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News/International

A photo of Rosaline Costa from 20016. Costa, a Catholic, and the editor of Hotline Bangladesh for over 30 years, fled her native country in July amid harassment and threats.

Bangladeshi Catholic editor flees country amid harassment, threats

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WASHINGTON – Rosaline Costa heard people tell her "be careful" so often she decided that she had to flee her native Bangladesh for the United States to stay alive.

Pope Francis waves as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 8. The Pope "snuck" out of the Vatican to two small towns near Rieti, Italy, on August 9.

Pope pays 'private' visit to convents outside Rome

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis "snuck" out of the Vatican Aug. 9 for a drive, a walk in the woods and lunch with an Italian bishop at a small convent.

Filipinos carry the coffin of an alleged drug dealer at Manila North Cemetery Aug. 7. Catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines that have come with Duterte's war on drugs.

Philippine church leaders feel powerless to stop extrajudicial killings

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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and Brian d'Arcy James star in a scene from the movie "Spotlight." A Brazilian priest mentioned in the movie committed suicide while in custody Aug. 7.

Brazilian priest cited in "Spotlight" commits suicide in prison

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RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian priest mentioned in Spotlight, the Oscar-winning film about clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston, committed suicide Aug. 7 in his cell.

Iraqi Christian refugees holds banners protesting the U.N. refugee services during an Aug. 8 prayer service in Fuheis, Jordan. They are divided on whether they will be able to return home even after the Islamic State is driven out of their homeland.

Islamic State might get ousted, but Christians still worry about safety

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AINKAWA, Iraq – Iraqi Christians appear divided about whether they will be able to return home after Islamic State militants are flushed out of the battle-scarred Ninevah Plains region. They say their safety must be guaranteed at all costs.

Irish Bishop Edward Daly, depicted on the far right of a mural commemorating the events of Bloody Sunday, became prominent in a photograph of him holding out a bloody handkerchief when British soldiers opened fired on a civilian protest march in Derry, Northern Ireland, January 30, 1972.

Irish Bishop Edward Daly, Bloody Sunday priest, dies at 82

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DUBLIN – Bishop Edward Daly of Derry, known for his tireless advocacy for peace and reconciliation during decades of sectarian tension in Northern Ireland, died in a hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Aug. 8.

A woman gestures as residents shovel to recover belongings from their house damaged after Tropical Storm Earl caused a mudslide in Huauchinango, Mexico, Aug. 7. Forty people were killed.

Priests send prayers, support for Mexican mudslide victims

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MEXICO CITY – A priest in the Mexican state of Puebla said parish and archdiocesan officials are attempting to assess the needs of isolated and impoverished pockets of eastern Mexico, which were hit hard with heavy rains and mudslides, leaving at least 40 dead and dozens of settlements incommunicado.

Visitors walk through the Wynwood arts district of Miami Aug. 3. During the first week of August, the Florida Department of Health reported its 16th case of locally transmitted Zika virus in a one-square-mile area of Miami north of downtown, bringing the total number of people infected in the mosquito-borne outbreak to at least 16

Florida races to stem Zika spread, offer pregnant women testing

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Florida residents, officials and health care leaders have their hands full this summer containing the Zika virus outbreak, which prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue its first domestic travel advisory.

A pregnant woman waits to be seen Jan. 29 at the Women's National Hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador. The growing number of Zika virus cases in the U.S. has inflamed the abortion debate.

New Zika infection fears spark renewed debate on abortion, birth control

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – With a growing number of U.S. travelers returning from abroad with the Zika virus and with several cases of Zika-related microcephaly and birth defects reported in the U.S., the disease has inflamed the abortion debate domestically.

People gather July 25 at a site hit by airstrikes in a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.

Innocent people pay the price for war in Syria, Pope says at Angelus

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VATICAN CITY – Innocent men, women and children are paying the ultimate price in the continuing conflict raging in Syria, especially in Aleppo, where they are caught in the crossfire between rebel and government forces, Pope Francis said.

The new Refugee Olympic Team arrives for the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro Aug. 5. In a personal message addressed to each of the 10 members of the team, Pope Francis wished them success in their events and thanked them for the witness they are giving the world.

Pope praises witness of 10 athletes on Refugee Olympic Team

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VATICAN CITY – In a personal message addressed to each of the 10 members of the new Refugee Olympic Team, Pope Francis wished them success in their events and thanked them for the witness they are giving the world.

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