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Abdullah Kurdi, father of three-year old Alan Kurdi, cries as he leaves a morgue in Mugla, Turkey, Sept. 3.

West complicit in child’s death

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TORONTO - The Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, the most senior Catholic bishop in Syria, says the West must share responsibility for the fate of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler pictured drowned on a Turkish beach on newspaper front pages worldwide.

Israeli Arab Christians demonstrate outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem Sept. 6, to protest government budget cuts to their schools.

Israel's Christian students demonstrate against cuts in school budgets

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JERUSALEM - As Israeli students began their second week of classes Sept. 6, thousands of students and teachers from Christian schools converged in front of the Israeli prime minister's office to protest government budget cuts to their schools.

Israeli Arab Christians hold signs and Vatican flags outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem Sept. 6, to protest government budget cuts to their schools.

Israeli Christian schools strike to protest cuts in public funding

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JERUSALEM - Israel’s 47 Christian schools are entering the second week of an open-ended strike to protest ongoing cuts in government allocations, which they attribute to government discrimination against minority religious groups.

A woman casts her ballot during general elections in Guatemala City Sept. 6. Guatemalans have protested and prayed and achieved unprecedented political change in their country.

Protests, prayer provoke change in Guatemalan government

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GUATEMALA CITY - Mass at the Divine Providence Parish, celebrated shortly after polls closed in this country's recent elections, included intentions. The parishioners prayed for the "people and pastors" of Guatemala, along with the country itself -- where citizens, protesting peacefully for months, forced a president accused of corruption to resign in the days prior to the Sept. 6 vote.

Members of Catholic Young Adult Sports of San Diego pose for a group photo while hiking to Three Sisters Falls in Cleveland National Forest in 2014.

Good sports: Young adults build faith, community through athletics

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SAN DIEGO - A ministry focusing on the excitement and friendship that can come from athletic competition is bringing young people together in faith.

Most U.S. Catholics are fine with nontraditional families

Most U.S. Catholics are fine with nontraditional families

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Families are one great reason why Pope Francis is coming to America.

A nearly 70-metre tall mural featuring an image of Pope Francis nears completion in New York City Sept. 1. The artwork was commissioned by DeSales Media Group, the communications and technology arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Mural of pope looks out over New York's Madison Square Garden Mass site

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NEW YORK - New Yorkers and tourists in midtown Manhattan have been gazing up at a smiling Pope Francis at one of New York's busiest intersections.

A young girl screams as migrants rush to cross into Macedonia at the Macedonian-Greek border Sept. 2. Catholic aid agencies have urged Europeans not to turn against migrants seeking refuge from Syria and other countries, in what media reports describe as the continent's greatest refugee movement since World War II.

Church agencies highlight growing urgency of Europe's refugee crisis

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OXFORD, England - Catholic aid agencies have urged Europeans not to turn against migrants seeking refuge from Syria and other countries, in what media reports describe as the continent's greatest refugee movement since the Second World War.

A member of the Turkish military carries a young migrant Sept. 2, who drowned in a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos, in the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey. A Turkish media report says at least 11 migrants have died and five others are missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized.

Cardinal says Britons seeing human face of suffering migrants

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LONDON - Images of drowned refugees are causing the British people to cry out for a more generous response to the migrant crisis engulfing Europe, said an English cardinal.

A man holds Cuba's flag in the crowd as Pope Francis arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this photo dated May 27, 2015. Bishop Wilfredo Pino Estevez said that Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba is a sign of his closeness to the nation's people at a time they "breathe the air of hope" that relations with the United States will improve

Pope's visit comes at time of hope for Cubans

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Pope Francis' visit to Cuba is a sign of his closeness to the nation's people at a time they "breathe the air of hope" that relations with the United States will improve, said Bishop Wilfredo Pino Estevez of Guantanamo-Baracoa.

Workers from various trade unions shout slogans during an anti-government protest rally, organized as part of a nationwide strike, in Mumbai, India, Sept. 2.

Church supports Indians on nationwide strike

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NEW DELHI - The Catholic Church in India supported some 150 million workers on a nationwide strike that shut down factories, banks, traffic and government offices across India Sept. 2.

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