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A demonstrator in support of the federal contraceptive mandate chants outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in reaction to Hobby Lobby ruling June 30. In separate action, the court kicked back to the lower courts half a dozen cases involving Catho lic-owned businesses' disagreements over health care law.

Groups lash out at new opt-out rules for HHS mandate

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WASHINGTON - Pro-life groups that have battled with the federal government since the first rules were issued on contraceptive coverage in 2012 derided the government's latest rules allowing religious institutions -- and potentially some for-profit companies -- to opt out of the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. journalist James Foley is seen during a 2011 press conference in Boston. Pope Francis phoned Foley's bereaved family after he was killed by Islamic State militants in Syria.

Slain journalist Foley lauded for living his faith through his reporting

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ROCHESTER, N.H. - Slain journalist James Foley, who sent images and copy from different war zones, was described as living his faith through his work.

Liberian police in protective clothing control residents of Monrovia's West Point neighborhood waiting for food rations to be handed out Aug. 21. Church workers say hunger and panic are major problems in Liberia and Sierra Leone as neighborhoods are seal ed off in an effort to curb the spread of Ebola.

Panic, hunger spread among quarantined West Africans in Ebola areas

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Hunger and panic are spreading among people unable to work because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, say church workers in West Africa.

Protesters in Stuttgart, Germany, rally during an Aug. 23 demonstration initiated by the Syrian Orthodox Church in solidarity with religious minorities threatened in Northern Iraq and throughout the Middle East. The Franciscan custos of the Holy Land sai d force alone cannot stop "religious cleansing" in the Middle East.

Force alone cannot stop 'religious cleansing' in Mideast, custos says

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VATICAN CITY - Although Christians, Muslims and Jews have struggled for hundreds of years to live peacefully alongside each other in the Middle East, "we have never seen the kind of 'religious cleansing' we are witnessing today," said the head of the region's Franciscans.

Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond, a native of Philadelphia who has lived in South Korea since 1960, is pictured waiting to meet Pope Francis during the pope's meeting with the bishops of Korea in Seoul Aug. 14. Father Hammond said that since 1995 he has m ade 51 trips into North Korea to take humanitarian assistance.

U.S. missionary in North Korea a silent 'apostle of peace'

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SEOUL, South Korea - Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, no Catholic priest has resided in the North of this divided peninsula, where autonomous religious activity is effectively forbidden. And no enemy of the communist regime there is more detested or fiercely denounced than the United States.

After evangelical virgin guys marry, then what?

After evangelical virgin guys marry, then what?

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For decades, evangelical leaders have touted “virginity pledges” as a way for teens and young adults to “save themselves for marriage.”

At Liberty University, big goals — and big money — for sports

At Liberty University, big goals — and big money — for sports

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LYNCHBURG, Va. - In December 2011, Turner Gill sat in the plush presidential suite atop Liberty University’s football stadium, on the verge of accepting the school’s head coaching job.

People displaced by violence stand outside their tent at St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Ankawa, Iraq, Aug. 14. A typical day for many Iraqi Christians encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against despe ration, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear.

Displaced Iraqis face daily struggle against desperation, boredom

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MANCHESTER, England - A typical day for many Iraqi Christians encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against desperation, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear.

Ukrainian soldiers march along a street during a rehearsal for the Independence Day parade in Kiev Aug. 20. The parade will take place Aug. 24.

As battles rage, Catholics in Ukraine request Independence Day prayers

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VATICAN CITY - As Ukrainians prepared to mark their Aug. 24 Independence Day under the cloud of fierce fighting in the East, Catholic leaders condemned the threat to Ukraine's territorial integrity and prayed for a speedy end to the hostilities.

U.S. Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, pictured in a 2004 photo, died Aug. 20 at age 86 at Providence Park Hospital in Novi, Mich. Cardinal Szoka was archbishop of Detroit from 1981 until 1990, when he was brought to the Vatican to oversee the city state's gover nment under St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. He retired in 2006.

Cardinal Szoka, former Detroit archbishop and Vatican official, dies

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DETROIT - Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, who rose from poor beginnings to reach the highest levels of service to the Church, died Aug. 20 at Providence Park Hospital in Novi. The cardinal, who was 86, died of natural causes.

U.S. journalist James Foley speaks at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., after being released from imprisonment in Libya in 2011. Foley, a freelance war correspondent from New Hampshire and a Marquette University alu m, was killed at the hands of the Islamic State militant group.

Pope Francis delivers condolences to slain U.S. journalist's family

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Updated 08/22/14

NEW YORK - Pope Francis phoned the bereaved family of James Foley, a U.S. journalist killed by Islamic State militants in Syria.

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