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A woman reacts as protesters gather Sept. 20, 2023, near a government building in Yerevan, Armenia, following the launch a day earlier of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. A ceasefire was declared Sept. 20 in the region, which is a historic Armenian enclave located in southwestern Azerbaijan and internationally recognized as part of that nation.

Artsakh burns while Western leaders fiddle

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In the pre-dawn hours of yet another tranquil Ottawa morning — Sept. 19 — my cell phone buzzed. With a sense of foreboding and apprehension I speed-read the message that popped up.

Coco Gauff of the United States prays after her match against Aryna Sabalenka in the women’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in New York Sept. 9.

Tennis champ praying, not ‘taking it all in’

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A woman reacts as protesters gather Sept. 20, 2023, near a government building in Yerevan, Armenia, following the launch a day earlier of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. A ceasefire was declared Sept. 20 in the region, which is a historic Armenian enclave located in southwestern Azerbaijan and internationally recognized as part of that nation.

Catholic bishop hopes 'history will not repeat itself' after ceasefire in Armenian enclave

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An Armenian Catholic bishop told OSV News he hopes that "history will not repeat itself" following a Sept. 20 ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Firefighters work at the site of an industrial warehouse destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Lviv, Ukraine, Sept. 19, 2023.

Russian drones destroy Caritas warehouse in overnight Ukraine attack, killing one

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A Russian aerial attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has killed one and destroyed a warehouse belonging to Caritas-Spes, the Roman Catholic mission of Caritas in Ukraine.

Jesuit Brother Robert Macke presents a device to study the porosity and density of specimens retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by the Osiris-Rex space mission at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson as seen in a YouTube video he posted on his channel Aug 12, 2022.

Vatican astronomer helps NASA in historic mission to study asteroid

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Jesuit Brother Bob Macke, a Vatican astronomer and meteorite expert, has built a custom device for studying material from the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.

Pope Francis meets with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, president of the Italian bishops' conference and the pope's envoy for peace in Ukraine, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 24, 2023.

After Beijing meeting, Pope Francis' envoy to return to Moscow, Russian official says

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After meeting with a Chinese official in Beijing to discuss paths toward peace in Ukraine and ensuring grain exports from the country, Pope Francis' special envoy is expected to return to Moscow, Russia's foreign minister said.

A woman reacts during a protest against violence in Abuja, Nigeria, Aug. 15, 2020. In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na'Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan burned to death Sept. 7, 2023, when Fulani herdsmen attacked the rector at his parish church, St. Raphael in Fadan Kamantan.

Seminarian is burned to death in Nigeria in endless cycle of violence against Christians

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In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na’Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan was burned to death on Sept. 7 when a terrorist group called Fulani herdsmen attacked the rectory at St. Raphael Church in Fadan Kamantan.

A file photo shows a patient on a ventilator. The Anscombe Bioethics Center, an Oxford-based institute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland, criticized the Court of Protection Sept. 4, 2023, for its late August ruling that denies an "alert and conscious" teenager on a ventilator the legal right to fight a move to put her in end-of-life care against her will.

UK teenager wants to fight for her life, but court denies her wish

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A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an "alert and conscious" teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.

Shoppers at a supermarket in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, find shelves lacking items amid a regional food shortage. The shortage is the result of a blockade in the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.

Armenian Catholic Church calls for prayers to stop genocide

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Local Canadian Armenians with loved ones in the land-locked territory of Artsakh, are rallying to galvanize the international community over what experts, activists and residents identify as an unfolding genocide.

University of North Carolina students make their way across campus in Chapel Hil March 28, 2023. Amid an Aug. 28 shooting at the campus, two Catholic communities relied on faith and prudent security and mental health awareness plans.

Catholic parishes relied on faith, prudent planning during university shooting

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Two North Carolina pastors told OSV News their parish security plans were put to a real-life test when an active shooting unfolded nearby -- and safety and mental health ministries are serving as a model for other churches, said lay leaders.

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick wears a mask during arraignment at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. A Massachusetts judge dismissed a criminal case against the former cardinal Aug. 30, 2023, ruling the disgraced cleric no longer has the cognitive capacity to stand trial.

Judge dismisses criminal abuse charges against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick

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The Massachusetts sex abuse case against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick fell apart Wednesday as all criminal charges were dismissed due to the disgraced former cleric being deemed no longer mentally competent.

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