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News/International

Filipinos are seen on Manicani Island in this 2013 file photo. Residents of the small island in the central Philippines celebrated a victory Aug. 18 after the government ordered a mining company to stop removing nickel ore stockpiles from their village.

Philippine villagers claim victory over nickel mining firm

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MANILA, Philippines – Residents of a small island in the central Philippines hailed a government order that stopped one of the country's largest mining firms from removing nickel ore stockpiles from their village.

Bangladeshi peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital Kinshasa, May 2013. An official from the country's bishops' conference says he's optimistic about resuming peace talks

Congolese bishops optimistic about offer to mediate peace talks

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OXFORD, England – An official of the Congolese bishops' conference said he is optimistic that the government and opposition will work with them to restart peace talks.

Pope Francis exchanges gifts with French President Francois Hollande at the Vatican Aug. 17.

French president meets Pope to thank him after terrorist attacks

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican with French President Francois Hollande, who said he felt it necessary to thank the Pope in person for his words after the slaying of a French priest and other terrorist attacks in France.

A crowd of community members pray next to the coffins as they gather for the funeral service of Imam Maulama Akonjee in the Queens borough of New York City, on August 15, 2016.

Police, Muslims seek answers after cleric and associate killed in Queens

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NEW YORK – Police were questioning a possible suspect in the double homicide of a popular imam and his associate in Queens but there was still no clear motive even as the shocking daylight murders were becoming a flashpoint in the national debate over anti-Islamic rhetoric.

Women are seen near a market in Praia, Cape Verde, in this 2004 file photo. The African nation of half a million people has 7,500 confirmed cases of the Zika virus, but health officials suspect more cases are unreported.

Catholic Relief uses lessons learned from Ebola to fight Zika in Cape Verde

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The dust had hardly settled on Catholic Relief Services' work fighting the world's worst Ebola outbreak before the team was putting together a response to the Zika virus in the West African island nation of Cape Verde.

Father Gaston Ndaleghana Mumbere poses for a photo in Quebec City Aug. 10. In his recently published book, this 35-year-old Assumptionist priest describes the violence that plagues his home country.

For Congolese priest, Mary's Assumption represents hope for tomorrow

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QUEBEC CITY – For Father Gaston Ndaleghana Mumbere, the feast of the Assumption represents his hope for better tomorrows for Congo.

A gas station is seen Aug. 15 after it was burned down following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee the previous day.

Violence in Milwaukee unrest 'a self-inflicted wound,' says archbishop

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MILWAUKEE – Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee called the violence that broke out in the city as part of protests over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man "a self-inflicted wound."

Richard Rossi and his 4-year-old great-grandson Justice wade through water Aug. 15 after their home flooded in St. Amant, La.

Louisiana bishop comforts evacuees at shelters; flooding displaces 20,000

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BATON ROUGE, La. – As Louisiana's governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state Aug. 14, Catholic churches in the Baton Rouge Diocese called for volunteers to help those displaced by extreme flooding and asked flood victims what assistance they needed.

Pope Francis pictured during a jubilee audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 30. Pope Francis has been paying for trips and food for homeless people in Rome to go to the beach.

Pope Francis treats homeless to pizza and swim at the beach

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ROME – As millions of people around the world enjoy their annual summer vacation, Pope Francis is providing a beach escape for those who cannot afford it.

Catholic pilgrims are regularly overcome with emotion at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolas, as this man was while visiting it on July 25, 2016, in San Nicolas de Arroyos, Argentina.

Church confirms Argentine apparitions as ‘supernatural’

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SAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina – Once a month, thousands of devout Catholics descend on this small industrial city, where a woman with little education but great faith said she began seeing visions of the Virgin Mary on Sept. 25, 1983.

People gather to remember all victims of police violence during a rally outside City Hall in Baltimore July 27. Baltimore's archbishop William E. Lori called a recently released report by the U.S. Department of Justice on the systemic abuses by the city's police "sobering and distressing."

Archbishop calls report on systemic abuses by Baltimore police 'sobering and distressing'

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BALTIMORE – The same day a federal Department of Justice report cataloging systemic abuses by Baltimore's police was issued, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore called that report "sobering and distressing."

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