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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, patriarch of Jerusalem, delivers his homily while celebrating Mass in Rome to formally take possession of his titular church, the Church of St. Onuphrius on the Janiculum, May 1, 2024.

Cardinal says church shouldn't expect 'miracle' of peace in Holy Land

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Sudden peace negotiations or an intervention by the United States will not deliver Israelis and Palestinians from the suffering caused by the war in Gaza, a Jerusalem-based cardinal said.

A Caritas Armenia social worker helps a refugee from Nagorno Karabakh, what Armenians call Artsakh, an ancient Armenian homeland.

Artsakh’s Armenians: the forgotten refugee crisis

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As April flowers burst into bloom on the mountain slopes and in the valleys Nagorno Karabakh, there are almost no Armenians there to celebrate the arrival of spring in their ancient homeland.

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop-designate David Waller as the next ordinary -- and the first bishop -- of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a kind of diocese for Catholics of the Anglican tradition in the U.K. His April 29, 2024, appointment follows the Holy Father's acceptance of the resignation submitted by Msgr. Keith Newton, the retiring priest-ordinary and former Anglican bishop, who led the ordinariate since its inception in 2011.

Pope Francis appoints first Catholic bishop with Anglican heritage for UK ordinariate

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Catholics in the United Kingdom that are part of the personal ordinariate have welcomed Pope Francis' appointment of their first bishop -- and the first ordinariate bishop to hail from their Anglican heritage.

Muguette Myers, a child survivor of the Holocaust, was the guest speaker at the annual Shoah commemoration event held in Montreal, April 28, 2024.

Mideast conflict affect felt at Montreal Shoah memorial

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Shockwaves from the Gaza war impacted Christian-Jewish relations seriously enough to hamper a Montreal commemoration of the Shoah this year, say organizers of the 45th annual event held on April 28.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, is seen in an April 2024 photograph with members of the Ukrainian military at the Patriarchal Cathedral complex in Kyiv. The major archbishop and the Ukrainian military officials discussed a range of issues, including Russia's detention of two Ukrainian Catholic priests whose fate remains unknown.

Ukrainian archbishop meets with military officials on missing priests, detained civilians

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The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently met with Ukrainian military officials to discuss a range of issues, including Russia's detention of two Ukrainian Catholic priests whose fate remains unknown.

Residents attempt to salvage property from the ruins of their homes in the Kamuchiri village of Mai Mahiu in central Kenya's Nakuru County April 29, 2024, after heavy flash floods wiped out several homes when a dam burst, following heavy rains.

Kenyan archbishop appeals for humanitarian aid as floods devastate the country

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Amid severe floods, a leading Catholic archbishop in Kenya appealed for humanitarian support to aid thousands of displaced people, as he expressed the church's closeness to the affected populations.

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

As women, children starve, Sudan in desperate need of help, say Catholic aid workers

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Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to save hundreds of thousands of suffering Sudanese people from extreme hunger as the civil war entered its second year.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni applauds Pope Francis during a meeting about families and Italy's declining birthrate May 12, 2023, in Rome.

Italian PM says Pope Francis will join G7 discussion on AI

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that Pope Francis would participate in a G7 "outreach" discussion on artificial intelligence when the leaders of the world's leading industrialized nations countries meet in southern Italy in mid-June.

A tiny home destined for St. Anthony’s Church in Dartmouth, N.S., is hoisted onto a truck.

Halifax shelter program not so temporary

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What began as a short-term project by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth to bring the city’s most vulnerable out of the cold and into temporary shelter remains a project in progress more than two years later. 

The Birth Care Alliance says women have an inherent right to choose who attends their birth and when they access medical services.

Activists seek right to home birth

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COVID-19 and life issues have brought bodily autonomy and the right to accept or refuse medical treatment to the forefront in recent years.

Pope Francis sits down exclusively with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell at the Vatican April 24, 2024, for an interview ahead of the Vatican's inaugural World Children's Day. The CBS interview marked the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network, according to the network.

Pope Francis calls for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, laments plight of children in war in CBS interview

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Pope Francis sat down exclusively with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell on April 24 for an interview ahead of the Vatican's inaugural World Children's Day. The CBS interview marks the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network, according to the network.

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