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Pope Francis presents gifts to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow after the leaders signed a joint declaration during a meeting at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana Feb. 12, 2016.

Pope Francis confirms plans to meet Russian patriarch in Kazakhstan

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Pope Francis said he plans to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in September at an interreligious meeting in Kazakhstan.

People receive bags of relief grains at a camp for the internally displaced people in Adadle, Ethiopia, Jan. 22, 2022.

Development and Peace targeting hunger with matching fund

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In a hungry world, Development and Peace is giving Canadian Catholics a chance to save lives. Using its partnership with Canadian Food Grains Bank, Canada’s Catholic development agency is taking advantage of an Ottawa matching fund to get money and the food it can buy to starving people.

Register takes 19 honours at Catholic press awards 2022

Register takes 19 honours at Catholic press awards 2022

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The Catholic Register has once again been recognized for its fine journalism, taking home 19 honours at the annual Catholic Press Association awards, including a second place for best national newspaper.

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, celebrates a Divine Liturgy with members of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Przemysl, Poland, July 7, 2022.

World's Ukrainian bishops gather in Poland near Ukrainian border

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Prevented by war from meeting in Kyiv, 40 Ukrainian Catholic bishops from around the world met in Poland, less than 10 miles from the border with their homeland, in early July.

The addition to the Jobin family farm house in Barry’s Bay, Ont., has finally been completed, which will allow the family to live together under one roof again. The family had been living in two separate homes, one a rental that allowed the family’s youngest, Marie Ange, below, who was born with brain damage, to live in a temperature-controlled environment.

Family finally reunited under one roof

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After years of being separated due to the health-care needs of their youngest child, the Jobin family is finally reunited under one roof.

A 75th anniversary banner hangs from Ottawa’s Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church.

Welcoming strangers for 75 years and beyond

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Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Ottawa is celebrating 75 years as a parish this year, but its legacy as a welcoming place goes back a lot further.

Fr. J.A. Turcotte, O.M.I.

Priest innocent of abuse still has name shamed

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A Catholic priest falsely accused of sexual assault on children at an Alberta residential school will not get his name returned to the school that bore his legacy since it was founded in 1969.

A Men’s Shed is a place where senior men can come together and work with their hands, improving emotional health.

Cure for men’s loneliness? Take ‘em to the shed

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Catholic Family Services of Simcoe County is targeting loneliness, isolation and depression in senior men through an innovative program that improves their mental health and well-being.

The papal visit statue procession began at the Canadian National Marian Shrine in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que., on June 22.

Marian movement launches papal visit procession

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Dennis Girard hopes the Marian Devotional Movement’s prayerful Papal Visit Pilgrim Statue Procession — and a 54-day Novena launched May 31 —  will bless Pope Francis’ mission of healing and reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

Newman Theological College in Edmonton will be hosting Pope Francis during his tour of Canada July 24-29.

‘A beautiful moment’ for Newman College

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Newman Theological College in Edmonton, has been abuzz for weeks as it prepares to host Pope Francis during his pastoral visit to Canada from July 24-29.

A protest at Vancouver City Hall in 2016 over the lack of enforcement of prostitution legislation.

Prostitution report slammed

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Parliament’s Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights is being blasted by anti-prostitution groups in Canada after releasing a report that concludes Canada’s current anti-prostitution law does more harm than good.

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