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October 9, 2018

Aid groups, bishop sound alarm over humanitarian crisis affecting 21 million in Yemen

A woman holds a malnourished child Oct. 6 at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen's spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end the war and make badly need assistance available.
AMMAN, Jordan – Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen's spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end the war and make badly need assistance available.
Published in International
May 31, 2018

Displaced residents ask for prayers after lava forces Hawaiians out of homes

Volcanic gases rise from the Kilauea lava flow that crossed Pohoiki Road near Pahoa, Hawaii, May 28.

HONOLULU – Paul and Rose Utes, members of Sacred Heart Parish in Pahoa, had to leave their home when lava from the Kilauea eruptions moved into their section of the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna on the Big Island.

Published in International
August 19, 2016

West won’t recognize Christian Mideast exodus

In 2014 thousands of Eastern Christians took to the streets of Toronto to protest genocide in Daesh-held territories of Iraq and Syria.

Middle Eastern Christians have suffered soft, state-sponsored discrimination since the Ottomans ruled and that discrimination has been reinforced over generations by poor, underfunded education systems throughout the region. More recently this evil brew has been stirred into feverish, bigoted campaigns of hate spread by Saudi-funded Wahhabi preachers.

Published in International
July 30, 2014

Number of people displaced because of faith skyrockets in 2013

Displaced Iraqi refugees line up to receive free food inside the Khazer camp on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, June 29. The number of displaced people because of their religious beliefs skyrocketed in 2013.

WASHINGTON - The displacement of people around the globe because of their religious beliefs in 2013 rose to levels unseen in years, the State Department reported.

Published in International