Southern California bishop suspends Mass obligation due to immigration fears

Southern California bishop suspends Mass obligation due to immigration fears

LOS ANGELES — San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas, who leads more than 1.5 million Catholics in Southern California, has formally excused parishioners from their weekly obligation to attend Mass following immigration detentions on two parish properties in the diocese. The dispensation is a move usually reserved for extenuating circumstances, like the height of the Covid-19…

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Verdict due in murder trial

Verdict due in murder trial

A sequestered jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch. Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests — her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson — died in the hospital after…

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Why AML teams need audit-ready due diligence

Why AML teams need audit-ready due diligence

Why AML teams need audit-ready due diligence. For anti-money laundering (AML) teams, the stakes have never been higher. Compliance pressures are mounting, onboarding timelines are shrinking and procurement demands faster, more accurate decisions. In this climate, due diligence is a business-critical function. However, when data is scattered across systems and reports take hours (or even…

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