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People are pictured in mid-June praying at London's Westminster Cathedral. In a private ceremony, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, had their 4-month-old son baptized Sept. 12 in the cathedral's Lady Chapel.

British PM Boris Johnson's son baptized Catholic

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MANCHESTER, England -- A Catholic priest has baptized the infant son of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Empty pews are pictured in a file photo at St. Irenee's Catholic church in the Charlevoix region, near Quebec City. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Quebec government is limiting churches to 50 people inside, 25 in riskier regions.

Quebec faith groups protest restrictions

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MONTREAL -- The Quebec government took religious leaders by surprise by announcing Sept. 20 that the maximum number of people allowed to participate in an event in a place of worship would be lowered from 250 to 50 in all regions of the province, starting Sept. 21.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York Aug. 20, 2020.

Pompeo: Vatican-China agreement endangers Church's moral authority

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VATICAN CITY -- About 10 days before he was expected in Rome, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that the Vatican "endangers its moral authority" by considering an extension of its 2018 agreement with China on the nomination of bishops.

A woman holding a rosay prays during Mass at a church in Beirut Aug. 9, 2020. The church was damaged five days earlier in explosions in Beirut's port area. Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, described the shrinking presence of Christians in the Middle East as a sinking ship to leaders of the Middle East Council of Churches Sept. 18.

Cardinal likens fading Christian presence in Middle East to a sinking ship

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BEIRUT -- Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai warned that the Christian presence in the Middle East is shrinking and church leaders "are called to face the winds that blow in our homelands."

Yanomami Indians follow agents of Brazil’s environmental agency during an operation against illegal gold mining on Indigenous land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Mining petition to be aired, should government stand

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If the Liberal government stands past the Sept. 23 throne speech, Martin Blanchet’s seven-year battle to get somebody with authority to look into how Canadian mining companies and others treat workers, communities and the environment in poor countries will finally get an airing in the House of Commons. 

Charline Grant, left, with her husband and three children. Grant is the first system navigator for Parents of Black Children (PoBC) in York Region.

Parents unite to fight racism

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Parents in York Region looking for support while advocating for their Black children within the education system have another place to turn.

Archbishop Bolen

Faith leaders join forces over suicide strategy

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A Saskatchewan judge has ruled against the provincial government and in favour of the religious freedom of a Métis man fasting and praying on the front lawn of the Saskatchewan legislature for a more robust suicide prevention strategy.

A screenshot from the virtual RiseUp conference features, clockwise from top left, Dorothy Pilarski, Dr. Josephine Lombardi, Cardinal Thomas Collins and Fr. Ed Curtis of St. Michael’s Cathedral-Basilica.

Closing churches ‘the most horrible thing’

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Cardinal Thomas Collins said there is no mistaking what the last six months of dealing with COVID-19 has been: a plague on our world.

Cathay Wagantall, a Conservative MP from Saskatchewan.

Canadians want real debate on abortion, says MP

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OTTAWA -- An MP who wants a law to make it illegal to abort an unborn child based solely on a baby’s sex thinks her biggest challenge is not to convince Canadians of this, but instead is to convince those in the halls of power.

Cardinal Rai

‘Existential danger’ threatens Lebanon’s future

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RYE, N.Y. -- Amid the turmoil of a global pandemic coupled with a devastating August explosion that destroyed Beirut’s port while killing 200, injuring 6,000 more, Lebanon is facing “an existential danger” it has never experienced before, said Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai.

Bruce Springsteen is seen Sept. 10, 2020, on a Boston College YouTube video. The singer, songwriter and musician was initially scheduled to speak to first-year students in person, but instead addressed them via a Zoom webinar link from his home studio in Colts Neck, N.J.

Bruce Springsteen gives pep talk of sorts to Boston College freshmen

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WASHINGTON -- As this unusual school year gets underway, Boston College freshmen were reminded that they've already been through a lot and were urged -- as college graduating seniors usually are -- that they have to go out and change the world.

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