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Samantha Jones of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux, left, and Casey Camp of the Ponca Nation are seen in Washington in this 2014 file photo. The Jesuits are returning more than 500 acres in South Dakota to the Rosebud Sioux.

Jesuits to return 525 acres of South Dakota land to Rosebud Sioux

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ST. FRANCIS, S.D. – The Jesuits are returning more than 500 acres in South Dakota to the Rosebud Sioux. The formal return of the property is expected to be complete sometime in May.

Specialists in Jojutla, Mexico, unearth remains found in unmarked graves March 21.

Mexican bishops call for action on missing persons, mass graves

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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican bishops' conference has issued a call for action on the cases of the country's thousands of missing persons, most of whom disappeared during the country's decades-long drug war and whose bodies are increasingly being unearthed from mass graves.

Demonstrators rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, May 3. Two days later, Pope Francis urged the country's bishops to remain close to the poor and needy.

Pope encourages Venezuela's bishops to stay close to suffering people

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VATICAN CITY – While violent protests continue to break out in the streets of Venezuela, Pope Francis urged the country's bishops to remain close to the poor and needy.

A group of Chibok girls are seen with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria, May 7. The girls were held captive for three years by Boko Haram militants.

Nigeria exchanges prisoners for 82 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram

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ABUJA, Nigeria – 82 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants over three years ago have been freed.

St. Joseph’s chapel in New York's Battery Park City neighbourhood, which became a Federal Emergency Management Agency command station during the September 11 terrorist attack, is now facing closure due to high rent.

Catholics desperate to save 9/11 chapel in New York

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NEW YORK, N.Y – On September 11, 2001, Justine Cuccia was nine months pregnant when she watched in horror as two hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City.

Claudia Raffaele is seen with a student at Jesuit High School in Portland Feb. 2.

Teacher who left Argentina during country's 'dirty war' fulfills a dream

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PORTLAND, Ore. – Claudia Raffaele knows the fear of being stopped at gunpoint in Argentina, the bone-tiredness that comes after a nine-hour shift at a Los Angeles factory, and the worry and emotional weight of caring for three children as a single mother.

Emma Joyce, a junior at Maur Hill-Mount Academy in Atchison, Kan., and a parishioner of St. Benedict Church in Bendena, Kan., helps repair a fence line March 22 at a ranch near Ashland, Kan., The ranch had sustained damage from a devastating wildfire that swept through that portion of the state in early March.

Kansas family among first to aid fellow farmers affected by wildfires

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Father Prakash Rao Kola was in Coldwater, Kansas, 30 miles east of Ashland, the afternoon of March 6 when he began to get frantic calls from parishioners.

The first leg of Priests Pedaling for Prayers took Father Michael Pica, Father Tom Otto and Father Adam Cesarek about 70 miles (113 km) over several major hills in central Illinois April 24. Support vehicles driven by parents Don Otto and Jim and Sandy Cesarek made certain the young priests and their friends were safe on the road during their five-day trek to promote religious vocations.

'Pedalling priests' complete 550-km bicycle trek for vocation prayers

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PEORIA, Ill. – After riding bicycles a little more than 340 miles (547 km) over five days, three young priests of the Diocese of Peoria sailed across the Indiana state line April 28, bringing Priests Pedalling for Prayers to a close.

11-time Grammy winning music producer Christopher Alder.

Grammy-winning producer guides Gregorian chant album

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NEW YORK CITY – When Christopher Alder, an 11-time Grammy winning music producer, first was asked to help create an album of Gregorian Chant, he was short on details.

Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles, who won the beauty crown in her hometown of Valle de Guadalupe in 2016, decided to follow her calling and join the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament.

Mexican beauty queen makes 'radical' move to religious life

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles is a young Mexican woman who was crowned last year as a beauty queen in her native town – and now she's joined the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament.

A mother and her children eat a meal at a camp for internally displaced persons on the grounds of St. Mary Catholic Cathedral April 24 in Wau, South Sudan. Drought and armed conflict have pushed tens of thousands of Wau-area residents out of their homes, away from their farms and unable to adequately feed themselves.

Hungry, scared South Sudanese stay in cathedral compound for protection

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WAU, South Sudan – Rita Williams slept under a tree beside St. Mary Catholic Cathedral, her three hungry children beside her. Around them, as many as 16,000 other displaced people filled the cathedral compound, hoping the church would keep them safe as their country spirals into greater violence.

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