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Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York Sept. 25.

Popeat UN a boost for nuclear prohibition

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UNITED NATIONS - In the warm afterglow of Pope Francis’ Sept 25 address to the General Assembly, veteran United Nations’ observers drew a starkly candid road map of urgent actions that the world body must take to achieve its security agenda.

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church

Ukrainian bishops say military struggle must be matched by moral change

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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's Catholic bishops have urged citizens to back a "profound transformation" by voting in upcoming elections in areas controlled by the national government.

Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said Oct. 13 that the organization's clinics will no longer accept reimbursement for fetal tissue procured in abortions and provided to researchers.

Planned Parenthood in U.S. will no longer take payments for fetal tissue

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NEW YORK - The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said Oct. 13 that the organization's clinics will no longer accept reimbursement for fetal tissue procured in abortions and provided to researchers.

Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart of Aleppo, Syria, speaks at a meeting in the House of Lords in London Oct. 13. The archbishop pleaded with British politicians to stop supporting militant groups in Syria's civil war.

Melkite archbishop urges British not to support militants in Syria

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LONDON - A Syrian archbishop warned British politicians of the folly of supporting Islamic militants in the war in his country.

Newark Archbishop John Myers has given his priests strict guidelines on refusing Communion to Catholics who, for example, support gay marriage or whose own marriage is not valid in the eyes of the church.

NJ archbishop sets rules for barring Catholics from Communion

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ROME - Even as Pope Francis and Catholic leaders from around the world debate ways to make the Catholic Church more inclusive, Newark Archbishop John Myers has given his priests strict guidelines on refusing Communion to Catholics who, for example, support gay marriage or whose own marriage is not valid in the eyes of the church.

A member of the Missionaries of Charity holds orphan children in 2007 at a center in Kolkata, India. The Missionaries of Charity will close their adoption centers in India, citing new regulations that would allow nontraditional families to adopt children, reported ucanews.com.

Citing new rules, India's Missionaries of Charity to end adoption work

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CALCUTTA, India - The Missionaries of Charity will close their adoption centres in India, citing new regulations that would allow non-traditional families to adopt children, reported ucanews.com.
Civilians carry belongings recovered from a site hit by what residents said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 7.

Syrian archbishops support Russian military intervention in civil war

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MANCHESTER, England - A Syrian archbishop sees “a source of hope” in Russian airstrikes against rebel groups in their country.

Israeli Border Police patrol the the site in Jerusalem's Old City known as Haram al-Sharif by Muslims and that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount.

Netanyahu prohibits Israeli parliament from visiting Temple Mount

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JERUSALEM - In a bid to defuse the wave of Palestinian violence that has struck Israel and the West Bank during the past few weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prohibited all of the country’s parliamentarians from visiting the Temple Mount, a contentious site holy to both Jews and Arabs.

Pope Francis leads prayer in the synod hall at the Synod of Bishops on the Family.

This Synod is about the Holy Spirit

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The Synod on the Family is not about communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, or how to reach out to gay Catholics, or even celibacy of priests. It’s about the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis reminded 318 delegates as they began closed door discussions on family issues.

Archbishop Charles G. Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana

African archbishop: We’re not blocking progress in the church

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VATICAN CITY - Ghanaian Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle defended African bishops’ role in the Vatican’s meeting on family issues, stating they were not in Rome to block progress but to present their own views.

olunteers are seen in 2005 burying the remains of victims of the 1994 genocide in Murambi, Rwanda. A Rwandan government commission has criticized the dismissal of genocide charges against a Catholic priest who fled to France after the 1994 mass killing of the African country's Tutsi inhabitants.

French court dismisses genocide charges against priest; Rwanda not happy

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KIGALI, Rwanda - A Rwandan government commission has criticized the dismissal of genocide charges against a Catholic priest who fled to France after the 1994 mass killing of the African country's Tutsi inhabitants.

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