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Orthodox Christian worshippers hold candles around what is believed to be the tomb of Christ during the ancient Eastern rite ceremony of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2023.

Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter in the Holy Land with another year of Holy Fire restrictions

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Thousands of local and international Christian pilgrims thronged to Jerusalem's Old City and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the ancient Eastern rite ceremony of the Holy Fire April 15, with some scuffles reported as Israeli police restricted the number of people able to reach the church.

Israeli medics and police officers check a damaged car at the scene of a shooting attack, in the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 7, 2023. A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack.

Holy Land spirals into violence amid celebrations of Passover, Easter and Ramadan

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A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack in the Jordan valley on April 7, during a week that, instead of seeing the holidays of Passover, Easter and Ramadan celebrated in parallel peacefully, spiraled the region into violence.

Members of the Amhara Special Force are pictured in a file photo near the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Two Catholic Relief Service staff members, Chuol Tongyik, a security manager, and Amare Kindeya, a driver, were shot and killed in a CRS vehicle April 9, 2023, in the Amhara region as they were returning to Addis Ababa from an assignment.

Two Catholic Relief Services' workers slain in Ethiopia amid Easter Sunday unrest

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Two Catholic Relief Services staff members were shot and killed Easter Sunday in Ethiopia's Amhara region, according to the U.S. Catholic Church's international aid agency. Details of the murders are still unknown, CRS said April 10, but the incident comes amid several days of unrest and protests in the region after Ethiopia's federal government moved to dissolve paramilitary forces.

Members of the Syrian army, talking to a Franciscan priest from the Franciscan convent in the Syrian port city of Lattakia outside collapsed homes after the earthquake.

Quake worsens wide array of Syrian problems

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Already decimated by years of war, poverty and international sanctions, the last thing people in northwestern Syria needed was the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude that wreaked havoc in their country and southeastern Turkey nearly two months ago.

A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping hangs next to a crucifix on the wall of the house of a Tibetan Catholic on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, in China's Yunnan province, in this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo.

Bishop installed in Shanghai, apparently without Vatican agreement

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In an apparent breach of the Vatican's agreement with China on the appointment of bishops, the bishop of Haimen was installed as the bishop of Shanghai April 4.

The faithful gather in front of the Bishops' Palace in Krakow, Poland, on Franciszkanska Street April 2, 2023. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla lived there as archbishop of Krakow and as Pope John Paul II, he used to have informal meetings there with the faithful at the so called "Papal Window." Huge crowds gathered in Poland to mark the 18th anniversary of the pope's death and to show their support of him in the wake of a recent TV report claiming that as Krakow's archbishop he covered up abuse. Critics of the report say it was based on unreliable sources.

Poland remembers, defends JPII 18 years after his death

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Eighteen years after the death of St. John Paul II April 2, 2005, his native Poland remembered him with vigils and marches.

A Latin-English edition of the Code of Canon Law is pictured on a bookshelf.

Pope Francis adjusts canon law appeal period for members of religious orders

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Saying he wanted to protect the rights of members of religious orders facing expulsion, Pope Francis made small changes to canon law, giving them more time to appeal their dismissals.

Pope Francis participates in the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage and Liturgy of the Word in Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta, July 26, 2022.

Bishops, Indigenous Catholics welcome Vatican condemnation of 'Doctrine of Discovery,' but say 'more work to be done'

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Indigenous Catholics, along with U.S. and Canadian bishops, are welcoming the Vatican's repudiation of a legal and political doctrine by which European colonial powers and North American governments historically seized lands from Indigenous peoples -- while stressing there is more work to be done in healing Catholic-Indigenous relations.

Pope Francis greets hospital workers at Gemelli hospital in this file photo taken in Rome July 11, 2021, when the pope had been in the hospital for 10 days to recover from a scheduled colon surgery.

Pope Francis hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says

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After having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection that will be treated in the hospital for several days, the Vatican press office said.

A family recovers belongings from their destroyed home in Rolling Fork, Miss., March 26, 2023, after a tornado swept through the town. At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Mississippi as the massive storm ripped through more than a half-dozen towns late March 24.

'Pray for God's hand' over Mississippi: destructive tornado kills, injures dozens

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Powerful tornadoes tore through rural Mississippi the night of Friday, March 24, killing or injuring dozens and causing widespread destruction.

Franciscan Father Stéphane Milovitch, director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae in Jerusalem,with some of its 450 earthenware pharmaceutical pots from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Holy Land Franciscans advance Jerusalem museum

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The priest-director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, or Custody of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem opened a drawer of vestments and casually dropped an unexpected historical tidbit about a clerical chasuble he was showing a group of foreign guests. The chasuble was part of a collection of vestments the archbishop of Paris wore for the marriage of Emperor Napoleon III of France with the Empress Eugenie, and which the empress later donated to the Church in the Holy Land.

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