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King Charles III visits Aberdeen Town House to meet families who have settled in Aberdeen from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine, in Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 17, 2022. Buckingham Palace announced Feb. 5, 2024, that the king has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun a schedule of regular treatments. While he has postponed public duties, he "remains wholly positive about his treatment," Buckingham Palace said. King Charles was hospitalized a week earlier for a "corrective procedure" for an enlarged prostate, but the palace said his cancer diagnosis is unrelated to that procedure.

As King Charles is diagnosed with cancer, Cardinal Nichols offers 'steadfast prayers'

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Cardinal Vincent Nichols has offered "steadfast prayers" on behalf of Catholics after it was announced that Britain's King Charles III is undergoing treatment for cancer.

Newly elected Prime Minister Michelle O'Neill of Northern Ireland speaks during a meeting of the legislative assembly in Belfast Feb. 3, 2024. O'Neill is Northern Ireland's first Catholic prime minister in history.

Northern Ireland has Catholic leading its government for the first time in history

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Ireland's most-senior churchman hailed an agreement that sees a Catholic take the top political job in Northern Ireland for the first time in its history as an "opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning."

Catholic media tycoon and philanthropist Jimmy Lai is pictured in Hong Kong May 29, 2020.

Evidence in Jimmy Lai trial may have been obtained through torture, U.N. rapporteur says

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The United Nations is warning that evidence in the trial of prominent Hong Kong Catholic, philanthropist and media mogul Jimmy Lai may have been obtained by torturing a witness in China.

Pope Francis arrives in a golf cart to visit the destroyed Al-Tahera Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq, March 7, 2021. Christians have been fleeing Iraq due to persecution.

Christian exodus from Iraq ‘alarming’

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A multitude of problems — corruption, discrimination and unemployment at home, exacerbated by the fallout from the Gaza war — are driving an alarming number of Iraqi Christians from their homeland, seeking emigration as a last resort, say Church leaders and advocacy organizations.

A man kisses a rosary as he prays before Mass in 2018 at a church in Beijing.

Three bishops, approved by pope and government, ordained in China

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In less than a week, three Chinese bishops were ordained with the approval of both Pope Francis and the Chinese government.

French farmers drive their tractors in a go-slow operation in Compans near Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle Airport Jan. 27, 2024, in a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe.

France's Catholic bishops strongly back farmers in their massive protest

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France's bishops stand in solidarity with farmers protesting across the country. After days of protests in the local provinces, farmers were determined to block the main roads leading to Paris, with spectacular traffic jams of tractors and farm vehicles they formed Jan. 29 across the French capital.

The bell tower of the Italian Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey, is pictured after two masked gunmen attacked the church during Sunday morning Mass, Jan. 28, 2024, leaving at least one worshipper dead.

Islamic State group claims responsibility for attack on church in Turkey

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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person.

Haitian National Police patrol outside the College Marie-Anne in Port-au-Prince Jan. 22, 2024, days after six nuns were kidnapped by armed men while sisters were traveling on a bus. The nuns, who have since been freed, were abducted, along with other passengers on a bus, are members of the Sisters of St. Anne, the congregation that runs the college.

'We give thanks to God!' says Haiti archbishop as six nuns are freed from captivity

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The six nuns kidnapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 19 have been freed, and the archbishop of the capital was overjoyed and thankful at the news.

Haitian National Police patrol outside the College Marie-Anne in Port-au-Prince Jan. 22, 2024, days after six nuns were kidnapped by armed men while sisters were traveling on a bus. The nuns who were abducted, along with other passengers are members of the Sisters of St. Anne, the congregation that runs the College Marie-Anne.

Haiti bishops appeal for release of religious sisters kidnapped by suspected gang members

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The bishops of Haiti appealed for the release of six women religious who were kidnapped Jan. 19 in a country mired in crisis because of gang violence.

Representatives of international victims' initiatives demonstrate in Rome Sept. 28, 2023, holding protest posters, including one that reads, "Fernández must go!" and another that says, "Fernández: No friend to victims." Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández is prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Zen calls for resignation of doctrinal prefect after 'Fiducia Supplicans'

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After authorizing blessings for homosexual couples, the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, is facing backlash from multiple national churches and certain clerics across the globe.

A Palestinian is carried into Nasser Hospital Jan. 22, 2024, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Jerusalem church official: Gaza situation 'extremely catastrophic'

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The situation in the Gaza Strip is "extremely catastrophic," and people are dying not only from violence but from preventable illnesses, said the CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

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