A Catholic News Agency (EWTN News) report by Daniel Payne, published 21 June 2024, on the Vatican decree recognizing the martyrdom of two further Albanian priests, Dede Paliq and Zef Gazulli, killed under Albania's communist regime. The report also recounts the 5 November 2016 beatification by Pope Francis of 38 Albanian clerics and lay Catholics, two bishops, twenty one diocesan priests, seven Friars Minor, three Jesuits, one seminarian and four lay people, martyred by the same regime between 1945 and 1974.
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Reliability TierReliability tier 2: a named specialist religious news correspondent writing for a dedicated Catholic wire service (EWTN News) with editorial review, reporting a specific Vatican decree naming individual martyrs. One step removed from the decree itself, but an institutional religious news desk with a byline and a track record, not an unsigned press release. NotesCatholic News Agency is a professional wire service and EWTN News its parent network: mainstream religious press with ordinary editorial standards, though not independent of the Catholic Church whose own martyrs it is reporting on. Reliable for the beatification record itself, a formal, dated Vatican decree and public ceremony, while the martyrdom framing (Pope Francis's own words, that the 38 died in odium fidei, in hatred of the faith) is the Church's own doctrinal characterization, presented here as such rather than as this atlas's assessment. 1 Citation
PublisherCatholic News Agency / EWTN News 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/vatican-announces-martyrdom-of-priests-killed-during-albania-sainthood 1 Sources
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