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Haitian National Police patrol outside the College Marie-Anne in Port-au-Prince Jan. 22, 2024, days after six nuns were kidnapped by armed men while sisters were traveling on a bus. The nuns, who have since been freed, were abducted, along with other passengers on a bus, are members of the Sisters of St. Anne, the congregation that runs the college.

'We give thanks to God!' says Haiti archbishop as six nuns are freed from captivity

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The six nuns kidnapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 19 have been freed, and the archbishop of the capital was overjoyed and thankful at the news.

Haitian National Police patrol outside the College Marie-Anne in Port-au-Prince Jan. 22, 2024, days after six nuns were kidnapped by armed men while sisters were traveling on a bus. The nuns who were abducted, along with other passengers are members of the Sisters of St. Anne, the congregation that runs the College Marie-Anne.

Haiti bishops appeal for release of religious sisters kidnapped by suspected gang members

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The bishops of Haiti appealed for the release of six women religious who were kidnapped Jan. 19 in a country mired in crisis because of gang violence.

Representatives of international victims' initiatives demonstrate in Rome Sept. 28, 2023, holding protest posters, including one that reads, "Fernández must go!" and another that says, "Fernández: No friend to victims." Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández is prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Zen calls for resignation of doctrinal prefect after 'Fiducia Supplicans'

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After authorizing blessings for homosexual couples, the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, is facing backlash from multiple national churches and certain clerics across the globe.

A Palestinian is carried into Nasser Hospital Jan. 22, 2024, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Jerusalem church official: Gaza situation 'extremely catastrophic'

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The situation in the Gaza Strip is "extremely catastrophic," and people are dying not only from violence but from preventable illnesses, said the CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

People take a wounded man to a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2023, after gangs took over their neighborhood Carrefour-Feuilles. Vatican News reported Jan. 19, 2024, that armed men in Port-au-Prince took over a bus and kidnapped at least six nuns and others who were on the bus. The gunmen, who drove off with them to an unknown destination, were not immediately identified but authorities suspected they were gang members.

Armed men kidnap 6 nuns, others in Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince

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Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious.

Our Lady of the Cape is blessed by Bishop J. Fred Colli at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2022.

Our Lady of the Cape to hit world stage

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Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que.’s Our Lady of the Cape Marian statue will be a lady of the hour at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis this summer.

Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, president of the Polish bishops' conference, poses for a photo in Rome Sept. 25, 2021.

Polish prelate offers help in case of jailed ex-members of government on hunger strike

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The hunger strike by two imprisoned ex-members of the Polish government has caused an international stir. Now the church wants to try to resolve the conflict.

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and Ambassador Visconti di Madrone, the order's governor general, light candles at the site marking the birth of Jesus in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Cardinal Filoni makes pilgrimage to Holy Land as sign of peace, solidarity

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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Men install an Armenian flag next to a checkpoint on the road leading to Artsakh near the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia, Sept. 22, 2023.

Armenians won’t accept loss of Artsakh

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The 100,000 Armenians who fled en masse after Azerbaijan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh — the enclave known to Armenians as Artsakh — last September are now facing a bitter winter as homeless refugees in Armenia.

A file photo shows a "Defend Religious Freedom" banner above the front door of St. John's Church in Onawa, Iowa. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' first annual "State of Religious Liberty in the United States," published Jan. 16, 2024, identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the church's service to people who are migrants.

U.S. bishops identify liberty concerns

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A new annual report by the U.S. bishops’ conference identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the Church’s service to people who are migrants.

A bouquet of flowers to celebrate the end of the reconstruction of the medieval choir framework of the Notre Dame Cathedral is pictured in Paris Jan. 12.

Notre Dame roof structure completed

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In a historic year for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which the French capital and the whole world will see reopen Dec. 8, milestones will be reported on regularly, but this one made Parisians shed a tear or two: Reconstruction of the roof structure is now complete.

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