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A woman reacts during a protest against violence in Abuja, Nigeria, Aug. 15, 2020. In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na'Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan burned to death Sept. 7, 2023, when Fulani herdsmen attacked the rector at his parish church, St. Raphael in Fadan Kamantan.

Seminarian is burned to death in Nigeria in endless cycle of violence against Christians

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In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na’Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan was burned to death on Sept. 7 when a terrorist group called Fulani herdsmen attacked the rectory at St. Raphael Church in Fadan Kamantan.

A file photo shows a patient on a ventilator. The Anscombe Bioethics Center, an Oxford-based institute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland, criticized the Court of Protection Sept. 4, 2023, for its late August ruling that denies an "alert and conscious" teenager on a ventilator the legal right to fight a move to put her in end-of-life care against her will.

UK teenager wants to fight for her life, but court denies her wish

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A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an "alert and conscious" teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.

Shoppers at a supermarket in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, find shelves lacking items amid a regional food shortage. The shortage is the result of a blockade in the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.

Armenian Catholic Church calls for prayers to stop genocide

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Local Canadian Armenians with loved ones in the land-locked territory of Artsakh, are rallying to galvanize the international community over what experts, activists and residents identify as an unfolding genocide.

University of North Carolina students make their way across campus in Chapel Hil March 28, 2023. Amid an Aug. 28 shooting at the campus, two Catholic communities relied on faith and prudent security and mental health awareness plans.

Catholic parishes relied on faith, prudent planning during university shooting

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Two North Carolina pastors told OSV News their parish security plans were put to a real-life test when an active shooting unfolded nearby -- and safety and mental health ministries are serving as a model for other churches, said lay leaders.

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick wears a mask during arraignment at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. A Massachusetts judge dismissed a criminal case against the former cardinal Aug. 30, 2023, ruling the disgraced cleric no longer has the cognitive capacity to stand trial.

Judge dismisses criminal abuse charges against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick

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The Massachusetts sex abuse case against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick fell apart Wednesday as all criminal charges were dismissed due to the disgraced former cleric being deemed no longer mentally competent.

Pope Francis burns incense in front of a Marian statue after consecrating the world and, in particular, Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 25, 2022.

After Russia remarks stir outrage, Vatican says pope never intended to 'glorify imperialist logic'

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Russian clergy and lay Catholics were "caught by surprise" by the pope's remarks in a video call Aug. 25 to a youth gathering in St. Petersburg praising the country's past empire and urging young people to "never give up this heritage."

Young people hold a flag reading "peace" in Italian at the end of Pope Francis’s weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 23, 2023.

Pope Francis, urging young Russians to be proud of their heritage, stirs controversy

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The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said Ukrainians were shocked when Pope Francis told Russian Catholic youths to be proud of their heritage and cited two historic Russian leaders that, the archbishop said, are "the worst example of imperialism and extreme Russian nationalism."

A Nicaraguan exiled in Costa Rica holds up a sign reading: "Ortega and Murillo Out! #SOSNicaragua" during the "Vigil of Faith and Freedom" outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 19, 2022, to protest against the detention of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, by Nicaraguan authorities. The Nicaraguan regime extinguished the Jesuits' legal status Aug. 23, 2023, and said it will expropriate its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus to operate in the Central American country.

Society of Jesus banned in Nicaragua

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The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits' legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus to operate in the Central American country.

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke is pictured after receiving Communion during the funeral Mass for Australian Cardinal George Pell in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 14, 2023.

Cardinal Burke sees 'grave harm' coming from synod process

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The synod process underway around the world and at the Vatican is inflicting "evident and grave harm" on the Catholic Church, retired U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke wrote in a letter published as the foreword to a book.

People gather at a church building vandalized by protesters in Jaranwala, Pakistan, Aug. 16, 2023. A Muslim crowd vandalized churches and torched homes after two Christians were accused of blasphemy.

'We are willing to die for the name of Jesus,' persecuted Christians say as world marks day of awareness for religion-based violence

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On the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief, observed on the United Nations' calendar Aug. 22, Pakistan and India are among places of particular concern for Christian rights advocates.

Workers walk past a building of the Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, Aug. 16, 2023. The university suspended operations Aug. 16 after Nicaraguan authorities branded the school a "center of terrorism" the previous day and froze its assets for confiscation.

Jesuits evicted from residence after Nicaragua university seized

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Nicaraguan officials evicted a team of Jesuits from their home in the capital city of Managua shortly after seizing a prestigious university from the religious order -- an act the Society of Jesus called a "spectacle."

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