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The motifs in the Portico chronicle Antezana’s successful protest against airport expansion that would have demolished the church.

How the earthly and divine came together on the walls of a Basque church

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ANTEZANA DE FORONDA, Spain – The Iglesia de San Miguel is the pride of this tiny town in Spain’s Basque Country. Yet the 16th-century church, with its spectacular wooden carvings and baroque altarpiece, had fallen on hard times.

Julia Martinez of Momostenango, Guatemala, shows off a radish grown in the training garden of the SEGAMIL food security project sponsored by CRS, Caritas San Marcus and a local nongovernmental organization Oct. 7.

Program helps Guatemalans fight child malnutrition with gardens, hygiene

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MOMOSTENANGO, Guatemala – As a 12-year-old working as a farm laborer, Elvia Abac vowed that when she grew up, her children would never go hungry the way she was.

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Wilmington, Ohio, Nov. 4. Trump won the presidency in the Nov. 8 elections.

U.S. bishops are trying to figure out how to deal with post-election animus

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BALTIMORE – Like many others, the U.S. Catholic bishops are trying to figure out how to deal with a president-elect who's different from anyone they've dealt with in the past and one involved in one of the most rancorous elections in modern times.

Cardinal-designate Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, is seen in this undated photo. He will be elevated in a consistory Nov. 19.

New Venezuelan cardinal says country's crisis prompted red hat

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ROME - Venezuelan Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo is one of the Pope's picks from the peripheries who will get a red hat this weekend, which the new cardinal-elect says is a sign of the Vatican's concern for the people amid the country’s ongoing crisis.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s family won a court decision to allow them to move his remains back to the Diocese of Peoria.

New York court rules Archbishop Sheen's remains should be transferred to Peoria

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PEORIA, Ill. – The Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled Nov. 17 in favor of the family of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen regarding their request to allow the transfer of the sainthood candidate's remains to Peoria, where he was raised and ordained a priest.

former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator ousted in the 1986 People Power revolution, was secretly given military honors before burial at the Heroes' Cemetery.

Philippine Catholic leaders outraged by hero's burial for former dictator Marcos

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MANILA, Philippines – As protests erupted, church leaders criticized the secret hero's burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator ousted in the 1986 People Power revolution.

Landslides block State Highway One near Kaikoura, New Zealand, on Nov. 15, a day after a strong earthquake shook the area.

New Zealand priests find ways to be with people affected by quake

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – The seaside town of Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island might have had its road and rail links with the outside world cut off after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, but its Catholic priest found a way to get into the town to celebrate Sunday Mass and be with his people.

Pope Francis criticized the ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria in a meeting with the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Nov. 17.

There is no justification for killing innocent people in Iraq and Syria, Pope says

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VATICAN CITY – In a meeting with the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Thursday, Pope Francis criticized ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria, saying no motive can justify or allow the killing of innocent people, especially children.

Syrians check a school Oct. 27 that was bombed a day earlier in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Syria.

Power struggle in Syria is 'workshop of cruelty,' Pope says

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VATICAN CITY – Where there is no tenderness, there is cruelty and what is unfolding in Syria is a veritable "workshop of cruelty," Pope Francis told governing members of Caritas Internationalis.

The newly elected vice president of the U.S. bishops' conference, Archbishop Jose Gómez, will be a great resource on immigraiton, says Archbishop Silvano Tomasi.

U.S. bishops' new vice president a great resource on immigration, says Vatican official

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ROME - Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said the election of Archbishop Jose Gómez as vice president of the U.S. bishop’s conference will serve as a great resource on immigration, especially in wake of the presidential election of Donald Trump – known for his “fiery” comments on the issue.

In a second vote, the District of Columbia City Council approved assisted suicide for terminally ill patients Nov. 15

Washington D.C. City Council approves assisted suicide measure in second vote

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WASHINGTON – The District of Columbia City Council Nov. 15 approved a bill allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives.

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