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Actor Robin Williams is seen in this 2007 file photo. He was found dead Aug. 11 at his home in Northern California from an apparent suicide, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said.

Robin Williams' death reignites questions about suicide

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - After 35 years of providing counseling and a Catholic outreach to families with a loved one who died by suicide, Fr. Charles Rubey has consulted on more than his share of the resulting funerals or wakes.

Pope Francis celebrates the beatification Mass of Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 martyred companions in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 16.

800,000 watch as Pope Francis moves 124 Korean martyrs closer to sainthood

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SEOUL, South Korea - Pope Francis placed 124 Korean martyrs on the last step toward sainthood in a beatification Mass Aug. 16 that brought elation to the 800,000 people in attendance.

Pope Francis leads the audience in a silent prayer for Korean reunification during a meeting with Asian youth at the Sanctuary of Solmoe in South Korea Aug. 15.

Pope says forgiveness key to reconciling divided Korea

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SEOUL, South Korea - Addressing young people from Korea and other Asian countries on their concerns about the future, Pope Francis said the best hope for reunification of the divided Korean peninsula lay in brotherly love and a spirit of forgiveness.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of the Assumption in World Cup Stadium in Daejeon, South Korea, Aug. 15.

At stadium Mass, pope tells Koreans to resist materialism

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SEOUL, South Korea - Celebrating Mass before some 50,000 people, Pope Francis prayed that Christian values overcome demoralization in economically successful societies.

Two Palestinian sisters walk among the rubble of their destroyed home in the Gaza Strip Aug. 12. A senior Catholic aid official said humanitarians are "trying to pick of the pieces" of Gaza's badly destroyed infrastructure, hoping that the truce between Israel and the militant Hamas will hold.

Aid agencies try to 'pick up the pieces' in Gaza

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AMMAN, Jordan - A senior Catholic aid official said humanitarian agencies are "trying to pick up the pieces" of Gaza's badly destroyed infrastructure, desperately hoping that the declared truce between Israel and the militant Hamas will hold.

A demonstrator marches with crutches outside the U.S. consulate in Irbil, Iraq, Aug. 11. The pope's envoy to the region, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, said people still do not know what will become of terrorized Christians.

Western leaders press governments to help Iraqi minorities

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WASHINGTON - Western leaders pressed their governments to increase humanitarian efforts on behalf of persecuted Christians and other minorities in northern Iraq.

A demonstrator marches with crutches outside the U.S. consulate in Irbil, Iraq, Aug. 11. The pope's envoy to the region, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, said people still do not know what will become of terrorized Christians.

Iraqi minorities need more than material aid, cardinal says

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VATICAN CITY - The one thing Iraqi Church leaders and aid workers, foreign charities and governments cannot do for the displaced and terrorized people of northeastern Iraq is answer their question, "What will become of us?" said Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the Pope's envoy to the region.

Family members of the 304 South Korean ferry victims send Pope Francis a message from Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 13. The pope is scheduled to be in the country for a five-day Asian Youth Day event.

Families of Korean ferry accident appeal to Pope for justice

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SEOUL, South Korea - Families of the victims of the April Sewol ferry accident appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice on the eve of his Aug. 14-18 Korean visit.

U.S. must ‘destroy’ Islamic State, say religious conservatives

U.S. must ‘destroy’ Islamic State, say religious conservatives

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A coalition of more than 50 U.S. religious leaders, led by mostly conservative Catholic, evangelical and Jewish activists, is calling on President Barack Obama to sharply escalate military action against Islamic extremists in Iraq. They say “nothing short of the destruction” of the Islamic State can protect Christians and religious minorities now being subjected to “a campaign of genocide.”

Parishioners from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in Ferguson, Mo., hold a prayer vigil for peace Aug. 11. Protests and riots in the neighborhoods of Ferguson have followed the Aug. 9 shooting and killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a police officer.

Healing after black teen's shooting 'in Jesus' hands'

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FERGUSON, Mo. - Against the backdrop of demonstrations and unrest, some of it violent, that has followed the Aug. 9 killing of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, members of a local Catholic parish did perhaps the only thing they could — they prayed.

Liberian children are encouraged to wash their hands as part of an Ebola sensitization program in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 5. The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has risen to at least 932, the World Health Organizati on said Aug. 6.

Liberian health system suffers from strain of Ebola

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Liberia's health system is in "complete shambles," a Church aid agency said, as the death of a Spanish priest brought to six the number of caregivers at a Catholic-run hospital in the capital of Monrovia who have died of Ebola in August.

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