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News/International

Archbishop Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, president of the Central African Republic bishops' conference, poses for a photo in Washington Nov. 6.

Central African Republic clergy: Cardinal-designate will continue to unite people

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OXFORD, England – Clergy in the Central African Republic say their first cardinal will continue to work to reunite the country after years of civil war and speak up for the continent's poor.

This is an exterior view of the restored Memorial of Moses on the top of Mount Nebo in Jordan Oct. 10. The memorial has reopened its doors to the public amid festivities after a nearly decade of restoration.

Memorial marking where Moses saw Promised Land reopens in Jordan

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MOUNT NEBO, Jordan – The Memorial of Moses on Mount Nebo has reopened its doors to the public amid festivities, after nearly a decade of restoration.

Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa, introduces guest speaker Al Roker prior to the start of the bishops' dinner in Sioux City Sept. 24.

'Today' show's Roker credits Catholic schools for success in life, career

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Al Roker, weather and feature anchor on NBC's "Today" show, told a Sioux City Catholic audience that he owes his success in life and his career to the Catholic education he received growing up.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses the audience during the 71st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City Oct. 20.

Gloves come off at 71st annual Al Smith Dinner in New York

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NEW YORK – When Donald J. Trump stepped over yet another invisible line of the contentious presidential race Oct. 20, many of the 1,500 people at 71st annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation broke historic precedent to boo him.

Workers slowly expose artifacts at the excavation site in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Slingstones on the ground are evidence of the battle that was waged at the site 2,000 years ago.

Site where Romans breached Jerusalem walls is pinpointed

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JERUSALEM – The site where, nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman army breached the outer walls of ancient Jerusalem before capturing the city and destroying the Second Jewish Temple has been discovered, the Israel Antiquities Authority says.

Residents of La Union, Philippines, take shelter at an evacuation center in San Fernando Oct. 19. Heavy damage was reported to homes and farmland in the northern Philippines Oct. 20 after the strongest storm in three years struck overnight.

Church brings relief to typhoon victims in Philippines

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A day after Typhoon Haima moved out to sea, the Caritas network in the Philippines is swinging into action.

Peshmerga forces advance Oct. 18 to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq. This summer, the U.N. said that as the Mosul crisis evolves, up to 13 million people throughout Iraq may need humanitarian aid by the year's end, far larger than the Syrian crisis.

Once Iraq recaptures Mosul, people will still need help, says archbishop

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WASHINGTON – The military operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group is not the only solution needed to get life back to normal, said Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil.

A hallway is seen in the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Oct. 21. Private areas of the papal villa are now open to the public. Although many popes over the centuries have spent their summers at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Francis has chosen to remain in Rome.

Papal summer residence opens to the public for the first time

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope Francis is throwing open the doors to the papal apartment – including the bedroom where popes have slept – in the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo.

The Rev. Martin Banni with a group of displaced children from the Christian towns in Nineveh in Irbil. Banni spent much time playing with children and telling them stories from the Bible.

Displaced Iraqi Christians await return to Mosul with bated breath

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BAGHDAD – The Rev. Martin Banni, a Chaldean Catholic priest, grabbed the Eucharist, the church’s official documents and a few personal items ahead of the Islamic State fighters’ assault on Karemlash, a town 18 miles southeast of Mosul, two years ago.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pray as they attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner to benefit Catholic charities in New York. October 20, 2016.

Trump draws boos at Al Smith charity dinner

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shared the stage at a charity dinner Thursday night, and while there were moments of civility between the two presidential candidates, at other times there seemed to be more hostility in the air than during the previous night’s debate.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, during the Festival of Families announcement at the Pontifical North American College in Rome on June 23, 2015.

Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput welcomes ‘smaller church’ of holier Catholics

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In a stark prognosis for contemporary Catholicism, a leader of the conservative wing of the U.S. hierarchy has said that “a smaller, lighter church” of fewer but holier believers is preferable to one that promotes inclusion at the expense of traditional orthodoxy.

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