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Richard Rossi and his 4-year-old great-grandson Justice wade through water Aug. 15 after their home flooded in St. Amant, La.

Louisiana bishop comforts evacuees at shelters; flooding displaces 20,000

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BATON ROUGE, La. – As Louisiana's governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state Aug. 14, Catholic churches in the Baton Rouge Diocese called for volunteers to help those displaced by extreme flooding and asked flood victims what assistance they needed.

Pope Francis pictured during a jubilee audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 30. Pope Francis has been paying for trips and food for homeless people in Rome to go to the beach.

Pope Francis treats homeless to pizza and swim at the beach

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ROME – As millions of people around the world enjoy their annual summer vacation, Pope Francis is providing a beach escape for those who cannot afford it.

Catholic pilgrims are regularly overcome with emotion at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolas, as this man was while visiting it on July 25, 2016, in San Nicolas de Arroyos, Argentina.

Church confirms Argentine apparitions as ‘supernatural’

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SAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina – Once a month, thousands of devout Catholics descend on this small industrial city, where a woman with little education but great faith said she began seeing visions of the Virgin Mary on Sept. 25, 1983.

People gather to remember all victims of police violence during a rally outside City Hall in Baltimore July 27. Baltimore's archbishop William E. Lori called a recently released report by the U.S. Department of Justice on the systemic abuses by the city's police "sobering and distressing."

Archbishop calls report on systemic abuses by Baltimore police 'sobering and distressing'

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BALTIMORE – The same day a federal Department of Justice report cataloging systemic abuses by Baltimore's police was issued, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore called that report "sobering and distressing."

Nuns pray in Kolkata, India, Aug. 4. Although the Sept. 4 canonization of Blessed Teresa is in Rome, special festivities to honor her will continue in Kolkata until Christmas.

Calcutta gears up for celebrations of 'St. Teresa'

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CALCUTTA, India – A group of young independent photographers are busy clicking away, taking photos of the "City of Joy."

According to a new survey, most American churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpits of their churches, during the current U.S. presidential election.

Most American churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpit: report

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Most American churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpits of their churches during this presidential election season, according to a new survey.

Portrait of Martin Luther by 16th-century German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. Later this year, Christians begin marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, traditionally dated from the October 1517 publication of Luther's 95 Theses, questioning the sale of indulgences and the Gospel foundations of papal authority.

As Reformation anniversary nears, German bishops stress Protestant ties

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OXFORD, England – Germany's Catholic bishops praised Martin Luther, who started the Protestant Reformation, as a "Gospel witness and teacher of the faith" and called for closer ties with Protestants.

People gather around flowers and burning candles July 17 to pay tribute to victims of the Bastille Day attack in Nice, France. France and Germany are facing challenges of radicalized Muslim youths in their own country.

France and Germany search for solutions to Islamist challenge

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PARIS – Violent Islamist attacks in France and Germany have piled pressure on the two governments to search for new ways to confront the grim challenge they now face: radicalized Muslim youth.

Indira Kaljo, a Bosnian-American professional basketball player, as seen in her video promoting a petition to allow hijab during FIBA competitions.

Pressure to allow hijab in basketball mounts as decision looms

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Something you won’t see in sun-worshipping, skin-baring Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympics continue: women covering their heads on the basketball court.

Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore holds a Catholic-Lutheran document titled "'Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry and Eucharist" during a a telephone news conference Nov. 4, 2015 in Washington. The document was approved by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans on August 10.

Assembly OKs document marking 50 years of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue

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NEW ORLEANS – A key action at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans was the approval Aug. 10 by 980 voting members of a document that marks 50 years of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, left, speaks at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus, Ohio, on July 31, 2016. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein At right, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at an American Renewal Project event at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 11, 2016.

Kaine, Trump address faithful of different stripes

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, recounting his work as a missionary and his role as a tenor in his Catholic church choir, cheered the efforts of a historically black Baptist denomination to get out the vote this election season.

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