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Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reject suggestion by Irish abuse victim Marie Collins that Pope Francis is facing internal resistance to overhaul the Church's administration.

Top Vatican cardinal rejects abuse victim’s critique, denies opposing Pope Francis

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s top doctrinal official, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, has rejected suggestions from a clergy abuse victim that Pope Francis is facing critical internal resistance from foes of his efforts to overhaul the Church’s central administration.

The Vatican Secretariat for the Economy said March 4 that, despite posting a 12.4 million euros deficit in 2015, the Holy See has made significant progress in carrying out its economic reform.

Despite 2015 deficit, progress made in implementing reforms, Vatican says

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VATICAN CITY – Although the Holy See reported a deficit of 12.4 million euros ($17.6 million) in 2015, significant progress has been made in the budgeting process and carrying out economic reform, the Vatican said.

People hold images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and photos of their family members, who they say were killed because of their alleged involvement in illegal drugs, during a March 2 protest and march in memory of the victims in Manila, Philippines.

The Filipino Catholic Church is resisting the brutal drug war

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MANILA, Philippines – Caught in the throes of a brutal war on drugs, the people of the Philippines are increasingly looking to the Catholic Church to provide refuge and resistance.

A Christian family who fled from violence in Mosul, Iraq, sit in the room of a church in 2014 in Amman, Jordan. Catholic leaders are describing situations for Iraqi Christian refugees as 'critical and dangerous.'

Situation for Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan 'critical and dangerous'

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AL-UM-KUNDUN, Jordan – Catholic leaders have expressed concern for tens of thousands of Iraqi Christian refugees sheltering in Jordan as access to international aid tightens with crises deepening in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Christians chant anti-terrorism slogans outside the Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex Dec. 11 after an explosion inside the complex in Cairo.

Egypt's Christians are being driven out – will the world notice?

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CAIRO, Egypt – A spike in attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, spurred by a video threat from ISIS, has drawn the prayers and concern of advocates, who are urging global leaders to take notice.

The Father Garralda-Horizontes Abiertos Foundation has had such impact on inmates that a group of them have donated money to help the needy at Christmas.

This Spanish prison ministry is helping rehabilitate inmates

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MADRID, Spain – The prison ministry founded by a Spanish Jesuit in the 1960s has had such fruits as a group of inmates donating their own money to help the needy at Christmas, according to the head of the foundation.

Father Lawrence Cross stands in front of the iconostasis in the Russian Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda. A global congress of Russian Catholics meeting in Italy in June and organized by Father Cross hopes to revive their tiny church as an exarchate.

Russian Catholics hope for a new springtime for small Byzantine church

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MELBOURNE, Australia – One of the smallest Eastern Catholic churches in the world, the Russian Catholic Church, faces some big issues, including its survival.

U.S. President Donald Trump chats with students from St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Fla., March 3. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also joined the president.

Trump visits Catholic school in Florida to show school choice support

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ORLANDO, Fla. – President Donald Trump visited St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando March 3 to show his support for school choice.

Family members in Tijuana, Mexico, separated by deportation, visit through the U.S.-Mexico border fence Oct. 16, 2016. U.S. bishops have varying opinions on providing sanctuary.

U.S. bishops' stances vary on sanctuary for immigrants facing deportation

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WASHINGTON – The bishop of Sacramento, California, said Catholic churches in the diocese could offer sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation, while the archbishop of Washington cautioned that offering sanctuary does not legally guarantee protection if federal agents come calling.

Displaced Egyptian Christian families, who used to live in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, sit near their belongings after arriving Feb. 24 at a church in Ismailia. Catholic churches in Ismailia, with help from Caritas, have helped Coptic Orthodox fleeing Islamic State attacks in North Sinai.

Egyptian priest praises Muslim support of threatened Christians

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OXFORD, England – A spokesman for Egypt's Catholic Church praised local Muslims for helping embattled Christians after a series of Islamic State attacks in Sinai.

The entrance to the site of a burial site at the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland is seen in this 2014 file photo. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is probing how unmarried mothers and their babies were treated between 1922 and 1998 at 18 state-regulated institutions, many of them run by religious orders.

Irish commission finds human remains at former church-run home

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DUBLIN – The commission set up to investigate the treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies in Irish care homes during the 20th century says it has found "significant" human remains at the site of a former home in western Ireland.

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