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Pope Francis walks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades as he arrives for a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 2, 2021.

Meeting Cypriot leaders, Pope Francis urges dialogue for peace, care for migrants

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NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Sympathizing with the Cypriot government and citizens feeling overwhelmed by an influx of migrants and refugees, Pope Francis urged them to remember their history as a crossroads and meeting place of people of different cultures and traditions.

People in Washington gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 1, 2021, the day justices heard oral arguments in a case about a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.

U.S. Supreme Court seems willing to allow Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban

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WASHINGTON -- In the Supreme Court's first major abortion case in decades -- which looked at Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy -- the majority of justices Dec. 1 seemed willing to let that ban stay in place.

Villagers returning from a market in the town of Yechila walk past scores of burned vehicles in Ethiopia's Tigray region July 10, 2021. Ethiopian Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat has called for an immediate end to aerial bombardment in Tigray, the Ethiopian region where a deadly conflict has unfolded since November 2020.

Bishop calls for an immediate end to bombings in Ethiopia's Tigray region

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat called for an immediate end to aerial bombardment in Tigray, the Ethiopian region where a deadly conflict has unfolded since last November.

Refugees and migrants stand next to a tent in the Mavrovouni camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, March 29. Pope Francis will visit Lesbos Dec. 5 during his five-day trip to Cyprus and Greece.

Migration in spotlight for Pope’s Greek trip

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will draw the world’s attention to migration once again as he visits Cyprus and Greece in early December.

People enjoy the sunset on Manila Bay, Philippines, in this Jan. 20, 2015, file photo. The quincentenary that marks the introduction of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines cannot go unnoticed, given the impact and influence that Catholicism has and continues to have in the everyday lives of Filipinos.

Mass to mark 500 years of Filipino Christianity

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A Filipino Fiesta can go on a long time, and then into overtime. But given that Filipinos have been Christian for 500 years, it’s no surprise that the quincentennial celebrations in Toronto have stretched out longer than the original plan.

Chairs left abandoned are seen Nov. 22, 2021, after a car plowed through the Waukesha Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wis., at about 4:39 p.m. local time Nov. 21.

Wisconsin parishes pray for victims after SUV plows through parade crowd

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WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Church leaders and parishes offered prayers for the five people who died and dozens more who were injured, including a Catholic priest, church parishioners and Catholic school students, when an SUV plowed through spectators watching a Christmas parade.

An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, carries her child near the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border Nov. 22, 2020. One year after the start of the conflict in Tigray, the rebels are driving toward the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

D&P’s Ethiopian efforts continue despite complications

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There are 20 million people in dire need in Ethiopia, a civil war is raging, drought is devouring crops and funding from donor nations to the United Nations humanitarian response has so far fallen $1.3 billion (U.S.) short, but Development and Peace is not giving up.

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives his presidential address Nov. 16, 2021, during a session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the first in-person bishops' meeting since 2019.

Church called to heal division: Gomez

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BALTIMORE -- The U.S. Church today is called more than ever to carry out its centuries-long evangelizing mission at a time of spiritual awakening rising from “under the clouds of the pandemic” and the country’s uncertain future, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told his fellow prelates.

People displaced by fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region wait in line to receive food donations at a temporary shelter in the town of Shire.

Prayers for Ethiopia grow louder

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For the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of Canada congregation at St. Mary Cathedral in Toronto, prayer vigils for peace in their homeland have been ongoing for the past 30 years.

Pope Francis arrives for a visit with the community at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq, March 7.

Iraqi Christians hope to build on papal visit

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ANKAWA, Iraq -- Nahla and Valentina like to stop and pray at Mar Elia Chaldean Catholic Church in the centre of this small majority Christian community. The grounds of the church once sheltered several hundred Christians who were forced to flee their homes in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked Mosul and surrounding villages some 80 kilometres away.

A Polish soldier installs barbed wire on the Poland-Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, Nov. 9, 2021. Poland deployed 15,000 troops with razor wire and tear gas and announced plans for a 65-mile border wall after stranded migrants, mostly from Asia and the Middle East, amassed at the border.

Polish church leaders offer support for refugees, but back border security

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WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's military archbishop urged security forces to prevent the illegal entry of refugees and migrants, as the country's bishops' conference announced a nationwide collection to help those amassing on the frontier with Belarus.

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