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Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, president of the Polish bishops' conference, poses for a photo in Rome Sept. 25, 2021.

Polish prelate offers help in case of jailed ex-members of government on hunger strike

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The hunger strike by two imprisoned ex-members of the Polish government has caused an international stir. Now the church wants to try to resolve the conflict.

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and Ambassador Visconti di Madrone, the order's governor general, light candles at the site marking the birth of Jesus in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Cardinal Filoni makes pilgrimage to Holy Land as sign of peace, solidarity

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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Men install an Armenian flag next to a checkpoint on the road leading to Artsakh near the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia, Sept. 22, 2023.

Armenians won’t accept loss of Artsakh

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The 100,000 Armenians who fled en masse after Azerbaijan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh — the enclave known to Armenians as Artsakh — last September are now facing a bitter winter as homeless refugees in Armenia.

Firefighters battle a rectory fire at St. Bernard Church in Digby County, N.S.

RCMP say Nova Scotia rectory fire ‘suspicious’

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Meteghan RCMP have opened an arson investigation after deeming a rectory fire next to the former St. Bernard Church in Digby County, N.S., to be “suspicious in nature.”

The heads of Mary and baby Jesus were broken off a statue at Ste. Anne-Des-Pins in Sudbury, Ont.

Database tracks persecution of Christians

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Global Christian Relief (GCR) has launched a new searchable violent incidents database (VID) that chronicles all the violent attacks on Christians and people of faith around the world.

A file photo shows a "Defend Religious Freedom" banner above the front door of St. John's Church in Onawa, Iowa. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' first annual "State of Religious Liberty in the United States," published Jan. 16, 2024, identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the church's service to people who are migrants.

U.S. bishops identify liberty concerns

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A new annual report by the U.S. bishops’ conference identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the Church’s service to people who are migrants.

A bouquet of flowers to celebrate the end of the reconstruction of the medieval choir framework of the Notre Dame Cathedral is pictured in Paris Jan. 12.

Notre Dame roof structure completed

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In a historic year for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which the French capital and the whole world will see reopen Dec. 8, milestones will be reported on regularly, but this one made Parisians shed a tear or two: Reconstruction of the roof structure is now complete.

Win in Alberta for doctors’ conscience rights

Win in Alberta for doctors’ conscience rights

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Pro-life organizations are celebrating the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta’s (CPSA) decision not to impose an “effective referral” mandate that would have forced health practitioners to violate conscience rights to facilitate objectionable procedures like assisted suicide or abortion.

Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa walks outside a Catholic church in Managua May 20, 2022. After more than 500 days' detention, the Ortega regime released the prelate, who has been the Nicaraguan government's most prominent critic, from prison Jan. 14, 2023, and sent into exile along with 18 other imprisoned churchmen. Bishop Álvarez safely landed in Rome Jan. 14, the Vatican confirmed.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez released, exiled from Nicaragua after over 500 days of detention

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Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 imprisoned churchmen as the Nicaraguan government expelled its most prominent critic, whose presence behind bars bore witness to the Sandinista regime descent into totalitarianism, along with its unrelenting persecution of the Catholic Church.

Flames engulf St. Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville, Alta., June 30, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media.

Church burnings said to be ‘understandable’

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According to the Catholic Civil Rights League’s (CCRL) database, at least 85 Catholic churches have been set ablaze or vandalized since the unproven discovery on May 27, 2021, of 215 suspected unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Participants at last year’s GTA prayer service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, including Cardinal Thomas Collins, seated second from the left, pose for a photo.

Christian unity puts God’s love in action

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This year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, celebrated Jan. 18-25, will have the full participation of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

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