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Bishops urge Kenya to reconsider decision to close refugee camps
"We remind the government that it bears the primary responsibility to prioritize humanitarian principles in accordance with its international and national laws," the bishops said.
Indian couples frustrated as Missionaries of Charity stop adoptions
Although the sisters continue to care for abandoned, destitute and sick children, they have stopped putting them up for adoption because new government rules were "contrary to our Christian values."
To ignore the poor is to despise God, pope says
How Christians treat the poor indicates their relationship with God, Pope Francis said. "If I don't throw open the door of my heart to the poor, that door remains closed, even to God, and this is terrible!" the pope said.
World leaders urged to act to counter terrorist ‘narratives, ideologies’
"Religious leaders and people of faith must be at the forefront in delegitimizing the manipulation of faith and distortion of sacred texts as a justification for violence," Archbishop Bernardito Auza said.
In new interview, pope riffs on religious freedom, abuse crisis
Governments must respect people's conscientious objection to secular laws, Pope Francis told a French Catholic newspaper. And he again called for zero tolerance of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
Mission must come before maintaining institutions, pope says
Opening the Italian bishops' conference annual assembly in the Vatican May 16, the pope focused on the bishops' main agenda item: "the renewal of clergy."
Armenians say ‘whole population’ set to welcome Pope Francis in June
Many Armenians say Pope Francis will be widely welcomed when he visits the country in June, thanks in part to a remark he made about genocide more than a year ago.
Iraq’s humanitarian need is so vast, ‘it’s shocking,’ says speaker
A rising tide of intolerance in the Middle East threatens minority faith communities with cultural extinction, said speakers at a May 10 lecture in New York.
Drought ravages Ethiopian communities, driving a rise in hunger
Alarming levels of hunger, caused by the worst drought in about half a century, has left about 10 percent of all Ethiopians -- some 10 million in all -- in need of food aid.
Marchers in Canada plead for lawmakers to drop assisted-suicide bill
"The scourge of euthanasia and assisted suicide is upon us, and we need only to look to countries of Western Europe that have gone before us down this dark path to see what is in store."