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Ricardo Lemos, 28, shreds cooked chicken for sandwiches his wife sells daily in Quito, Ecuador. The family fled violence in Colombia.

Colombians who flee to Ecuador face discrimination, and fear remains

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QUITO, Ecuador - Carlos Leon and Carmen Barrera thought the worst was over when they escaped the death threats in Colombia.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to end taxpayer support of Planned Parenthood and reaching out to evangelicals to do so. He is pictured here in a 2013 photo.

Ted Cruz tries to rouse evangelicals with campaign against Planned Parenthood

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is waging a campaign to defund Planned Parenthood, an effort involving pastors, sermons and fasting that the Texas senator insists isn’t political.

Seminarians serve food to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in 2005 at a temporary shelter in Baton Rouge, La. From the time the storm struck New Orleans through February 2006, Catholic Charities in the Baton Rouge Diocese served 103,187 people, and received more than $17 million in grant funding that was distributed in myriad of ways.

Katrina evacuees found shelter, relief in Baton Rouge Diocese

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BATON ROUGE, La. - Ten years later the memories still linger for Carol Spruell, as if they happened yesterday but perhaps were a lifetime ago.

A man walks past an abandoned building in the Upper Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans Aug. 1. More than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, the city continues to rebuild.

Katrina odyssey brought many blessings for New Orleans priest

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NEW ORLEANS - Like many of his brother priests, Fr. Dennis Hayes decided to take his chances and stay put as Katrina teased the Louisiana coast, hoping the storm's Category 5 fury would spare his parish of St. Louise de Marillac in Arabi.

Cardinal William J. Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco and of Portland, Oregon, and the retired prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is pictured in a 2010 photo. Cardinal Levada was arrested about midnight Aug. 19 in Kailua-Kona, on the island of Hawaii, for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Cardinal Levada arrested in Hawaii on drunk-driving charge

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KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - Cardinal William J. Levada was arrested in Kailua-Kona, on the island of Hawaii, for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The arrest was made at about midnight Aug. 19. Levada, 79, was released after posting $500 bond. He is due to appear in court Sept. 24.

Pope Francis poses for a photo with Argentine youths during his weekly audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Aug. 19.

Catholics love their celebrity Pope and most — not all — his priorities

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Americans are gung-ho for Pope Francis’ U.S. visit — if they know he’s coming.

They really, really like him, too, particularly Catholics — even if they’re sometimes confused about what he believes.

"Homeless Jesus" is pictured in this July 29 photo of the seven-foot-long bronze sculpture that sits in front of a downtown Washington building occupied by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. Pope Francis is expected to pass by the statue Sept. 24 during the Washington-leg of his U.S. visit.

Pope Francis to see 'Homeless Jesus' during U.S. visit

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WASHINGTON - When Pope Francis approaches the Catholic Charities building in downtown Washington during his U.S. visit in September, he will encounter a "homeless person" covered in a blanket laying on a park bench.

Asia Bibi, seen in this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, was sentenced to death in 2010 for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, a charge she denies. Her father, Soran Masih, has been denied visitation rights by jail authorities.

Court grants visitation rights to father of Pakistani woman on death row

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LAHORE, Pakistan - A Pakistani court has directed the Punjab provincial government and police to give the father of death row convict Asia Bibi prison visitation rights, a family lawyer said.

A boy waves the American flag Nov. 20, 2014 at CASA de Maryland's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., after hearing President Barack Obama's national address on immigration. A U.S. federal judge ordered the Obama administration to release the immigrant mothers and children locked in detention centres by Oct. 23, 2015.

Judge orders release of immigrant families within 60 days

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WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge Aug. 21 gave the Obama administration 60 days — until Oct. 23 — to release the hundreds of immigrant mothers and children being held in locked detention centres.

People carry the casket of Vittorio Casamonica into St. John Bosco Church in Rome for his Aug. 20 funeral Mass. Television programs, coffee bars, Italian Twitter accounts and the corridors of political power were abuzz Aug. 20-21 with news and commentary about the extravagance surrounding the funeral of the reputed boss of an organized crime ring in Rome.

Reputed mafia don's extravagant funeral raises questions in Rome

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ROME - Television programs, coffee bars, Italian Twitter accounts and the corridors of political power were abuzz Aug. 20-21 with news and commentary about the extravagance surrounding the funeral of the reputed boss of an organized crime ring in Rome.

A future museum focusing on the Bible will also house ancient Holy Land artifacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority. In this photo, the Gutenberg Bible is shown.

Museum of the Bible allies with Israeli antiquities agency

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WASHINGTON - A Christian family’s ambitious Bible museum project has forged a key alliance with the Israel Antiquities Authority, giving treasures from the Holy Land a temporary home just steps from the National Mall.

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