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The Catholic Church is helping to rebuild Myanmar as it emerges from six decades of military rule and isolation through peace-building efforts and education, Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon said in a recent interview.

Myanmar's biggest challenge is to stop ethnic conflicts, says cardinal

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YANGON, Myanmar – The Catholic Church is helping to rebuild Myanmar as it emerges from six decades of military rule and isolation through peace-building efforts and education, Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon said in a recent interview with National Catholic Reporter.

Sister Maria Sponsa Iusti Ioseph said Christians in Aleppo feel protected by the prayers of Christians from around the world.

Aleppo's Christians feel protected by prayers around the world

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ALEPPO, Syria – The attitude of Christians in Aleppo seems to have improved since Syrian government forces re-took the city, and they believe the prayers of Christians abroad have helped them, one religious sister reports.

Sister Nora Valencia of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Jesus has been the director of Santa Clara Foundation in Santiago de Chile since 2008.

This Chilean home offers hope for children with HIV

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SANTIAGO, Chile – Fighting the scourge of discrimination that often accompanies HIV, the Santa Clara Foundation in Santiago de Chile has worked since 1994 to ensure that children with the virus experience God’s love and have a better quality of life.

A demonstration in Charlotte, North Carolina in support of refugees Jan. 29. Despite battles in court over U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order, refugeea families continue to arrive in the Diocese of Charlotte.

U.S. diocese continues to receive refugees as courts battle travel ban

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Refugee families continue to arrive in the Diocese of Charlotte while U.S. President Donald Trump and the courts battle over his executive order temporarily banning travel to the United States by citizens from six Muslim-majority countries 90 days and suspending resettlement of refugees for 120 days.

A Shiite woman calms her crying child as she waits with other Shiite Muslims from South Asia to greet their spiritual leader in Cairo on June 12, 2010.

Muslim births projected to outnumber Christian births globally by 2035

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Within 20 years, the number of Muslim babies being born is expected to surpass Christian births — though there will still be more Christians in the world.

Members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador at the launching ceremony of the Tri-National Force , aimed at fighting and disrupting street gangs, organized crime and cross-border violence by monitoring shared border areas.

U.S. urged to consider conditions in Central America before mass deportation

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MEXICO CITY – An international organization that works to prevent conflict urged the United States not to institute mass deportations or harsh anti-migration measures without checking on the conditions in the Central American countries to which it is returning migrants.

Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, was confirmed by the Senate April 7.

Pro-life, religious freedom leaders cheer confirmation of Neil Gorsuch

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WASHINGTON – Pro-life and religious freedom advocates cheered the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch on Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court, filling an almost 14 month-long vacancy.

The USS Porter, in the Mediterranean Sea, fires a Tomahawk missile April 7. The U.S. Defense Department said it was a part of missile strike against Syria.

Catholic leaders in Syria condemn U.S. missile strikes

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WASHINGTON – Two prominent Catholic leaders in Syria criticized the U.S. missile strikes against their nation, wondering why they occurred before investigations into the origins of chemical attacks reported April 4.

Msgr. William A. Dombrow, 77, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia responsible for a retirement home for priests, faces federal charges of embezzling more than $535,000 from that same home. Msgr. Dombrow is pictured in an undated photo.

Philadelphia priest overseeing retirement home faces embezzlement charges

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PHILADELPHIA – A priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia responsible for a retirement home for priests faces federal charges of embezzling more than $535,000 from that same home.

Sister Cecilia Argoti Narvaez, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, was kidnapped in the southern Mali city of Karangasso February 7.

Four people charged in connection with kidnapped nun in Mali

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BAMAKO, Mali – Four people have been arrested in Mali in connection with the February kidnapping of a nun who remains missing.

Opposition supporters in Kinshasa, Congo, chant slogans during a Sept. 19, 2016 protest. The country's bishops say there is has been an eruption of violence against Catholics in eastern Congo since the church's peace mediation plan collapsed.

Congo's bishops: Catholics in east face new wave of violence

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KINSHASA, Congo – Congo's bishops said Catholics are facing a new wave of violence following the collapse of a church mediation plan, and in some places church leaders have fled to the forest.

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