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Deacon Roman Zaviyskyy, from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, said for Russia, “the very idea of Ukraine is an offense against the idea of east Slavic unity.” He spoke in Toronto Nov. 15 at a conference on Ukraine.

Spirituality alive on the Maidan

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TORONTO - As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Brisbane, Australia, confronted Vladimir Putin Nov. 15 at G-20 meetings with a stark suggestion that Russia “get out of Ukraine,” Ukrainian scholars and churchmen were in Toronto to discuss the spiritual values of the Ukrainian revolution.

Linda Gibbons is interviewed Nov. 12 by media after charges were withdrawn against her in a Toronto courtroom for her pro-life activism.

After three months in prison, Gibbons’ charges withdrawn

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TORONTO - Charges of disobeying a court order and obstructing a peace officer against Toronto pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons were withdrawn on Nov. 12, charges that never should have been laid in the first place, according to her lawyer. 

Pakistani members of the Christian minority shout slogans during a Nov. 9 protest in Karachi, Pakistan, against the killing of a Christian couple accused of blasphemy. The Catholic Church in Pakistan has presented a series of demands to the government, c alling for a fair and thorough investigation into the beatings and burning of the young Christian couple accused of desecrating the Quran.

Pakistani church sends demands related to blasphemy to government

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THRISSUR, India - The Catholic Church in Pakistan has presented a series of demands to the government, calling for a fair and thorough investigation into the beatings and burning of a young Christian couple accused of desecrating the Quran.

Police stand guard on the roof of a Jerusalem synagogue involved in a fatal attack Nov. 18. Two Palestinians are said to have killed four people with a meat cleaver and a knife before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city amid a surge in religious conflict.

Jerusalem patriarch calls for end to violence in Holy Land

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JERUSALEM - After an early morning synagogue attack left four Israelis dead and eight injured Nov. 18, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal called for an end to all violence in the Holy Land.

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, leads a prayer during an ecumenical service at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington Sept. 9, 2014. The Vatican has lifted its ban on the ordination of married men to the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories.

Vatican lifts ban on married priests for Eastern Catholics in diaspora

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VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has lifted its ban on the ordination of married men to the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories, including in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said the federal contraceptive mandate "is wrong, and we will not obey the mandate."

Priests for Life won't 'obey' HHS mandate

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WASHINGTON - Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said a U.S. federal appeals court that ruled against his organization in its challenge to the federal contraceptive mandate "is wrong, and we will not obey the mandate."

Visitors look at the names of six Jesuits killed during El Salvador’s civil war in the chapel of Central American University in San Salvador. The priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed Nov. 16, 1989.

Salvadoran division that led to Jesuit massacre still evident

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TORONTO - The memory of six Jesuit scholars, their housekeeper and her daughter should encompass more than the mass murders 25 years ago that sparked international outrage, said Jesuit philosophy student Kevin Kelly. 

Pope Francis was asked to avoid President Recep Tayyip Erdogan new 1,000-room palace known locally as the “White Palace” during his visit to Turkey on Nov. 28.

Pope Francis asked to avoid Turkey’s lavish 1,000-room presidential palace

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis’ penchant for austerity and humility will face a diplomatic challenge when he visits Turkey’s new ostentatious presidential palace on his first visit to the country later this month.

Iraqi Christians and supporters marched for religious freedom through the streets of downtown Toronto Aug. 10. Despite relative freedom, controversy over Quebec’s proposed secular charter in 2013 prompted Aid to the Church in Need to designate Canada a country of concern for religious freedom.

Religious freedom ‘of concern’ in Canada

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Canada has been rated a country “of concern” in the latest “Religious Freedom in the World” report issued by the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. 

Doves fly over Filipinos lighting candles as they offer prayers and flowers at a mass gravesite in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 8. One year after one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded crashed across the central Philippines, church leade rs in some of the worst-hit parts looked to Pope Francis' brief January visit to Leyte Island with hope, and slight trepidation.

A year after Typhoon Haiya, Filipinos look forward to Pope Francis' visit

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PALO, Philippines - One year after one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded crashed across the central Philippines, Church leaders in some of the worst-hit parts looked to Pope Francis' brief January visit to Leyte Island with hope, and slight trepidation.

An anti-government protester is helped after being shot in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 30. Burkina Faso's Catholic bishops sent a "message of peace and hope" to the West African country after its 27-year president, Blaise Compaore, fled prompting a m ilitary takeover.

Burkina Faso Church rules out prelate as head of transitional council

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OXFORD, England - The Catholic Church in Burkina Faso has welcomed an agreement on restoring civilian rule after a late-October military takeover, but rejected suggestions the handover of power could be supervised by a Catholic bishop.

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