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Draped in Ukrainian flags, Redemptorist Fathers Bohdan Geleta, left, and Ivan Levytsky, right, pose for a photo at the Kyiv airport in Ukraine June 29, 2024. To the far right is Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine.

Pope Francis praises release of two Ukrainian priests from Russian captivity

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Pope Francis prayed in thanksgiving for the release of two Ukrainian Catholic priests who were held in Russian captivity for more than 19 months, calling on Christians to pray for the release of all prisoners of war.

Demonstrators try to obstruct a police vehicle as police use water cannons to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Nairobi June 25, 2024, against Kenya's proposed finance bill to raise taxes. After Parliament passed the measure, it was sent to Kenyan President William Ruto for his signature or other action. In the face of chaos, Ruto rejected the bill June 26.

Kenya bishops plead for calm amid storming of parliament, deaths and injuries

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The Kenyan capital descended into chaos June 25 as protests over legislation dubbed a finance bill left several dead and dozens injured. The country's bishops called for peace and urged the president not to accede to the measure aimed at raising revenue by levying additional taxes.

Bishop David Waller, the first bishop of the London-based Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, speaks in Westminster Cathedral, London, at his June 22, 2024, episcopal ordination presided over by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

British bishop's historic ordination shows Rome's strong support for ordinariates' mission

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The first bishop of a special diocese in Great Britain created for Catholics of the Anglican tradition has welcomed the pope's show of support and predicted the fledgling Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will continue growing and strengthening.

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms will now be required to display the Ten Commandments by the start of 2025 as part of a new educational reform law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry June 19, 2024.

Louisiana public schools must post Ten Commandments, other historical documents

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Public school classrooms in Louisiana will now be required to display the Ten Commandments by the start of 2025 as part of a new educational reform law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry.

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo.

Vatican accuses former US nuncio Vigano of schism, begins trial

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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has begun an extrajudicial penal trial to determine if Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former nuncio to the United States, is guilty of schism, the archbishop said on social media.

The Vatican Apostolic Archives, pictured in this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, houses over 50 miles of papal letters, presidential missives and historical records. Some researchers speculate that they may also contain evidence of non-human intelligence, disguised as accounts of miracles.

Researchers believe Vatican archives hold UFO secrets

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A group of scientists and researchers is seeking access to the Vatican Apostolic Archives to uncover information about UFOs and the paranormal, believing there may be traces amid the 80 km of shelves holding everything from handwritten papal notes to presidential missives.

Children stand next to a burned vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the northern Iraq city of Mosul June 10, 2014. It has been 10 years since the fall of Mosul June 4-10, 2014, when Islamic State insurgents took over the city from the Iraqi army.

10 years after Islamic State group's bloody rampage, Iraq's displaced Christians still struggle

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For Iraqi Catholics, it's a date they will never forget. The takeover of Mosul by militants of the Islamic State group 10 years ago began their bloody and destructive rampage over the weeks that followed through the country's ancestral heartland which Christians called home for the past 16 centuries.

Pope Francis speaks to visitors in St. Peter's Square during his general audience at the Vatican June 5, 2024.

On D-Day anniversary, Pope Francis says attacking peace is a grave sin

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Marking 80 years since some 4,400 Allied troops "heroically gave their lives" to the cause of freedom by storming the beach in Normandy, D-Day commemorations remind the world that disrupting peace in pursuit of worldly interests is a grave sin, Pope Francis said.

Father Bohdan Geleta, left, and Father Ivan Levitsky are seen in this undated screen grab. The two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests seized by Russian forces from their church in Berdyansk in November 2022 are possibly in a Russian-operated labor camp in occupied Ukraine, according to a human rights information service.

Disappeared Ukrainian priests may be in Russian labor camp, says human rights researcher

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Two disappeared Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests seized by Russian forces from their church in Berdyansk in November 2022 are possibly in a Russian-operated labor camp in occupied Ukraine, according to a human rights information service.

U.S. reinforcements land on Omaha Beach during the Normandy D-Day landings near Vierville sur Mer, France, June 6, 1944.

D-Day's 80th anniversary honours the past, aims to teach future generations, French bishop says

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The Catholic Church in France prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Normandy landings June 6, a date known as D-Day that marked the beginning of the liberation of France and Europe from Nazi Germany's occupation during World War II.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, leaves the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall after a working session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops with Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 6, 2023.

Cardinal Parolin: Ukraine using NATO weapons to strike Russia risks escalation

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said allowing Ukraine to use NATO weapons to attack military targets in Russia would lead to "an escalation that no one will be able to control anymore."

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