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Vatican funds job-creation project for refugees in Jordan
Fifteen Iraqi refugees will have full-time work cultivating, producing and selling vegetables and oil. The jobs will allow them to become self-supporting.
Missionaries are the heroes of evangelization, pope says
Young women and men who are tired of today's self-centered, materialistic society should consider becoming missionaries -- the heroes of evangelization, Pope Francis said.
Evacuated Fort McMurray Catholics gather for Mass in Edmonton
When the principal fled her Catholic school May 3 ahead of the wildfires she took only her laptop computer, in which were email addresses for staff and parents of students whom she invited to the Mass.
Bishop reiterates that popular Puerto Rican Marian devotion not approved
The diocese has said that it has not found the apparent visions as supernatural in nature and has advised the faithful to avoid affiliating with the association.
Christian, Muslim leaders say religion can ‘humanize’ society
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Amman-based Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies held their fourth colloquium May 3-4.
International participation high at Italian March for Life
The estimated 30,000 people walked through the historic center of the city and joined Pope Francis for the midday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer in St. Peter's Square.
Pope prays for people displaced by Canadian wildfires
Pope Francis said he was praying for the nearly 90,000 people left homeless in Fort McMurray, Alberta Province, and asked God to bless civil authorities coordinating the city's evacuation and providing shelter.
Health care is a right, not a privilege, pope says
The Catholic Church is not a fancy medical clinic for the rich, but a "field hospital" that -- often literally -- provides the only medical care some people will ever receive, Pope Francis said.
At Vatican trial, witness says author had right to publish documents
Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi did not plot the release of leaked Vatican financial documents with another journalist and was free to publish them, a defense witness told a Vatican court in the "Vatileaks" trial.
Faith does not deaden pain but teaches that it is passing, pope says
The Gospel reading May 6 was Jesus' telling his disciples before the crucifixion that they would face a time of weeping and grieving, "but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you."