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Pope Francis responds to questions from journalists during his flight from Hungary back to Rome April 30, 2023.

Kremlin, Ukraine deny working with Vatican on peace talks

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Moscow is not working with the Vatican to end the war in Ukraine, said a Kremlin spokesperson.

Kenyan authorities continue to retrieve bodies from shallow graves April 27, 2023, on an 800-acre ranch in Kilifi County. On May 1, 2023, the official death toll had reached 110. All victims were followers of the Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie, who told his followers to pray and fast to meet Jesus and they starved to death. Most of the bodies found so far are children's remains. Authorities suspect some may have been killed.

Most victims of mass cult starvation in Kenya are children

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As the death toll in what is becoming known as the "Shakahola starvation massacre" in Kenya hit 110, religious leaders in the region are finding that the majority of victims are children. They also suspect that not all of the victims died from starvation.

Pope Francis greets well-wishers as he arrives at the international airport in Budapest, Hungary, April 28, 2023. The pope was beginning a three-day trip to Hungary's capital.

Pope Francis arrives in Hungary preaching cooperation, welcome

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Paying homage to Hungary's history, culture and location in the heart of Europe, Pope Francis pushed against the notion that the country needed to insulate itself to protect its identity.

Kenyan authorities continue to retrieve bodies from shallow graves in the 800-acre ranch in Kilifi County near the town of Malindi. On April 27, 2023, the official death toll was 95. All victims were followers of the Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie. He told his followers to pray and fast to meet Jesus and that the world would end April 15. They starved to death.

Shocking cult starvation massacre in Kenya leaves 95 dead, hundreds missing

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Catholic bishops in Kenya have expressed shock and strongly condemned the mass "starvation suicide" in Shakahola, a remote forest-ranch area in eastern Kenya, where a pastor led congregants to fast to death.

The upcoming Synod on Synodality has theologians like, from bottom left, Fr. Darren Dias, Moira McQueen and Sr. Nathalie Becquart excited, for the field of theology and for the Church.

Synod is a theologian’s dream

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Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, is pictured in a file photo during a Vatican news conference Jan. 15, 2019.

Archbishop clarifies remarks on assisted suicide in Italy

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The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life affirms his opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide but believes that to end confusion in the country, the Italian Parliament needs to make clear laws about withdrawing end-of-life care, his office said.

Orthodox Christian worshippers hold candles around what is believed to be the tomb of Christ during the ancient Eastern rite ceremony of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2023.

Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter in the Holy Land with another year of Holy Fire restrictions

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Thousands of local and international Christian pilgrims thronged to Jerusalem's Old City and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the ancient Eastern rite ceremony of the Holy Fire April 15, with some scuffles reported as Israeli police restricted the number of people able to reach the church.

Israeli medics and police officers check a damaged car at the scene of a shooting attack, in the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 7, 2023. A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack.

Holy Land spirals into violence amid celebrations of Passover, Easter and Ramadan

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A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack in the Jordan valley on April 7, during a week that, instead of seeing the holidays of Passover, Easter and Ramadan celebrated in parallel peacefully, spiraled the region into violence.

Members of the Amhara Special Force are pictured in a file photo near the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Two Catholic Relief Service staff members, Chuol Tongyik, a security manager, and Amare Kindeya, a driver, were shot and killed in a CRS vehicle April 9, 2023, in the Amhara region as they were returning to Addis Ababa from an assignment.

Two Catholic Relief Services' workers slain in Ethiopia amid Easter Sunday unrest

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Two Catholic Relief Services staff members were shot and killed Easter Sunday in Ethiopia's Amhara region, according to the U.S. Catholic Church's international aid agency. Details of the murders are still unknown, CRS said April 10, but the incident comes amid several days of unrest and protests in the region after Ethiopia's federal government moved to dissolve paramilitary forces.

Members of the Syrian army, talking to a Franciscan priest from the Franciscan convent in the Syrian port city of Lattakia outside collapsed homes after the earthquake.

Quake worsens wide array of Syrian problems

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Already decimated by years of war, poverty and international sanctions, the last thing people in northwestern Syria needed was the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude that wreaked havoc in their country and southeastern Turkey nearly two months ago.

A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping hangs next to a crucifix on the wall of the house of a Tibetan Catholic on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, in China's Yunnan province, in this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo.

Bishop installed in Shanghai, apparently without Vatican agreement

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In an apparent breach of the Vatican's agreement with China on the appointment of bishops, the bishop of Haimen was installed as the bishop of Shanghai April 4.

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