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A local woman carries a baby at the site where an apartment building was damaged during Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine June 24, 2023.

Jesuits reopen Montreal’s ‘Old Villa’ for Ukrainians fleeing wartorn homeland

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Just a little more than six months after Fr. Kevin Kelly SJ cleared the rooms and locked the doors for what he thought was the last time at a former Jesuit retreat house in Montreal, he and his team have now scrambled to prepare the Old Villa to once again welcome Ukrainians to Canada.

A Ukrainian solder picks up unexploded parts of a cluster bomb left after Russia's invasion near the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, April 10, 2022. In a CNN interview July 9, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden defended what he called a "very difficult decision" to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine amid Russia's invasion of that country, weapons the Vatican opposes.

U.S. to provide Ukraine cluster munitions opposed by the church as 'inhumane'

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Efforts to save historic St. Bernard Church in Digby County, N.S., continue, with an Acadian community group in negotiations with the Archdiocee of Halifax-Yarmouth.

Tax break sought to save historic Nova Scotia church

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Nation Prospère Acadie is continuing its quest to save historic St. Bernard Church in Digby County, N.S.

Cardinal Thomas Collins speaks at a past Cardinal’s Dinner against the “shadow of euthanasia.” The religious voice on such matters needs to be heard in the public square, Canada’s bishops say in a new pastoral letter.

Canada's bishops speak out for religious freedom

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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a new pastoral letter, is seeking to empower Catholics to reclaim their distinctive perspective and voice in society.

Alex Schadenberg

Ontario Ministry of Health funds euthanasia with palliative dollars, pro-lifers claim

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Emergency personnel examine the area around a residential building that was hit by a Russian missile strike in Lviv, Ukraine, July 6, 2023. The missile attack killed at least four people, injured 37 others and destroyed hundreds of homes, apartments and other buildings and struck within some 600 feet of Ukrainian Catholic University, which sustained minor damage to four of its campus buildings. No one on campus was injured, the school said in a statement.

Russia launches 'barbaric attack' on civilians near Ukrainian Catholic University

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A Catholic university community in western Ukraine is reeling from a July 6 missile attack on the city of Lviv, located less than 80 km from the Polish border.

People who fled their homes due to fighting between the Afar Special Forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front in Berhale, Ethiopia, wait for food near a makeshift compound in Afdera district, Feb. 23, 2022.

Food aid stoppage brings hunger 'beyond human imagination' in Ethiopia's Tigray region

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Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."

Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, is pictured in a recent photo at the apostolic nunciature in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Pope Francis' ambassador: Staying in Ukraine during war a 'big, big grace' amid fears, frustrations

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As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine hit the 493-day mark June 30, OSV News sat down with Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, papal nuncio to Ukraine, to discuss his experiences of the war. Based in Kyiv, Visvaldas was visiting Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv for a conference and commencement exercises.

Windsor, Ont.'s historic Our Lady of the Assumption Church continues to be refurbished.

Organ restoration latest phase in Assumption renos

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The latest phase in the restoration of historic Our Lady of the Assumption Church here includes the dismantling of the 104-year-old pipe organ.

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi speaks with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Moscow Patriarchate, during a meeting at the Danilov monastery in Moscow June 29, 2023.

Our churches must serve peace, Russian Orthodox leader tells cardinal

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The Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches should join efforts to promote peace before threats of a "major global armed conflict," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church told Pope Francis' envoy on a peace mission to Moscow.

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