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Bishop Kurt R. Burnette of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, N.J., prays as bishops from Eastern Catholic churches in the United States concelebrate a Divine Liturgy at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Feb. 17, 2020. Pope Francis named him apostolic administrator Oct. 20 of the Slovakian Eparchy of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Toronto, which is currently vacant.

U.S. bishop named apostolic administrator of Byzantine eparchy in Canada

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WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has named Bishop Kurt R. Burnette of the Byzantine Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey, to be the apostolic administrator of the Slovakian Eparchy of St. Cyril and Methodius in Toronto.

A woman holds flowers while standing next to a makeshift memorial outside the Armenian embassy in Moscow Oct. 20, 2020. The memorial was for people killed during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenian Orthodox leader warns of possible genocide in disputed territory

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VATICAN CITY -- The patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, said the escalating violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has the potential to become another genocide of the Armenian people.

Trisha Natesan led a drive this summer to collect bars of soap to be donated to the poor through Canadian Food for Children.

Youth cleans up with soap drive

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In previous summers, work shifts at the Canadian Food for Children (CCFC) warehouse in Mississauga, Ont., would be staffed by large parish youth groups.

A protester gestures while a church is set on fire during a demonstration against Chile's government in Santiago Oct. 18, 2020, the one-year anniversary of the protests and riots that rocked the capital in 2019. The current protests occurred a week before a referendum on whether to ditch a dictatorship-era constitution.

Demonstrators burn two churches in Chile on anniversary of protests

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Demonstrators burned two Catholic churches in Chile, where gatherings to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests against inequality descended into chaos.

The Sisters of St. Joseph continue to have a strong influence in Toronto through a number of ministries, including Fontbonne Ministries, the Furniture Bank, Project Hope and more.

Sisters’ ministry lives in the present

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Entering their 170th year of caring for the people of Toronto, the Sisters of St. Joseph want to celebrate their history, of course. But celebrating that ministry has to be about much more than history, said the Sisters of St. Joseph communications director Lisa Tabachnick.

Maxxis Brehm, 4, prays for peace and justice during a rosary led by Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., Oct. 17, 2020.

Archbishop Sample leads rosary, exorcism to bring peace to Portland, Ore.

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Polish Archbishop Edward Janiak of Kalisz, who was accused of negligence after it was revealed in a documentary that he transferred several priests accused of sexually abusing children. Archbishop Janiak is pictured in a file photo.

Polish bishop resigns following accusations of failing to act on abuse

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop accused of negligence after a documentary claimed he repeatedly transferred a priest accused of sexually abusing children.

Dr. Naomi Thulien

Help for homeless youth suffers with COVID-19

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When COVID-19 forced frontline workers to shift their support for homeless youth online, the result was more loneliness, more depression, more drug use, more overdoses and more thoughts of suicide, according to new research from Covenant House, Canada’s largest shelter serving young people.

Technology is having a greater psychological impact on today’s youth through cyberbullying.

Taking aim at cyberbullying

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Kaleed Rasheed has been a champion for cyberbullying awareness and the reason hits close to home for the father of four.

Rosella Kinsohameg with Fr. Doug McCarthy at her grandson Tanner’s First Communion.

The feather and the crucifix

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Rosella Kinoshameg’s Catholic faith and her Indigenous traditions go hand-in-hand as a spiritual leader to the First Nations communities on Manitoulin Island.

The Holy Spirit inlay in the carpet at St. Brigid’s Church reproduces a tile inlay beneath, said Fr. Carlos Augusta Sierra Tobon.

St. Brigid’s ready for vibrant second century

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Fr. Carlos Augusto Sierra Tobon says the 100th anniversary of St. Brigid’s Catholic Church will honour “the past, present and future” of this place of worship nestled in Toronto’s Danforth Village on Wolverleigh Boulevard.

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