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Foreign tourists visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem July 10, 2021. Tourists are few and far between with the latest eruption of fighting in the Holy Land.

‘Jobless and hopeless’: Latest fighting devastates Bethlehem’s tourist industry

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“I’ve never experienced anything like this before, never! It’s a war, not ‘like a war,’ it is a war,” said Rony Tabash, a member of a Christian family that has been in Bethlehem for generations, describing how the current conflict is directly impacting the Christian community in the West Bank.

Father Rifat Bader, head of the Catholic Center for Studies and Media in Amman, carries an image of Christ as he concelebrates Easter Mass in Amman, the Jordanian capital, April 16, 2023. Father Bader told OSV News that a Nov. 5, 2023, decision by Jordan's Council of Churches to cancel Christmas festivities amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war shows "solidarity with the people of Gaza."

Jordan's Christians cancel Christmas celebrations in solidarity with suffering Gaza

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Churches in Jordan are canceling Christmas celebrations in solidarity with Gaza as violence in the Palestinian enclave mounts.

A woman receives supplies in Acapulco, Mexico, Nov. 4, 2023, following the devastation of Hurricane Otis. Caritas chapters across Mexico have established collection centers and sent donations to Acapulco, which was left incommunicado after Hurricane Otis battered the tourist destination Oct. 25.

Caritas establishes 'humanitarian bridge' for hurricane-stricken Acapulco

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The morning after Hurricane Otis stormed through Acapulco as a Category 5 monster, Father Leonardo Morales surveyed the damage and saw total destruction.

The historic Église-Sainte-Marie Cathedral in Church Point, N.S. It had appeared that a donor had been found to keep it open, but the unidentified person has discontinued communication with the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth.

Donor pledging to save Nova Scotia parish disappears

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The anonymous donor who emerged from nowhere in April to present an offer of $10 million to save and restore the historic 118-year-old Église Sainte-Marie Catholic Church in Church Point, N.S., has seemingly vanished into thin air.

Adrian Vermeule, left, a legal scholar from Harvard University, and Kevin Vallier, philosophy professor at Bowling Green State University.

Two sides of integralism, never shall they meet

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On Oct. 26, two American professors on opposite ends of a buzzy political philosophy called “Catholic integralism” gave lectures to separate, eager audiences at McGill University. Though the men are more than primed for a public sparring, Montreal didn’t prove to be a site for Adrian Vermeule and Kevin Vallier to meet in the ring.

The charred remains of St. Bernard’s Church in Grouard, Alta., following a May 22 fire that destroyed the church.

Trial date set for alleged Alberta church arsonists

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Two men from High Prairie, Alta., charged for setting fire to St. Bernard’s Church in Grouard, Alta., on May 22 are slated for trial almost a year to the day later.

St. Mary’s University president and vice-chancellor Sinda Vanderpool (second from left) with students at The Field of Crosses Memorial in 2022.

Students embrace sacrifice for freedom

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Calgary business leader and philanthropist Murray McCann is touched each year by a gesture performed by students from Calgary’s St. Mary’s University in remembrance of those who gave their lives for the freedom they now enjoy.

Photo taken at the Rite of Consecration of Holly Garnett that took place on Oct. 1, 2022.

Consecrated virgins commit to the ultimate groom

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A woman standing in a church wearing a white dress and veil is an instantly recognizable image, but for a small yet growing number of Catholic women, the groom that awaits them at the altar is not a nervous young man but Jesus Himself.

Members of a downtown Toronto neighbourhood protest in front of a building that is to house a respite centre run by the St. Felix Centre.

Neighbours fight St. Felix Centre’s respite centre

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A new respite centre to be run by the St. Felix Centre in downtown Toronto is facing strong opposition from community stakeholders.

Assisted death up 31% in 2022

Assisted death up 31% in 2022

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A new Health Canada report revealed the number of euthanasia deaths in 2022 was 13,241, 31.2-per-cent higher than the 10,092 Canadians who requested assisted suicide in 2021.

Bishop Scott McCaig, centre, Canada’s Military Ordinariate.

Chaplain General pauses ban on religious language for Nov. 11

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Canada’s military ordinariate is pleased that the Chaplain General has put a temporary pause on the new Public Reflection Policy that would have prohibited overtly religious language by chaplains at Remembrance Day ceremonies.

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