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‘God has saved me,’ says Indian Jesuit after release from Afghanistan
A Jesuit priest kidnapped in Afghanistan and held for eight months told reporters "God has saved me," but he said he did not want to discuss details of his captivity.
Jesuit’s kidnapping forces JRS to reassess operations in risky areas
The kidnapping of Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar has made Jesuit Refugee Service reassess the way it operates in many high-risk countries, said an agency official.
Ukrainian Catholic leader invites pope, says visit could bring peace
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church invited Pope Francis to visit the war-torn nation, saying it would help bring peace.
Ukrainian bishops seek to be heard over the din of rhetoric
As the Ukrainian Catholic bishops met in a private audience with Pope Francis Feb. 20, Ukraine was marking its first Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, commemorating those who died in the Euromaidan movement one year earlier.
Pope tells Ukraine’s bishops to unite against unfolding tragedies
Pope Francis urged Ukraine's Eastern- and Latin-rite Catholic bishops to be a clear moral voice calling for peace and harmony, and to avoid politicizing their role as church leaders.
To protests deaths, Mexicans mark ’43’ instead of cross in ashes
Some Mexicans used Ash Wednesday to rebuke authorities who insist that 43 students were kidnapped, killed and then had their bodies burned in a garbage dump and ashes tossed in a river.
Pax Christi program in Cite Soleil helps youths become peacemakers
Mentor Elison wants peace for the little kids, if for no one else, in Cite Soleil.
Patriarchs’ Lenten messages focus on struggles of Mideast Christians
The Middle East is suffering a "Way of the Cross" that is the greatest tragedy since World War II, Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham said in a Lenten message about suffering.
Photographs and memories all that remain after kidnap of Iraqi toddler
A colored photocopy of a smiling, blond toddler is the only thing adorning the bare walls of the tiny room where Ayda Abada, her blind husband, and four children shelter after they were chased out of their Christian village in Iraq by Islamic State extremists.
Earthquake-displaced Haitians live day-to-day, wanting a permanent home
For the past five years, Elouisna Francois has lived where God sent her. Never mind that it's far from her old neighborhood in the capital -- where she had made a good life until the country's January 2010 earthquake -- and that there are no basic services, like running water, sanitation or electricity.