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Solidarity with South Sudan celebrates 10 years of difficult mission
An international group of Catholics has spent the last decade developing new leaders in war-torn South Sudan, but its members have paid a heavy price for their accompaniment of that country's suffering people.
South Sudan Catholic leader: Taking more time with peace pact is good
After almost five years of civil war, South Sudan's leaders agreed to a new peace plan in September. Its implementation is spread over several months, which observers are applauding.
Ukrainian Catholics fear new war after naval clashes
Catholics in Ukraine said people fear a full-scale war with Russia, after a naval confrontation prompted the imposition of martial law in Ukraine's eastern regions.
Seven convicted of murdering Honduran activist Berta Caceres
Caceres, who founded the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras in 1993, was murdered in her home in La Esperanza early March 3, 2016, two days before her 45th birthday, in what police initially called an attempted robbery.
Pope pays tribute to slain Pakistani Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti
Bhatti, who served as Pakistan's minority affairs minister, was gunned down in 2011 after he said he would seek the reform of blasphemy laws to stop the laws from being misused to persecute innocent Christians.
Pope tells kids battling cancer to talk to their guardian angel every day
It is not easy living with cancer, but there is always some kind of victory that awaits each person on the horizon, Pope Francis told young oncology patients from Poland.
Women say church leaders must listen to survivors before abuse summit
All three survivors urged victims of abuse to "go to the police," adding that they believed internal investigations by the church have consistently failed to address the problem since the first cases were reported by journalists in the 1980s.
Salvadoran human rights office pushes courts to prosecute saint’s killer
The Archdiocese of San Salvador is taking the country's judicial system to task, urging the prompt prosecution of those responsible in the assassination of St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, calling for an end to "creative" excuses for not doing so.
Indian archbishop among Christians with papers turned away at polls
Christian leaders suspect that the Hindu nationalist party influenced officials to remove from voter eligibility lists the names of Christians traditionally considered supporters of the party's archrival, the Congress Party.
Basilians pray as they await inquiry results at Toronto school
A scandal has seen six students, ages 14 and 15, charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon following an alleged incident in a locker room.