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Patriarch rejects calls for outside military intervention in Syria
"It is reckless to think of military interventions, conducted from the outside, to defend Christians in Syria and the Middle East," said Melkite Patriarch Gregoire III Laham of Damascus, Syria.
Assyrian Christians who escaped Islamic State seek refuge in Lebanon
As of March 17, the Assyrian Church of the East in Lebanon had registered 50 families from the region, and more are coming into neighboring Lebanon each day.
Syrian children risk becoming ‘lost generation,’ Vatican official says
Without family, a legal identity and adequate education, children uprooted by the ongoing violence in Syria and the Middle East "are at risk of becoming a lost generation," said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.
Pope recognizes miracle needed to declare French couple saints
The canonization ceremony for Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, is likely to take place during the world Synod of Bishops on the family in October.
Welcome children, learn from them, pope says at audience
Children are a blessing for humanity and for the church, bringing new life and energy to families and society, Pope Francis said. Unfortunately, he said, too often children are society's "great rejected ones, because they aren't even allowed to be born!"
Catholic Church continues, in new ways, to help immigrant population
There has been so much church involvement on this issue that a few of the panelists at the conference: "American Catholics and Immigration: Past and Present" said their allotted time to speak wasn't nearly enough to delve into the topic.
Potential buyer of Catholic hospitals in California backs out of deal
Prime Healthcare Services, a California-based hospital management company, backed out of a proposed $843 million deal to buy six not-for-profit Daughters of Charity Health System hospitals in the state because it said it found the terms of the sale "burdensome and restrictive."
Today’s teaching on the family
See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”
Blind students among thousands protesting rape of elderly nun in India
Students at a Hindu-run school for the blind joined a nationwide outcry over the gang rape of a 74-year-old Catholic nun.
Australian prelate maintains innocence after charges of hiding abuse
Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide has been charged with concealing child abuse by a priest, but maintained he is innocent of violating the law.