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A boy walks on the rubble of buildings damaged by missiles fired by Syrian air force fighter jets in Salqin, Syria. On World Refugee Day, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, chairman of the board of U.S. Catholic Relief Services, called upon governments to stop the shipment of arms to the Syrian government and rebel troops.

Syrian refugees need stronger international support

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WASHINGTON - Syrian refugees fleeing their homeland’s civil war deserve support from the international community in the form of food, water, shelter and education, said Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, of Tucson, Ariz., chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services.

Syrian refugees wait to receive aid and rations at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan.

The Church’s response to the crisis in Syria

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The last three years of sponsoring Iraqi refugees has prepared Catholic parishes and religious communities to deal with the next wave coming from the civil war in Syria, said Office for Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto executive director Martin Mark.

A village child growing up in Malawi may grow up richer than his parents. The World Bank claims absolute poverty is on its way down in Africa.

The World Bank’s plan to help end ‘absolute poverty’

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The World Bank is promising the poor will not always be with us.

A woman carrying a child on her back climbs up a hill with other survivors during rescue operations in India’s mountainous Uttarakhand state June 23.

Church groups aid India flood relief

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THRISSUR, INDIA - Church charity groups in India joined security personnel in rescue and relief work for hundreds of thousands of people affected by flash floods and massive landslides in northeastern India’s Uttarakhand state.

People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building in Washington in this photo from late March, when the court heard oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases. The court ruled as unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, in a 5-4 decision issued June 26. In a separate case, the court sent back to lower courts a challenge to California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative barring same-sex marriage.

U.S. bishops view Supreme Court's rulings as 'tragic day for marriage'

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Catholic bishops said the U.S. Supreme Court's June 26 rulings on same-sex marriage were a "tragic day for marriage and our nation."

U.S. President Barack Obama pauses and wipes his forehead as he talks about his vision to reduce carbon pollution June 25 during a speech at Georgetown University in Washington.

Environment advocates consider Obama climate plan a good step forward

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WASHINGTON - Catholics working for environmental justice welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to address climate change, saying it is an ambitious proposal that deserves watching to ensure that it is carried out.

Syrian priest killed during rebel attack on Franciscan convent

Syrian priest killed during rebel attack on Franciscan convent

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VATICAN CITY - A 49-year-old Syrian priest and hermit was killed June 23, apparently when a group of rebels attacked the Franciscan Convent of St. Anthony in Ghassanieh, a village in the north near the Turkish border.

Giovanni Palatucci

Historian: Research could 'downsize' potential saint's wartime heroism

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VATICAN CITY - New research on an Italian candidate for sainthood may "downsize" his importance in saving Jews from the Nazis, but cannot "transform him from a savior of the Jews into a persecutor," said an Italian Jewish historian writing in the Vatican newspaper.

A riot policeman fires his weapon while confronting stone-throwing demonstrators during an anti-government protest in Belem, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River June 20. Leaders of the Brazilian bishops' conference announced their support for peacef ul demonstrations sweeping across South America's largest nation, but declined to say how they might affect World Youth Day activities and the visit of Pope Francis in July.

Brazilian bishops support peaceful protests as World Youth Day nears

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SAO PAULO - Leaders of the Brazilian bishops' conference announced their support for the massive demonstrations sweeping across South America's largest nation, but declined to say how they might affect World Youth Day activities and the visit of Pope Francis in July.

A protester expresses her sentiments during GoldCorp’s 2008 annual shareholder’s meeting in Toronto. Currently, the Archbishop of San Salvador is calling for the international community’s help in closing a Canadian-owned gold mine in Central America which he believes will contaminate El Salvador’s main source of drinking water.

Canadian-owned mine must be closed, says archbishop

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The Archbishop of San Salvador is calling for international support in shutting down a Canadian-owned gold mine just across the border in Guatemala.

Syrian refugees families await treatment at a medical center at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, June 11. At the end of his weekly general audience June 19, Pope Francis called attention to World Refugee Day, focusing particularly on the pli ght of refugee families.

Pope, JRS call attention to the face of Christ in faces of refugees

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ROME - The photos of refugees projected on the facade of Rome's Gesu Church are reminders of what Pope Francis would call the suffering body of Christ today, said the head of Jesuit Refugee Service.

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