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A girl wearing a coronavirus-related protective face mask is pictured in London March 2, 2020.

Lourdes shrine closes healing pools as precaution against coronavirus

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ROME -- As the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in Europe continued to grow, the French Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes announced that pilgrims were still welcome, but the pools the sick bathe in hoping for healing would be closed temporarily.

Following his weekly audience at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2020, Pope Francis blessed this "Dowry Painting" of Our Lady of Walsingham, the Catholic national shrine dedicated to Mary in Norfolk, England.

English Catholics to rededicate nation as 'Mary's Dowry'

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MANCHESTER, England -- Catholics are preparing for the historic rededication of England as "Mary's Dowry" in the hope that it will spur the re-evangelization of their country.

Fr. John Perdue launches a surprise at a teammate and an unsuspecting audience during a charity game in Mattawa, Ont.

Knights earn an assist for Flying Fathers

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The Flying Fathers’ goal of playing and praying for a better world is getting a much-needed boost from the Knights of Columbus.

The Vatican Apostolic Archives, left, will be getting more scholarly visits this year. After decades of anticipation, the Vatican is opening its archives on the World War II pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Robert Ventresca, right, a leading scholar on the Holocaust, will be one of the scholars from Canada making a visit.

Historian ready for long archive journey

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Getting an early look at the full archive of the wartime papacy of Pius XII is more than a passing interest for King’s University College historian Robert Ventresca.

Live models were making a point about how young women are turned into products for the sex trade in this storefront display on Queen Street West in Toronto on Feb. 22.

‘Shoppable Girls’ spreading the word

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What’s a teenage girl worth? About $280,000 per year in income for sex traffickers, according to Covenant House research.

Ethiopian Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel is seen at the headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington Oct. 24, 2019.

Ethiopian cardinal, other church leaders barred from entering Eritrea

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Ethiopian Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel and his delegation were barred from entering neighboring Eritrea, a development that underlines the souring relations between the church and the Eritrean authorities.

Asia Bibi, pictured in Paris Feb. 26, 2020, is seeking political asylum in France less than a year after fleeing Pakistan for the safety of Canada. The Catholic woman spent nearly a decade on death row after she was falsely accused of blasphemy.

Asia Bibi seeks political asylum in France

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MANCHESTER, England -- Asia Bibi is seeking political asylum in France less than a year after fleeing her native Pakistan for the safety of Canada.

Solidarity banner leads thousands through downtown Toronto on Feb. 22 in a show of support for the Indigenous people protesting a B.C. gas pipeline.

Toronto protest sends message of solidarity

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Thousands of people who marched through downtown Toronto to Nathan Phillips Square Feb. 22 were not just protesting — they were making a spiritual response to Canada’s history of colonialism, said participant Liz Stone.

Delta Hospice Society is looking at legal and other options after the B.C. government announced it may take over the facility over the hospice’s refusal to allow assisted suicide on site.

B.C. Delta hospice losing government funding over assisted suicide

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VANCOUVER -- Delta Hospice Society president Angelina Ireland is “shocked and outraged” that the B.C. government will pull all funding from the hospice by 2021 because it doesn’t offer assisted suicide.

A supporter of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s hereditary chiefs poses in Edmonton Feb. 19 at a railway blockade as part of protests against British Columbia’s Coastal GasLink pipeline.

‘Fundamental change’ needed

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OTTAWA -- Some Catholic organizations fear efforts of reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations are at risk in the wake of protests and blockades over a B.C. pipeline project.

Opponents of assisted suicide staged a “die-in” following a rally on Parliament Hill in 2016 prior to Bill C-41 passing that legalized euthanasia in Canada. A new bill creates an opening for those who want an assisted suicide but whose death is not “reasonably foreseeable.”

Two-tier euthanasia rules proposed

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OTTAWA -- The federal government’s proposed changes to assisted suicide will eliminate the requirement that a person’s death be reasonably foreseeable, but the government will not open up the system to the mentally ill at this time.

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