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A young woman uses a police booth for shelter in Beirut Oct. 12 amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

War latest misery for beleaguered Lebanese

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As Israel has escalated its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon across a United Nations-drawn boundary between the two countries, more than a million people have fled their homes.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike as displaced Palestinians make their way to flee areas in the eastern part of Khan Younis following an Israeli evacuation order, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Oct. 7, 2024.

No Jubilee year if Holy Land still bleeding

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Without a ceasefire, the upcoming Jubilee year in Rome will be marred by the suffering and bloodshed in the Holy Land, Palestine's ambassador to the Holy See said.

Cardinals arrive in procession to the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome before the celebration of Ash Wednesday Mass with Pope Francis Feb. 14, 2024.

Statistically speaking: How pope's choices change College of Cardinals

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Popes have made a habit of exceeding the statutory limit on the number of cardinals under the age of 80, but Pope Francis is planning to set a record.

Our Lady of Medjugorje Shrine with St. James Church in the background.

Medjugorje bears 'spiritual fruits'

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Sally Fong is among the thousands upon thousands who say they have received blessings and witnessed dramatic change in others from a pilgrimage to Medjugorge.

Dr. Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s state secretary for the aid of persecuted Christians, addresses media at a Council of the European Union gathering in Brussels, Belgium on Sept. 26. Pictured with Azbej is György Hölvényi, a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democratic People’s Party.

‘Wall of silence’ on Christian persecution must fall

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Dr. Tristan Azbej came to Ottawa determined to recruit allies in the mission to support oppressed followers of Christ around the world.

Posters of a young Catholic student named Philippine de Carlan, whose body was found half-buried in Paris' Bois de Boulogne area and whom police suspect was murdered by a 22-year-old Moroccan man, are seen at the Place Denfert Rochereau in the French capital Sept. 29, 2024, during a demonstration of a feminist group called Nemesis. The poster reads, "Philippine could have been our sister".

France mourns Catholic university student murdered by repeat migrant offender

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It felt as if the whole country mourned and wept as family, friends and 3,000 other people packed the St. Louis Cathedral in Versailles Sept. 27 to say goodbye to 19-year-old student Philippine de Carlan, who was found murdered in Bois de Boulogne, or the Boulogne Forest, in Paris Sept. 21.

A drone view Sept. 29, 2024, shows rescue personnel working in a flooded area in Asheville, N.C., following the passing of Tropical Storm Helene. The storm made landfall at 11:10 p.m. (Eastern time) Sept. 27 in Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane and was downgraded to a tropical storm the next morning.

Relief efforts underway in western North Carolina; flooding caused by Helene devastates region

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Relief efforts are under way to help communities across western North Carolina reeling from the impacts of Tropical Storm Helene.

People in Basra, Iraq, hold a poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a gathering following the announcement of his death Sept. 28, 2024.

'Catastrophic' situation faces Lebanon, says U.N. rep

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Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs were struck multiple times Sept. 27 by Israeli missiles, shaking the Lebanese capital. The next day Iran-backed Hezbollah confirmed the military organization's leader Hassan Nasrallah died in the strike.

Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago Aug. 22, 2024. Harris said Sept. 21 she will not attend the 79th dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation in New York City Oct. 17. The Catholic charities fundraiser has become a staple for presidential nominees in election years. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, confirmed his attendance in a social media post Sept. 23.

'Disappointed' Cardinal Dolan holds out hope Harris will join Trump at the Al Smith dinner

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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said he is "disappointed" that Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend the Al Smith charity dinner Oct. 17, a New York Catholic charities fundraiser that has become a staple for presidential nominees in election years. But he still held out hope that the Democratic nominee could change her plans and join the event which her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, is now planning to attend.

A Caritas logo is pictured in a 2019 photo.

Caritas 'shocked' by murder of director in Democratic Republic of Congo

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The director of Caritas in Congo was shot and killed by an armed militant group while approaching a roadblock, Caritas Internationalis announced.

Students are pictured during class at École Épiscopale de Jabboulé in Lebanon. The school is run by the Notre Dame du Bon Service congregation.

War, economic crisis threaten Lebanon’s Catholic schools

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A prolonged economic crisis, exacerbated by the spill-over effects of the war in Gaza, is causing an increasing number of Catholic schools, the mainstay of the education system in Lebanon, to close their doors, say officials of Catholic charities and educators battling to help these institutions to survive.

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