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News/International

A young man waves the Vatican and Palestinian flags before Pope Francis celebrates Mass May 25 in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank.

New Palestinian saints highlight region’s beleaguered Christians

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will bestow sainthood on two Palestinian nuns May 17, a move that’s being seen as giving hope to the conflict-wracked Middle East and shining the spotlight on the plight of Christians in the region.

Subu Pariyar and his children sit inside a makeshift shelter May 9 on top of Baretol mountain in Nepal. Their home was destroyed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake April 25.

Church workers reach out to quake victims in remote Himalayan villages

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NAMJUNG, Nepal - "Sir, because of luck, we all survived. But, we may die of hunger," Mithuram Pariyar said when a church relief team arrived after a four-hour drive from Kathmandu.

Pope Francis greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as Israeli President Shimon Peres looks on during an invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens June 8, 2014.

Israel downplays media flurry over Vatican agreement with Palestine

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JERUSALEM - Israel is downplaying the recent media flurry over reports the Vatican and Palestinian representatives have finalized the text of a formal agreement recognizing freedom of religion in the "State of Palestine" and outlining the rights and obligations of the Catholic Church, its agencies and its personnel in the territory.

Graziana Pistorio, a volunteer, prepares food donated by local bakeries at the Caritas centre in Catania, Sicily.

Italians help flood of refugees in Francis’ vision of ‘a Church for the poor’

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CATANIA, Italy - Sitting outside the central train station here in eastern Sicily, a 16-year-old who would only give his name as “Simon” hunched his knees up to his chest and wrapped himself up into a ball. With little spoken English, the teenager from Eritrea has taken to miming the way he travelled across the Mediterranean.

Syrian citizens clear streets in late April after shelling in Aleppo. Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo says Christians are losing hope, but not faith, as fighting continues.

Exhaustion, no hope: Bishop says life in Syria needs 'attitude of faith'

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ROME - Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, and his people are exhausted.

People walk outside the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in late April in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pope Francis will meet with priests, religious and seminarians at the capital's cathedral during his June 6 trip to Sarajevo.

Periphery pope: Bosnia trip aims to build bridges in divided nation

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis' concern for those suffering on the margins and for small Catholic communities that have kept the faith alive through war or repression will take him to Bosnia-Herzegovina in early June.

Israeli President Shimon Peres, Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend an invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens June 8, 2014.

Vatican decision to recognize Palestine upsets Israeli government, Jewish advocacy groups

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JERUSALEM - The Vatican’s decision to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state has angered Israeli officials.

Once Pope Francis knows U.S. capitalism he will love it, says Catholic theologian-economist

Once Pope Francis knows U.S. capitalism he will love it, says Catholic theologian-economist

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NEW YORK - Fr. Martin Schlag is a trained economist as well as a Catholic moral theologian, and when he first read some of Pope Francis’ powerful critiques of the current free market system he had the same thought a lot of Americans did: “Just horrible.”

Nepalese military personnel remove debris in Kathmandu, Nepal, in search for survivors after an earthquake struck May 12. The magnitude-7.3 quake hit a remote mountainous region of Nepal that day, killing at least 19 people, triggering landslides and top pling buildings less than three weeks after the country was hit by its worst quake in decades.

When second quake hit, fear filled those waiting for relief materials

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NAMJUNG, Nepal - As the magnitude-7.3 quake hit, screaming and shouting filled the mountain village of Namjung, where approximately 600 people had gathered to collect relief material being distributed by Catholic Relief Services.

German bishops changed the local church's labour law, but said that all church staffers including non-Catholics, would still be expected to work “in the spirit of the church” and “refrain from anti-church behaviour.”

Church groups welcome German bishops' changes to employment rules

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OXFORD, England - Catholic organizations in Germany welcomed changes to their church's employment rules, so staffers will no longer face being fired for remarrying without an annulment or for forming gay unions.

Displaced people who fled areas of conflict waged by Boko Haram militants carry food supplies on their heads April 15 as they walk away from a special prayer service at St. Theresa's Cathedral in Yola, Nigeria.

Report details damage to Nigerian diocese where Boko Haram operates

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MANCHESTER, England - A new report has revealed the scale of suffering of Nigerian Catholics at the hands of Boko Haram militants, with 5,000 Catholics killed in one diocese alone.

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