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Palestinians run following what police said was an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City July 9. The Israeli army intensified its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, striking Hamas sites and killing dozens of people in a military operation it says is aimed at quelling rocket fire against Israel.

Holy Land bishops criticize 'collective punishment' of Palestinians

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JERUSALEM - Catholic leaders in the Holy Land called for an end to the cycle of violence and criticized Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and its collective punishment of Palestinians.

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during clashes with the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the city of Ramadi June 19. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako called the current situation in Iraq “perhaps the darkest and most difficult period in (the Church’s) recent history.”

Iraq facing perhaps its 'darkest and most difficult period,' says patriarch

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AMMAN, Jordan - The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad called the current situation in his country "perhaps the darkest and most difficult period in (the Church's) recent history."

Msgr. Nunzio Galantino

Religious procession past Mafia boss’ home irks Italy’s Catholic clergy

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ROME - Only two weeks after Pope Francis announced he was excommunicating the Mafia, a religious procession in southern Italy has provoked uproar after paying homage to a convicted mobster.

Irish abuse victim who met with pope calls it 'huge vindication'

Irish abuse victim who met with pope calls it 'huge vindication'

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DUBLIN - One of the Irish survivors of clerical sexual abuse who met Pope Francis July 7 described the encounter as a "huge vindication" for her.

Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal

Jerusalem patriarch denounces wave of retaliations after teen murders

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JERUSALEM - Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal strongly denounced the increasing wave of violent retaliations following the murders of Israeli and Palestinian teens and called on political and religious leaders to act to calm the atmosphere.

Relatives and friends attend an allegiance ceremony of a Ukrainian army battalion in Kiev before they depart to eastern Ukraine June 23. The Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomed government plans to restore military chaplains to boost soldiers' morale in th e struggle with pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomes plan to add military chaplaincy

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OXFORD, England - The Ukrainian government plans to re-establish military chaplaincies in the country's embattled armed forces, nine months after they were abolished under Soviet rule.

Monsignor Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, the archbishop of Reggio Calabria, has proposed a 10-year ban on naming godparents at baptisms and confirmations as a way to stop Mafia infiltration.

Italian archbishop calls for 10-year ban on godparents to stop Mafia infiltration

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ROME - After a pledge by Pope Francis to “excommunicate” mobsters from the Catholic Church, an archbishop in southern Italy has proposed a 10-year ban on naming godparents at baptisms and confirmations as a way to stop the Mafia from spreading its influence.

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, centre, was named the Vatican representative at the United Nations in New York.

New nuncio to U.N. is Filipino prelate who helped quake-struck Haiti

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis named a Filipino archbishop, who helped lead and rebuild the church in Haiti after its devastating earthquake, as the Vatican representative at the United Nations in New York.

Iraqi refugees line up to receive free food inside the Khazer camp on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, June 29. Archbishop Bashar Matte Warda of Irbil told Catholic New Service by telephone June 28 the situation was going "from bad to worse."

Chaldean bishop says Iraqis returning home, despite tough conditions

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AMMAN, Jordan - Thousands of Iraqi Christians who fled recent shelling by extremist militants and sought refuge in the neighboring autonomous Kurdistan region are now returning home, said a Catholic archbishop responsible for their care.

Fr. Henri Boulad

Egyptian bishops seek Western aid to launch a Catholic television channel

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TORONTO - The Catholic Church in Egypt is trying to gets its voice out to the nation through a new broadcasting effort. 

Could baptizing children of gay couples become a new battleground?

Could baptizing children of gay couples become a new battleground?

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Despite numerous controversies over dismissing gay Catholics from Church posts and the U.S. hierarchy’s campaign against same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing anything to block gay couples from having their children baptized.

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