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Angeline Fernando and Vangie Lapada, foreign workers from the Philippines, take a selfie wearing Santa hats at the Christmas market in the central bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 9. The market offers an opportunity for foreigners to buy decorations for Christmas in the Jewish state.

Israel's foreign workers visit pop-up Christmas market to help cure homesickness

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TEL AVIV, Israel – For foreign workers and other nonlocal Christians living in Israel, celebrating Christmas far from loved ones in a country where Christians are a minority can be a difficult time.
Protesters march outside the venue of the UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland.

Catholics ask for more 'heart and soul' at UN environmental conference

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Standing on the outside looking in as the world’s environment ministers and their armies of technocrats hammered out the rulebook for Paris Agreement on climate change, Canadian Josianne Gauthier wished there was an injection  of urgency onto the agenda.

Boys play with Legos at a Catholic orphanage in Bonn, Germany, during Advent in 1960. The number of German children in orphanages surged after World War II. The Diocese of Hildesheim is investigating reports that many children in these homes were victims of sexual abuse by clergy.

Postwar orphans were sex abuse victims of German clergy, investigation finds

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An investigation by the Diocese of Hildesheim, Germany, is shedding new light on child sex abuse in Catholic children's homes in the country in the 1950s. A central figure in the inquiry is an esteemed and controversial figure, Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen, a former priest in Nazi-occupied Poland awarded Germany's highest federal decoration in 1966 for postwar charity work.
“It’s a discussion that I think a lot of people would like to have,” said Halifax Archbishop Anthony Mancini of the new proposal.

Proposal would increase power of archbishops in dealing with sex abuse

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A proposal by American bishops has borrowed from medieval practice to offer a solution to the complex canon-law conundrum of how to hold bishops to account for sexual misconduct and abuse coverups.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, is pictured Oct. 11 at the Vatican. Cardinal Nichols told an independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse Dec. 13 that he was shocked to learn a now-deceased vicar in Birmingham tried to help two pedophile priests flee to United States.

English cardinal shocked to learn vicar sent two pedophile priests to U.S.

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LONDON – An English cardinal has told an inquiry into child abuse of his shock at learning that a vicar general of his former archdiocese tried to help two pedophile priests escape to the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials Dec. 9 detain a migrant woman and children after they crossed illegally with other migrants in the U.S. from Mexico at International Friendship Park in San Diego. They were part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States.

The key to solving migration crisis is education, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – As the celebration of Christmas draws near, the plight of the Holy Family calls to mind the sufferings of the many men, women and children escaping war and persecution, Pope Francis said.
Palestinian children receiving treatment are seen in early September at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem.

Protection of human dignity must be government priority, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – Protecting human dignity and human rights must always be at the heart of any action by world leaders to confront the many humanitarian crises afflicting today's world, Pope Francis said.
A French soldier stands guard near a closed wooden barrack shop at the traditional Christkindelsmaerik (Christ Child market) in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg Dec.12, the day after a shooting. At least two people were killed while one person was left brain dead and at least a dozen others were injured after a gunman attacked the market Dec. 11, authorities said.

Strasbourg bishop speaks of 'lucid madness' after terror attack at Christmas market

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STRASBOURG, France – At noon Dec. 12, the bells of every Catholic church in Strasbourg rang for 10 minutes to honor the victims of a terror attack at a Christmas market the previous day.
A police officer stands next to a body at the scene of a shooting Dec. 11 at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, Brazil. Police said Euler Fernando Grandolpho opened fire in the cathedral, killing at least four people and injuring several others before the 49-year-old turned the gun on himself after being shot by police.

Shooting in cathedral leaves five dead, four injured in Brazil

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SAO PAOLO – A gunman opened fire inside a Brazilian church, killing four people and injuring four others before turning the gun on himself, police said.
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, holds the pen given to him by U.S. President Donald Trump Dec. 11 after Trump used it to sign into law the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 at the White House in Washington. The bill will provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold accountable Islamic State perpetrators of genocide.

New U.S. law will provide relief to genocide victims of Islamic State in Iraq, Syria

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has signed into law the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018, which will provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold accountable Islamic State perpetrators of genocide.
Philippine soldiers use a crane to lift three Balangiga Bells off crates during a turnover ceremony Dec. 11 at Villamor Air Base near Manila. After more than a century, the United States government has returned the three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga in 1901.

U.S. returns 'Balangiga Bells' to Philippines after more than 100 years

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MANILA, Philippines – After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga.

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