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Catholic leaders and advocates lay on the floor of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington July 18, 2019, to protest the Trump administration's handling of detained immigrant children.

Catholics focus on migrant children with rally, civil disobedience

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WASHINGTON -- A few hundred Catholic activists, including dozens of women religious, gathered outside at the foot of the U.S. Capitol July 18 urging politicians to stop its "inhumane treatment" of immigrant children at the border and reminding people of faith to take a stronger stand against current U.S. border policies.

A clergyman and altar servers process during Mass July 20, 2014, at St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq. Chaldean Christians in northern Iraq are determined to continue their 2,000-year-long mission despite the near-deadly blow inflicted by Islamic State forces and new challenges from nongovernment militias, said a priest ministering in the region.

Chaldeans in northern Iraq face uncertainty in return to homes

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WASHINGTON -- Chaldean Christians in northern Iraq are determined to continue their 2,000-year-long mission despite the near-deadly blow inflicted by Islamic State forces and new challenges from nongovernment militias, said a priest ministering in the region.

This is an aerial view of The Houses of Parliament in London. After a vote in the House of Lords, abortion and same-sex marriage will be made legal in Northern Ireland unless self-government in the province is restored within three months.

Britain votes to legalize abortion, same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland

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MANCHESTER, England -- Abortion and same-sex marriage will be made legal in Northern Ireland unless self-government in the province is restored within three months.

A woman is assisted at the site of a car bomb blast outside the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Qamishli, Syria, July 11, 2019. At least 11 people were injured in the blast during evening services. It was unclear who was responsible for the attack.

Syriac Christians living near border fear Turkey military incursion

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AMMAN, Jordan -- Syriac Christians in northeastern Syria are calling on the United States to help defend them against a buildup of Turkish troops along the border, fearing they will be overrun and suffer the same fate as Afrin, where jihadist forces pushed out inhabitants last year.

Choir members sing at the In Defense of Christians Ecumenical Prayer Service July 15, 2019, in Washington. The prayer service opened the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, taking place July 16-18 and convening government officials, representatives of international organizations, faith leaders, rights advocates and members of civil society organizations from around the world to discuss challenges to religious freedom.

Report gives snapshot of efforts to protect religious freedom around globe

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WASHINGTON -- In conjunction with the U.S. State Department's Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, the Religious Freedom Institute presented a side event July 15 to discuss current international religious freedom policy.

A volunteer picks up trash at Freedom Island, a marshland considered to be a sanctuary for birds, fish and mangroves in a coastal area of Las Pinas City, near Manila, Philippines, April 22, 2015. Catholic bishops in the Philippines criticized "the continuing destruction of our common home" and called for "ecological conversion" amid "climate emergency."

Philippine bishops call for 'ecological conversion'

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MANILA, Philippines -- Catholic bishops in the Philippines criticized "the continuing destruction of our common home" and called for "ecological conversion" amid "climate emergency."

Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of American and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, are seen at the In Defense of Christians Ecumenical Prayer Service July 15, 2019, in Washington. The prayer service opened the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, taking place July 16-18, 2019, and convening government officials, representatives of international organizations, faith leaders, rights advocates and members of civil society organizations from around the world to discuss challenges to religious freedom.

Global leaders address religious freedom at State Department

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WASHINGTON -- The rabbi of a Pittsburgh Jewish community where 11 people were killed by a gunman in October told a worldwide meeting of religious freedom activists that only by rejecting racism and bigotry can violence in the name of religion be overcome.

Syriac Catholic Father Youssef Sakat poses for a photo July 8, 2019, inside the chapel at the Holy Family Syriac Catholic center in Beirut.

Monks saved manuscripts from Islamic militants in Iraq

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BEIRUT -- The first time a band of Islamic State militants "visited" the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion, in a nonthreatening manner: "Why don't you become a Muslim?"

In this 2017 file photo, people in New York City carry the U.S. flag.

U.S. receives poor marks in Pew report on religious freedoms

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WASHINGTON -- The Pew Research Center's annual report on restrictions on religion worldwide showed the United States had the worst scores in the Americas in three of the eight categories Pew surveyed.

Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako, the Chaldean Catholic patriarch, speaks during the presentation of the UK Independent Review on Persecution of Christians, in Rome July 15, 2019. Looking on is Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, an official at the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Iraq would be caught in the middle of U.S.-Iran conflict, cardinal fears

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DOHUK, Iraq -- Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Louis Sako is concerned by rising tensions between the United States and Iran, fearful that his country, Iraq, could be caught in the middle of any potential conflict. It has also made a proposed visit by Pope Francis to Iraq next year uncertain, he said.

Deacon Jose Montoya, 52, pictured July 8, 2019, shows how he was attacked outside the church at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey near Lafayette, Ore., July 1, by a man who said the devil told him to throw the punch.

Deacon subdues attacker at abbey

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Deacon Jose Montoya stares in horror. What if the vicious surprise punch had hit an elderly monk instead of on his own face? Such a blow might have killed a frailer man. And what if the attacker had wielded a knife or a gun?

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