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Caritas Mexico raises $900,000 after September quakes
The money will be used to build relief centers and shelters for those who were left homeless or displaced.
New Quebec law about state neutrality on religion under fire
The provincial law requires that all public services -- including buses and trains -- be accessed without anything covering a person's face. Critics called it discriminatory against some Muslim women.
British bishops: Abortion law erodes sense of life as something sacred
Catholics must strive to help British society rediscover the value and inviolability of human life after 50 years of legal abortion, British bishops said.
U.S. Embassy to Vatican prepares to welcome new ambassador
The charge d'affaires of the embassy said the fight against human trafficking and the protection of religious freedom around the globe would continue to be top priorities in U.S.-Vatican relations.
In Myanmar, Pope Francis’ words will be monitored closely
"A wrong word from the Holy Father can plunge the country into chaos," said a Myanmar bishops' spokesman. Mere mention of the Muslim Rohingyas, who are hated by Myanmar's Buddhists, might bring violent reprisals.
Martyred Spanish Claretians offered culture of peace, says cardinal
More than a hundred Spanish Claretian missionaries were beatified as Catholic martyrs, eight decades after they were killed during their country's 1936-39 civil war.
In letter, pope clarifies new norms for translation of Mass prayers
The Vatican won't "impose" a specific liturgical translation on bishops' conferences, Pope Francis told a prominent Vatican Cardinal, but rather will recognize the bishops' expertise on the best translation of Latin texts into their local languages.
Church can’t be blind, deaf to people with special needs, pope says
The Catholic Church must be welcoming and creative in finding ways to not let people's physical, psychological or intellectual limitations keep them from encountering God, Pope Francis said.
In Caribbean, church agencies help as process of rebuilding begins
Caribbean islands decimated during a disastrous hurricane season are starting the long, costly process of rebuilding, even as aid agencies are assisting thousands of families left homeless by the storms.
Holy Land Christians must work together, pope tells patriarch
UPDATED - "How good it would be to say of Catholics and Orthodox living in Jerusalem what the Evangelist Luke said of the first Christian community: 'All who believed were together ... one heart and soul,'" the pope told the patriarch.