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Vatican shuts down museums as COVID-19 cases, deaths mount in Italy
As COVID-19-related deaths reached their highest level since early May and Italy began enacting new restrictions to slow the spread, the Vatican has closed its museums through Dec. 3.
Golf pros, Catholic Social Services team up for clothing drive
Several Delaware County men are sporting an updated look, thanks to an Oct. 22 giveaway organized by the Philadelphia Archdiocese and the nonprofit Pros Fore Clothes.
Voters in Louisiana, Colorado decide on abortion measures
Louisiana voters by a wide margin Nov. 3 passed a measure declaring there is no right to abortion, while Colorado voters defeated a ban on abortion at 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Church responds as Hurricane Eta pounds Central America
Caritas, Catholic Relief Services and other agencies are working in Nicaragua and Honduras as the Category 4 hurricane made landfall Nov. 3. Catholic facilities are being used as shelters.
As many expected, presidential contest not settled after Election Day
The U.S. remains in uncertainty about the presidential race as vote counting continues, showing Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead slightly in electoral votes, even as President Trump declared victory.
New Mexico archdiocese closes churches amid virus spike
Because "COVID-19 cases and deaths have risen at a rapid rate and have reached alarming numbers," the Archdiocese of Albuquerque has closed Catholic churches for indoor worship.
Lebanese cardinal: Country’s ‘political authority has murdered its people’
At the close of the Oct. 26-31 Maronite bishops synod, Cardinal Bechara Rai said Lebanon's leaders have thrust residents into "anger, despair, revolution" as economic and social crisis deepens.
Local Pakistani faithful rally for kidnapped teen, endangered Christian girls
St. William Parish will celebrate a Nov. 8 Mass for Arzoo Raja, a Pakistani Catholic teen who -- like hundreds of others -- was abducted, forced to convert to Islam and married to a middle-aged man.
Pope, Austrian church leaders urge end to hatred after Vienna attacks
Catholic leaders urged Austrian citizens to uphold key values of tolerance and respect after a terrorist attack that left at least five dead in central Vienna near the central Jewish synagogue.
Philippine churches open doors to typhoon evacuees
Churches are sheltering some of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled Super Typhoon Goni. Some of the victims were buried alive by mudslides around a volcano.