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Bishop Santiago Silva of the Military Diocese of Chile, president of the Chilean bishops' conference, right, and Auxiliary Bishop Fernando Ramos, apostolic administrator of Rancagua, Chile, participate in a press conference after the 116th Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference in Punta de Tralca, Chile, Aug. 3.

Chilean bishops address failures in handling sexual abuse of minors

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SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile's bishops acknowledged they had "failed to fulfill our duty by not listening, believing, attending or accompanying the victims of grave sins" after a five-day meeting to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis rocking the country.
A man talks on his cellphone Aug. 6 next to an earthquake survivor outside a hospital on Lombok, Indonesia's popular tourist island. At least 91 people have been confirmed dead after the magnitude 7 earthquake Aug. 5, a week after another powerful quake killed more than a dozen people.

Indonesia's Lombok hit by another powerful earthquake

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JAKARTA, Indonesia – At least 91 people have been confirmed dead after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Indonesia's Lombok Island on Aug. 5 a week after another powerful quake killed more than a dozen people.
A man rides his bicycle behind a barricade erected in front of St. Peter Church June 15 in Sutiaba, Nicaragua. On July 5, the Nicaraguan police, with masked and armed paramilitary support, attacked Sutiaba, killing three people.

A month after government's 'clean-up,' a Nicaraguan community mourns three dead

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SUTIABA, Nicaragua – Father Victor Morales was awakened at 5 a.m. by the young men on the barricade outside his church. "They're coming, father. They're here," they told him.
Residents who returned from evacuation centres walk past a bullet-ridden house Oct. 29, 2017, believed to have been used by pro-Islamic State militant group leaders in Marawi, Philippines.

Philippine church leaders fear suicide bombing may heighten tensions with Muslims

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COTABATO, Philippines – Security forces were placed on full alert in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao following a deadly suicide bomb blast in Basilan province that killed 10 people.
Masidalia Abduraman teaches a class April 30 in the Catholic school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Catholic Church workers have accompanied people in the region, experiencing the same challenges as the people they serve.

Nuba Catholic Church 'a sign of hope' after surviving bombings, neglect

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NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan – The Nuba Mountains region in southern Sudan is a land the world has largely forgotten, except for the Catholic Church, which for more than three decades has stood with the people as they endured hunger, bombing and neglect.
Pope Francis addresses participants at an encounter marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2017. The death penalty is "contrary to the Gospel," the Pope said in his speech.

Pope Francis changes catechism to say death penalty is 'inadmissible'

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VATICAN – Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, concelebrate a Mass of thanksgiving in 2010 in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals of Archbishop McCarrick, and has ordered him to maintain "a life of prayer and penance" until a canonical trial examines accusations that he sexually abused minors.

Cardinal Wuerl focuses on next steps in wake of Archbishop McCarrick allegations

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WASHINGTON – The Catholic Standard, archdiocesan newspaper of Washington, published a question-and-answer interview July 31 with Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl about the next steps for the archdiocese in light of the sexual abuse allegations made against Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston at the opening of the bishops' annual spring assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 13.

Church must address its leaders' 'moral failures of judgment', president of U.S. bishops says

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WASHINGTON – Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick "will rightly face" a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders' "moral failures of judgment," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is pictured in 2016 in London. Britain's highest court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious without seeking permission from judges.

It is morally wrong to withdraw food, water from patients in vegetative state, U.K. bishop says

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MANCHESTER, England – Britain's highest court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious without seeking permission from judges.
Archbishop McCarrick is pictured in a 2013 photo at the Vatican.

Two Catholic universities rescind Archbishop McCarrick's honourary degrees

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WASHINGTON – The Catholic University of America announced July 30 that it was withdrawing the 2006 honorary degree awarded to then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, in light of recent sexual abuse allegations.
A woman and man carry a statue of Mary during a march in support of the Catholic Church July 28 in Managua, Nicaragua. The government is accusing Catholic bishops of siding with the opposition and encouraging protests.

Thousands march in support of Nicaraguan bishops after repeated attacks

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – The streets of Nicaragua were filled on July 28 by thousands of demonstrators supporting the country’s bishops and priests after repeated attacks by paramilitaries with ties to the government.
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