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Dejected supporters from the "Yes" Campaign walk through George Square in Glasgow, Scotland, early Sept. 19. Scotland's First Minister Alec Salmond conceded defeat the same day over his bid to win independence and demanded the British government rapidly meet its promise of more powers for Edinburgh.

Scot bishops hope Catholics join public debate after independence vote

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MANCHESTER, England - The Catholic bishops of Scotland said they accept the results of referendum in which Scot voters rejected independence.

The Rev. Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland’s former first minister and former Democratic Unionist Party leader, died Sept. 12 at age 88. He is pictured in a 2007 photo.

Paisley ultimately endorsed peace

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DUBLIN - Irish Cardinal Sean Brady has paid tribute to a controversial Protestant firebrand-turned-peacemaker who once heckled St. John Paul II as the “antichrist.”

Archbishop Bernardito Auza

Nuncio: World won't be more 'genuinely' human unless all work for peace

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NEW YORK - Peace is never achieved once and for all, but is the fruit of a daily quest for greater justice and respect for one another, the new papal nuncio to the United Nations said Sept. 15.

Hilda Simon prepares her granddaughter, Annie, 10, for school in 2011 at a village in Chikwawa, Malawi. With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise youn ger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.

Southern Africa: AIDS has left families headed by kids, grandparents

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise younger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.

With the assistance of Development and Peace, government agencies and other aid organizations, a massive rebuilding effort is underway in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the nation 10 months ago.

Canadian charities help Filipinos rebuild

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Every one of the $13 million Development and Peace raised last year to help Filipinos left homeless by the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall has a job to do. Thousands of Filipino families are still living in tents, in the beached hulks of ships Typhoon Haiyan left stranded on the streets of Tacloban City and in elementary schools where Filipino families first found shelter from the storm 10 months ago.

A street in the Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bukavu, where the three nuns were laid to rest.

Brutally murdered nuns laid to rest in the Congo as crime investigation continues

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Three elderly Italian nuns murdered in Burundi were laid to rest Thursday (Sept. 11) in a Xaverian cemetery in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened calls for action about their death.

UN needs strike force says Canadian peace advocate

UN needs strike force says Canadian peace advocate

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The United Nations should create a permanent, rapid-response peacekeeping force for rapid intervention in emergencies, said Canada’s elder statesman of peace and disarmament.

Melania Itto, program manager of Radio Bakhita, hosts the morning "Juba Sunrise" program in the station's studio in Juba, Southern Sudan. Radio Bakhita has been silent since Aug. 16 when South Sudan’s National Security Service stormed into the station and arrested its news editor.

Catholic radio forced off air

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A Catholic Radio station in South Sudan that the Canadian bishops’ development agency hopes to support has been shut down for reporting both sides of a story.

Two Christian women from Qaraqosh, Iraq, who were forced to flee advancing Islamic State militants in Mosul, wait in front of tents outside St. Joseph Shrine near Irbil, Iraq, Sept. 10. Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of Lebanon and Syria f or the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, is still shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil.

'It pierced my heart like a knife,' nun says after visit to Iraqis

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BEIRUT - Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria, is still shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil, Iraq.

This aerial view taken Sept. 10 shows houses submerged by floodwater in Srinagar, India. While nearly 250 people have perished in the floods following rains in the Kashmir Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas, more than 700,000 people have been maroo ned on rooftops, trees and hills since Sept. 7.

Indian church appeals for support for relief work in flood-hit Kashmir

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CHENNAI, India - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India has appealed to Catholics to mobilize funds and materials to augment church relief work in northern Jammu and Kashmir state, devastated by floods.

Father Gervan Menezes and Bishop David R. Choby of Nashville, Tenn., talk with seminarian William Carmona in his intensive care room at Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio Sept. 7. The bishop was preparing to ordain Carmona, gravely ill wit h cancer, as a transitional deacon and a priest for the Nashville Diocese.

Seminarian granted his deathbed wish to be ordained

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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - As William Carmona lay gravely ill in a San Antonio hospital bed, he repeatedly questioned his classmates from nearby Assumption Seminary: "Where is Bishop Choby?" "When will he get here?" And finally: "How many more hours until he ordains me?"

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