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A residence hall formerly named for Flannery O'Connor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore is seen in this undated photo. It is being renamed for Sister Thea Bowman.

Loyola University Maryland removes Flannery O'Connor's name from hall

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BALTIMORE -- Thirteen years after naming a new residence hall at Loyola University Maryland in honor of the Catholic author Flannery O'Connor, Jesuit Father Brian Linnane, the university's president, removed the writer's name from the building.

A man in Athens, Greece, has a chain wrapped around his wrists in this photo illustration.

Caritas warns of rise in human trafficking

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VATICAN CITY -- As governments and world leaders struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, they must also work harder to protect victims of human trafficking, said the Vatican-based international network of Catholic charities.

Refugees in Lacolle, Que., sit outside one of the tents set up to house the influx of asylum-seekers near the U.S. border in 2017.

Refugee advocates declare victory

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Refugee advocates are applauding a Federal Court ruling that Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by sending refugees who arrive at Canadian land borders back to detention in the United States.

A German photo illustration shows tools used in euthanasia. On July 27, 2020, a court in Italy acquitted two "right-to-die" activists who aided in the suicide of a person suffering from multiple sclerosis, which may force the Italian government to legalize assisted suicide in the country.

Controversial verdict may force legalization of assisted suicide in Italy

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ROME -- The acquittal of two "right-to-die" activists who aided in the suicide of a person suffering from multiple sclerosis may force the Italian government to legalize assisted suicide in the country.

Worshippers attend afternoon prayer at Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul July 26, 2020. Hagia Sophia was built as an Orthodox Christian cathedral and stood as the seat of Eastern Christianity for a thousand years before Ottoman Turks conquered its host city and turned it into a mosque in 1453. In 1934, it was designated as a museum revered as a symbol of Christian and Muslim unity until being transformed into a mosque this July.

Some Christians see Turkey's Hagia Sophia move as attempt to expand Islam

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AMMAN, Jordan -- Catholics and other Christians are upset by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conversion of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a functioning mosque where Muslim Friday prayers were recited recently.

Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., and others students from the school stand in front of Native American Nathan Phillips near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in this still image from video Jan. 18, 2019. The Washington Post settled a defamation lawsuit July 24, 2020, filed by his parents Ted and Julie Sandmann.

Washington Post settles defamation lawsuit with Covington Catholic student

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WASHINGTON -- The Washington Post reached a settlement July 24 with the family of Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky Catholic high school student who sued the newspaper last year for defamation over its coverage of an incident that occurred after last year's March for Life that quickly went viral.

Debris caused by a fire inside the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Nantes, France, is seen July 19, 2020. French police have charged a cathedral volunteer with "destruction and damage by fire" in connection to the blaze.

Cathedral volunteer charged with arson for Nantes fire

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NANTES, France -- A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral.

Bishop Broderick Pabillo, apostolic administrator of Manila, Philippines, is pictured in a 2015 photo. Bishop Pabillo announced July 23, 2020, that he had tested positive for COVID-19, appeared to be asymptomatic and was undergoing mandatory self-isolation.

Manila bishop tests positive for COVID-19, says he's asymptomatic

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MANILA, Philippines - Bishop Broderick Pabillo, Manila Archdiocese's apostolic administrator, has tested positive for COVID-19, making him the most prominent churchman in the Philippines to contract the disease.
African women work in Kuchinate, the African Women Refugee collective, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 14, 2020. The collective's work with asylum-seekers, supported by several Catholic charities, has become even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Catholic-supported co-op in Israel helps asylum-seekers during pandemic

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TEL AVIV, Israel - Inside Kuchinate, the African Women Refugee collective, women dropped off their completed sewing and crochet work, receiving new material to work on at home.
A small memorial for the 12 sisters who died in one month from COVID-19 sits in the garden outside the Felician sisters' convent in Livonia, Mich., June 10, 2020.

'Our most tragic time': Felician sisters bear loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19

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LIVONIA, Mich. - They were teachers. A librarian. A director of religious education. A secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The author of a 586-page history of the congregation.
Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, arrives in procession for a Mass of thanksgiving for Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 22, 2010. A new lawsuit against McCarrick, who was laicized in 2019, accuses him of managing a sex ring among seminarians, altar boys and priests at a New Jersey beach house.

New accusation surfaces against former U.S. prelate McCarrick

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WASHINGTON - A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate, leveling a new accusation that he allegedly abused its new client as a boy at a beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in the early 1980s.
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