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News/International

Displaced Iraqi women sit outside of their tent at a camp for displaced people between the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, Iraq, March 12.

Canadian churches seek more than military response in Iraq, Syria

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Council of Churches in an open letter to Prime Minister Harper has urging a broader response to the crisis in Iraq and Syria than military intervention.

Displaced Assyrians, who fled from the villages around Tel Tamr, Syria, gather March 9 outside the Assyrian Church in Hassakeh as they wait for news about abductees remaining in Islamic State hands.

Protected zone for minorities sought in Iraq, Syria

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AMMAN, Jordan - A call for an area to protect Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq is gathering pace even as April marks the centenary of the 1915 genocide of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians.

Muslims pray during the "All-Out-Peace" campaign in Manila, Philippines, March 6. Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of the Cotabato Archdiocese, whose population is half Muslim, announced the formation of a separate organization, "Friends of Peace," April 6 in Manila.

Philippine cardinal gathers advocates for Muslim autonomous region

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MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine cardinal has pooled a team of peace advocates to help push legislation that would see the creation of an autonomous region in the Muslim-majority section of Mindanao Island.

Protesters against the death penalty hold signs before closing arguments took place April 6 in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in Boston. The bishops of Massachusetts urged against a death sentence for the bombing defendant, reiterating Catholic teaching that says cases where capital punishment is acceptable are practically nonexistent.

Bishops object to death penalty as punishment in Boston bomber case

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BOSTON - As the trial of Boston Marathon bombing defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went to the jury April 6, the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts released a statement reiterating the church's teaching on the death penalty.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Education and Research Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem arrive for a Jan. 22 news conference in Paris to announce new measures aimed at helping schools combat radical Islam, racism and anti-Semitism in reaction to deadly attacks.

A national campaign for ‘Islam a la Francaise’ takes root amid growing radicalization

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YON, France - Sunlight slants across a classroom at the Catholic University of Lyon, where the Bible dominates an evening lecture.

A woman sings during an Easter service in Nairobi, Kenya,i April 5 for the victims of the massacre at Garissa University College. Al-Shabaab militants raided the campus April 2, leaving 148 dead.

Cardinal calls Kenyans to prayer in wake of militants' college attack

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NAIROBI, Kenya - The president of the Kenyan bishops' conference called on Easter worshippers to commit themselves to praying for peace and security in their homeland after militants attacked a college campus days earlier.

A Red Cross worker comforts a mourner as bodies of the students killed in a Thursday (April 2) attack, arrive at the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi. At least 147 people died in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university, as anger grew among local residents over what they say was a government failure to prevent bloodshed.

Kenya religious leaders urge unity in face of Garissa massacre

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NAIROBI, Kenya - As Good Friday services began here, Christian and Muslim leaders preached unity a day after a horrific terrorist attack at Garissa University College left 147 students dead, most of them Christians.

Benedictine Father Michel Van Parys, abbot of the Byzantine-rite Abbey of St. Mary of Grottaferrata, outside of Rome, said the “dimension of spiritual warfare” and the belief in Jesus’ words that “some demons can only be cast out by prayer and fasting” are fundamental to Great Lent.

Preparing for Easter a time of joy for Eastern Catholics

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VATICAN CITY - Joy is not a word people usually associate with strict fasting and penance — unless they are Eastern-rite Catholics.

A sign reading, "This business serves everyone," is seen in the window of a barbershop in downtown Lafayette, Ind., March 31.

Indiana lawmakers agree to amend 'religious freedom' law

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Republican legislative leaders, under growing pressure from inside and outside the state, said April 2 that lawmakers had reached agreement to amend Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” law to ensure it does not discriminate against gay and lesbian customers of Indiana businesses.

A Kenya Defense Forces soldier stops a boy from moving in the direction where attackers were holed up at a university campus in Garissa on Apr. 2, 2015..

At least 147 killed, hundreds rescued in Kenyan university attack that targeted Christians

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NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia's al-Shabab militants shot and killed more than 147 people, wounded dozens of others and held hundreds hostage April 2 at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya.

Catholicos Dinkha IV, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, is greeted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. Patriarch Dinkha died March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. A virus infection and pneumonia were cited as the cause of death; he was 79.

Assyrian patriarch dies; was promoter of unity, served for 39 years

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CHICAGO - Catholicos Dinkha IV, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, died March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. A virus infection and pneumonia were cited as the cause of death. He was 79.

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