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Cardinal Juan Jose Omella of Barcelona, Spain, is pictured in a 2018 file photo in New York. The Barcelona Archdiocese will combine most parishes into larger pastoral communities in an effort to better utilize pastoral resources.

Spanish cardinal urges calm as protests mount over separatist amnesty

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The president of the Spanish bishops' conference has appealed for calm following mass protests against the planned release of jailed Catalan separatists under a deal with the new socialist-led government.

Pope Francis receives a gift from Sultan al-Jaber, the president-designate of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, during a meeting at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023. COP28 is set to open Nov. 30 in Dubai and the pope will travel there Dec. 1-3.

Dubai bound: Pope Francis seeks action at COP28

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When Pope Francis visits Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to address the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference, he will be the first pope ever to attend one of the global gatherings that began in 1995.

An exterior view of the Fontaine Hospital Center is pictured in the neighborhood of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 27, 2023. The hospital located in an extremely impoverished area of Haiti's capital -- had to be evacuated Nov. 15 after armed gang clashes enveloped the facility.

Haiti hospital attack shows 'those most in need' pay price of violence, says CRS rep

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A recent attack on a hospital in Haiti underscores the desperate condition of that nation's civilians, a Catholic Relief Services official told OSV News.

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters in Buenos Aires Nov. 19, 2023, after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election. Milei has derided Pope Francis as a "filthy leftist," though some weeks ahead of the election he softened his tone to win more centrist voters, according to analysts.

Javier Milei wins presidential elections in Argentina

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Upstart presidential candidate Javier Milei, who attacked Pope Francis as "filthy leftist," overwhelmingly won Argentina's presidential election on a radical libertarian platform of dollarizing the economy and shrinking the state in a country beset by recurring economic crises and triple-digit inflation.

A man embraces Palestinian children as people search for casualties at the site of an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza City.

Christians fear for Holy Land future

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Despite a looming threat of being displaced forever from the Holy Land, the Christian community in Gaza is staying faithful to its commitment to help compatriots in facing an increasingly serious humanitarian crisis as war consumes all around them.

Indi Gregory, an 8-month-old child suffering from a degenerative disease who was at the center of a legal battle in the U.K. to keep her on life support, is pictured Sept. 22, 2023, the day of her baptism. Indi died on Nov. 13, 2023.

Indi Gregory, British girl whose life support was halted by court, dies

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Indi Gregory, a British girl whose parents battled the British courts to have her life support extended, died at 1:45 a.m. U.K. time Nov. 13.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, and other U.S. bishops concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican Jan. 20, 2020. The bishops were making their "ad limina" visits to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials. The Holy See Press Office announced Nov. 11, 2023, that Pope Francis has "relieved" Bishop Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler.

Bishop Strickland removed from diocese after accusing pope of backing 'attack on the sacred'

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Pope Francis has "relieved" Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, the Holy See Press Office announced Nov. 11. Simultaneously, Francis has appointed Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin as apostolic administrator to oversee the diocese until a new bishop is appointed.

Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, holds a closing rally in Naples, Italy, Sept. 23, 2022.

Italy's prime minister takes case of baby on life support to highest levels of diplomacy

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has urgently written to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk of the United Kingdom calling for the two countries to officially collaborate on facilitating 8-month-old Indi Gregory's transfer to Rome under the Hague Convention.

Father Stephen Rooney smiles as he exchanges the sign of peace with Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre, N.Y., during his ordination to the priesthood at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre June 18, 2022.

Younger U.S. priests increasingly identify as theologically conservative, politically moderate, 'first responders' to abuse

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A closer look at the largest survey of U.S. Catholic priests in 50 years has revealed "a major shift in how priests view themselves and their priesthood," said researchers.

Municipal workers clean an area at the site of a Russian missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine, Nov. 6. Ukraine’s Secret Service announced suspicion against Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, who, it said, “blessed the racists to kill Ukrainians.”

Ukraine’s Secret Service probes Russian Patriarch

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Ukraine’s Secret Service, SBU, has gathered evidence against Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who, it said, “blessed the racists to kill Ukrainians.”

Foreign tourists visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem July 10, 2021. Tourists are few and far between with the latest eruption of fighting in the Holy Land.

‘Jobless and hopeless’: Latest fighting devastates Bethlehem’s tourist industry

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“I’ve never experienced anything like this before, never! It’s a war, not ‘like a war,’ it is a war,” said Rony Tabash, a member of a Christian family that has been in Bethlehem for generations, describing how the current conflict is directly impacting the Christian community in the West Bank.

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