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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?"

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, leads a prayer during an ecumenical service at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington Sept. 9.

Follow the money: Cardinal says ISIS conflict is not about religion

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WASHINGTON - The conflict in which Islamic State fighters are driving out Christians and other minorities must not be seen as a war between Islam and Christianity, said the head of the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Churches.

Steven Sotloff (right), the second American journalist reportedly beheaded by Islamic State extremists, is pictured in a 2010 photo. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, sent a letter on behalf of Pope Francis to express the pontiff's condolences to the Sotloff family for the loss of their son.

Pope Francis sends condolences to family of second journalist slain by ISIS

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MIAMI - Pope Francis sent a letter of condolence to the family a Steven Sotloff, the second U.S. journalist slain this summer by ISIS, also known as Islamic State.

Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland, leaves a meeting of cardinals in the synod hall at the Vatican in this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo. Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Brady Sept. 8. Cardinal Brady had served as archbishop of Armagh since 1996 and submitted his resignation upon reaching the reached the mandatory age of 75.

Sex abuse victims: Irish cardinal’s resignation not soon enough

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - For years, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, refused to heed repeated calls for him to step down over alleged cover-ups of sexual abuse of children by clergy.

Pope Francis mourns murder of three missionary sisters in Burundi

Pope Francis mourns murder of three missionary sisters in Burundi

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis mourned the deaths of three Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary, who were murdered in two separate attacks in their residence in Burundi.

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