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An undated photo of the city of Diest, Belgium. A Belgian court recently fined a Catholic care home for refusing to allow lethal injection for a terminally ill on its property.

Catholic nursing home in Belgium fined for refusing euthanasia request

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A Belgian court has fined a Catholic care home for refusing to let a terminally ill woman receive a lethal injection on their property.

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, died July 2 at his New York home at age 87. He is pictured in a 2015 photo.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel remembered for role as world's conscience

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NEW YORK – Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa, arrives for the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 14. In a series of tweets, Napier says abortion rates among blacks in the U.S. is "a genocide."

South African cardinal calls U.S. abortion rate ‘a genocide’ for blacks

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A South African cardinal who recently rejected calls for the Catholic Church to apologize to gay people has said the abortion rate among black women in the U.S. is “a genocide” and added: “Isn’t this something we should be apologizing for?”

Refugees wait for food rations from the United Nations in early February at a camp in Mwanza, Malawi. In Malawi, where 40 percent of the population needs food aid, the country’s bishops have called for international help to avert a crisis.

Bishops say 6.5 million Malawians need food aid

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LILONGWE, Malawi – In Malawi, where 40 percent of the population needs food aid, the country's bishops have called for international help to avert a crisis.

The Satanic Temple's template for a statue of Baphomet is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters June 27, 2014.

Florida city council may halt opening prayers to stop Satanist’s invocation

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The city council in Pensacola, Fla., will consider ending the traditional practice of inviting local clergy to deliver an opening prayer at meetings in order to thwart an invocation planned for July 14 by a representative of the Satanic Temple West Florida.

Rula Badarna, left, and Stuart Levy, both nurses at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, say their ward is a model of religious coexistence and friendship.

In Israel, followers of different religions help each other keep the faith

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JERUSALEM – Stuart Levy, a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital, updates his ward’s work schedule several times a week, with staffers’ vacations, birthdays and more religious holidays than many people know exist.

Colombian soldiers carry the bodies of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels killed in combat at an army base in Tame in 2014. Some in the country is hoping that the papal visit early next year will spark a self-examination by the Colombian Church regarding its role in the country's war.

Some Colombians see papal visit as chance to examine Church role in war

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BOGOTA, Colombia – When Pope Francis visits Colombia early next year, his visit may become a celebration of peace in a country with the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere.

"Defusing Hate,” a new guidebook for counteracting dangerous speech, was written by Rachel Hilary Brown and published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

‘Defusing Hate’: Holocaust museum publishes a handbook

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WASHINGTON – Hoping to make the world safer, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has published a guidebook on countering dangerous speech, authored by a young American who helped quell intertribal conflict in Kenya during its 2013 elections.

Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, delivers his homily during the Divine Liturgy June 26 at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y. Cardinal Rai arrived in the U.S. June 22 to begin a pastoral visit that concludes July 10.

Patriarch urges refugee repatriation as long-term solution in Middle East

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NEW YORK – Poor, destitute refugees now comprise half the people living in Lebanon, according to Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks with citizens in late May outside the presidential residence in Mexico City. How much the same-sex marriage issue and Catholic Church intervention, along with the intervention from evangelical congregations, swayed Mexico's recent elections remains disputed.

Did same-sex marriage issue help sway regional elections in Mexico?

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MEXICO CITY – Mexicans turned out in droves to oust the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in June 5 regional elections. Exit polls showed voters citing crime and corruption for removing the party of increasingly unpopular President Enrique Pena Nieto in seven of the 12 states holding gubernatorial elections.

An LGBT lambda equality flag flies in West Hollywood, California, United States, on June 26, 2015.

California bill would limit colleges’ religious exemptions

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A bill wending its way through the California Legislature would limit religious colleges’ ability to claim an exemption from federal Title IX regulations that bar discrimination against LGBT students and faculty.

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