church in Marsala, Sicily invited his faithful congregation to bring their smartphones to church so that he could bless the mobile devices.
Images outside the courtroom ahead of the opening of Paolo Macchiarini's trial in Stockholm. The Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for the world's first synthetic trachea transplants has been charged in Sweden with aggravated assault. IMAGES
Puebla (Mexico), Apr 25 (EFE) (Camera: Gabriela García) - Ezequiel Padilla sweeps TikTok as Father Cheke. With almost 700,000 followers, this parish priest spreads the love of God with funny music videos and comic scenes that have crossed borders.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF EZEQUIEL PADILLA, KNOWN IN TIKTOK AS FATHER CHEKE.TRANSLATION:"It has given me a lot of closeness to people. I have always sought since I was a seminarian to be close to people, to break those protocols" "Today I have realized that social networks have a lot of impacts.""And then I said, I'm going to download that application to see what it is about. And that's how I started making videos on TikTok. I didn't even know how to make them, I didn't know anything about editing the videos and it was little by little."
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Thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts were under threat from the so-called Islamic State Iraq's largest Christian city, Qaraqosh, after the city came under attack from the terrorist militant group in August 2014. Luckily, one daring Dominican priest managed to save countless historical documents. Father Najeeb Michael fled with the manuscripts alongside thousands of other Christians. However, after taking the books to relative safety in the nearby city of Mosul, Father Michaeel was forced to flee once more, this time to Erbil, just days before the arrival of IS fighters to Mosul.
This is Brigadier General Silverio Ernesto Suarez Hernandez, a man who has recently been promoted to a one-star general in the ranks of Colombia's National Police. However, when he comes to church, he swaps in his military fatigues for a different sort of uniform. Father Silverio Ernesto changes into a priestly robe and leads mass for his faithful flock. When he was promoted to Brigadier General after serving for over 23 years in the National Police of Colombia, Father Silverio Ernesto became the first active priest to attain the military rank of General in Colombia's history. After having become the Police Chaplain and earning a rank of Colonel with the National Police, Father Silverio Ernesto was one of 11 selected from a group of 54 officers of the same rank to take part in the Strategic Course of Public as part of a process of promotion to the rank of Brigadier General. He answered the call to priestly life after he witnessed a man douse a police officer in gasoline and burn him alive while on duty. Now the military Catholic priest leads a congregation in Bogota for Mass and is known to use puppets as well as sweets to keep the attention of young children during his service.
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