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French farmers drive their tractors in a go-slow operation in Compans near Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle Airport Jan. 27, 2024, in a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe.

France's Catholic bishops strongly back farmers in their massive protest

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France's bishops stand in solidarity with farmers protesting across the country. After days of protests in the local provinces, farmers were determined to block the main roads leading to Paris, with spectacular traffic jams of tractors and farm vehicles they formed Jan. 29 across the French capital.

The bell tower of the Italian Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey, is pictured after two masked gunmen attacked the church during Sunday morning Mass, Jan. 28, 2024, leaving at least one worshipper dead.

Islamic State group claims responsibility for attack on church in Turkey

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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person.

Stonemason Dean MacArthur is restoring the vacant rectory at Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel in Mont Carmel, P.E.I.

Stonemason resurrects P.E.I. rectory

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T Harv. Eker, the Canadian businessman, author and motivational speaker who espouses that a person’s mental attitude is foundational in creating wealth, once said “it’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.”

Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix

Cardinal Lacroix steps aside until sex abuse allegations are clarified

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Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix has just announced to his principal collaborators that he is temporarily withdrawing from his activities until the situation (involving sexual abuse allegations) is clarified.

These are the blueprints for St. Francis Xavier Church, which is set to be built to replace the church torched in 2021.

Attawapiskat eager for church rebuild

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St. Francis Xavier Church in Attawapiskat, one of the churches destroyed in a rash of fires across the nation in 2021, is set to rise from the ashes.

Fr. Ron McDonnell with local Indigenous teachers in northern Brazil.

Canadian priest breathes new life into dying languages

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A Canadian priest has launched a new phase in his efforts to preserve the threatened languages of the Makushi and Wapishana Indigenous peoples in the vast Diocese of Roraima in northern Brazil.

Quebec cardinal named in sex-assault class action

Quebec cardinal named in sex-assault class action

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Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix of Québec was named in court documents Jan. 25 in connection with a sweeping class-action sex assault lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Québec in 2022.

Thousands of Catholics have passed through the Holy Door in the Sacred Heart Chapel of Québec City’s Notre-Dame du Québec Basilica to mark the jubilee year for the Archdiocese of Quebec’s 350th anniversary.

Quebec opens doors to its 350th anniversary

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As the Archdiocese of Quebec embarks on a jubilee year to mark its 350th anniversary, it hopes to strike the right balance between celebrating the significant historical role played by the archdiocese while acknowledging the sober realities facing the modern Church.

Protesters hold up placards while demanding the release of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, at a rally in Lahore. Bibi’s case led Raza Muhammad, who is seeking asylum in Canada, to renounce his radical Islamist faith to convert to Christianity.

Convert hunted by Islamists seeks asylum

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From radical Islamic extremist determined to convert “infidels” to his faith, to the leader of a Christian organization in Germany, Raza Muhammad’s journey has been fraught with danger at every step of the way.

Haitian National Police patrol outside the College Marie-Anne in Port-au-Prince Jan. 22, 2024, days after six nuns were kidnapped by armed men while sisters were traveling on a bus. The nuns, who have since been freed, were abducted, along with other passengers on a bus, are members of the Sisters of St. Anne, the congregation that runs the college.

'We give thanks to God!' says Haiti archbishop as six nuns are freed from captivity

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The six nuns kidnapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 19 have been freed, and the archbishop of the capital was overjoyed and thankful at the news.

Nightfever invites guests to join in prayer. It originated at WYD 2005 in Cologne, Germany.

Nightfever invites guests into Christ’s presence

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The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth hosted the youth-driven initiative Nightfever Jan. 21 at Halifax’s St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, offering passersby an invitation to join in prayer. 

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