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Syriac Catholics from St. Joseph’s Church in Mississauga, Ont., bring the offertory gifts to the altar at a Mass marking World Day of Migrants and Refugees Sept. 25.

Migrants, refugees praised for strength, courage

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Rookie Member of Parliament Rechie Valdez had trouble holding back her tears as she celebrated the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees with the Syriac Catholic community at St. Joseph’s Church in Mississauga, Ont., where she recalled her parents’ journey from the Philippines to Zambia and then on to a new life in Canada.

French president Emmanuel Macron.

Euthanasia would upset France’s ethical ‘balance,’ bishops say

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France’s Catholic bishops warned President Emmanuel Macron’s government that “immoral legislation” to allow euthanasia risked overturning the country’s “ethical equilibrium.”

A man walks through the debris of destroyed homes along the coastline in Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland, Sept. 25, 2022. Canadian troops are being sent to assist the recovery from the devastation from Fiona, which hit the country's Atlantic provinces as a post-tropical storm and swept away houses, stripped off roofs and knocked out power.

Churches appear to have escaped Fiona’s wrath

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Damage inflicted to church properties throughout the Maritimes by post-tropical storm Fiona has yet to be tabulated, but it seems for the most part Catholic Church property has escaped relatively unscathed after one of the strongest weather systems to ever hit Atlantic Canada. 

A man casts his ballot during a referendum in the city of Melitopol, Ukraine, Sept. 26, 2022.

Ukraine religious leaders call for return of POWS, criticize 'referendums'

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Religious leaders in Ukraine called for safe return of prisoners of war, civilian hostages and all those who were forcibly taken to Russia.

Andrew Moss, coordinator of Calgary’s Feed the Hungry program, addresses an audience at St. Mary’s Cathedral detailing the re-launch of the program that was put on hold by the pandemic.

Feed the Hungry transitions out of pandemic

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Calgary’s Feed the Hungry program will make its return to sit-down meals for those in need beginning Thanksgiving weekend, more than two years after it was turned on its head by the COVID-19 pandemic.

St. Jean de Brebeuf and Joseph Chiwatenhwa are depicted in a stain-glass window at the Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ont.

Martyrs' Shrine opens arms, gates to Indigenous

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When the Martyrs’ Shrine community in Midland, Ont. — Jesuits and benefactors — gets together Sept. 24 to celebrate Mass with retired Ottawa Archbishop Terence Prendergast, it will celebrate St. Jean de Brebeuf and his companions in a whole new context.

Russian police officers detain a woman during an unsanctioned rally in Moscow protesting President Vladimir Putin's announced mobilization of reservists in the Russia-Ukraine war Sept. 21, 2022.

Russian priest says Catholics, including clerics, fear conscription

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A senior Russian priest dismissed President Vladimir Putin's threats of nuclear war as "just words," but said many young Catholics now fear being forcibly conscripted with their priests to join the war against Ukraine.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in New York City Sept. 22, 2022.

Cardinal Parolin, Russian foreign minister meet at U.N.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Vatican News reported.
People receive bags of relief grains at a camp for the internally displaced people in Adadle, Ethiopia.

Ethiopians starve in forgotten war

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“Seeing video footage of hungry families in agony breaks one’s heart,” Argaw Fantu writes in an e-mail from his home base in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

Fra’ John T. Dunlap

Change allows Knights of Malta to better serve poor

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After years of internal struggle and uncertainty, the Knights of Malta have a new papal mandate, a new constitution, a new legal code and a Canadian lawyer seeing the whole process to completion at an extraordinary general chapter of the sovereign lay religious order in the new year.

Fr. Gary Franken has been named as the new bishop of St. Paul, Alta.

Vancouver vicar general named new Bishop of St. Paul diocese

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Pope Francis has named the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s vicar general, Fr. Gary Franken, as the new Bishop of St. Paul, Alta.

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