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Melbourne Archbishops Denis Hart, left, see at the Vatican Oct 18, 2014. Archbishop Hart was one of four bishops from Victoria who signed a pastoral letter speaking out against the state’s proposals to legalize euthanasia.

Australian bishops: Assisted suicide is the opposite of health care

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MELBOURNE, Australia – Proposals to legalize euthanasia in the Australian state of Victoria are based on “misplaced compassion,” the local bishops said.

People cross a street flooded by the Piura River March 27 in Peru.

Peruvians who lost everything in floods ask help to get Bibles

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LIMA, Peru – Archbishop José Antonio Eguren of Piura and Tumbes, Peru visited the inhabitants of one of the areas most affected by the recent floods in northern Peru, who asked him to help them get some Bibles.

Marine Le Pen, left, and Emmanuel Macron, the two candidates who captured the most votes in the first round of France's presidential election, will face off against each other May 7.

French bishops offer divided voters guidelines on presidential runoff

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PARIS – A few hours after the announcement of the winners of the first round of the French presidential election, the French bishops' conference published a reflection on voting in the final round.

Egyptian security services stand guard at the site of a July 16, 2015 bomb blast in Cairo. Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke says hightened security is the "new normal" in wake of Palm Sunday attacks in Egypt.

Tight security is 'new normal' as Pope heads to Egypt, says Vatican spokesperson

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VATICAN CITY – Despite the ongoing risk of terrorism, Pope Francis planned to travel to Egypt as a sign of being close to the people there, said Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman.

Stacks of booklets distributed by Alexander Kalistratov, left, the local leader of a Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, are seen during the court session Dec. 16, 2010, in the Siberian town of Gorno-Altaysk.

Why Russia's ban on Jehovah's Witnesses is so troubling

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MOSCOW, Russia – The Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned as an extremist group in a Thursday Supreme Court decision that observers feared signalled a further step back for religious liberty.

One of the more than 1,000 statues of Our Lady Fatima that retired Portuguese businessman Jose Camara has sent to parishes around the world is seen in Cape Town, South Africa.

Portuguese businessman sends free Fatima statues throughout world

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Every time Jose Camara thinks his ministry is completed, somebody else needs a statue of Our Lady of Fatima to spread the devotion.

Archbishop Georg Ganswein greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Joachim Sauer, at the Vatican March 24. Amid rising unrest and influx of refugees, some ordinary Germans feel their concerns are being ignored by the Church and the government.

Amid influx of migrants, some Germans think their concerns are ignored

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REGENSBURG, Germany – Amid rising social unrest and an influx of Mideast migrants, German authorities – including Catholic Church officials – are facing criticism from ordinary people who believe their concerns are being ignored.

Pope Francis and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi shake hands during a private audience in 2014 at the Vatican.

Egypt trip part of Pope's mission to inspire and encourage

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis' visit to Egypt, a land increasingly marked by terrorist-led bloodshed, stands as part of his mission to inspire and encourage today's actors in theatres of violence to change the script and set a new stage.

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary general of the Indian bishops' conference, released a statement condemning the disruption of a Good Friday service by local officials and police at a small parish in South India.

Indian bishops slam 'brutal' disruption of Good Friday service

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ROME, Italy – India's Catholic bishops have strongly condemned a violent police disruption of a Good Friday service at a small parish in the south of the country.

Girls are pictured at the Bernardine Sisters' school in Kamonyi, Rwanda. When the village observes the anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the schoolchildren walk together to the local memorial, where they have a ceremony and read the names of local victims.

'Sister Listeners' help Rwandans move beyond genocide

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KIGALI, Rwanda – The Benebikira Sisters, the oldest indigenous congregation in Rwanda, have sisters who are teachers, nurses, pharmacists, formators and administrators. But they also have religious with a unique title: Sister Listeners.

A priest holds an image of Our Lady of Aparecida during a Mass in Brazil's Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida Oct. 11, 2011. Pope Francis has declined Brazil president Michael Temer’s invitation to visit for the 300th anniversary of the Marian apparition.

Pope regrets inability to visit Brazil for Aparecida apparition anniversary

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis sent a letter to the president of Brazil, apologizing for his inability to visit in 2017 and encouraging the leader's attention to the country's social issues.

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