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Members of the clergy enter York Minster before a service to consecrate the Rev. Libby Lane as the first female bishop in the Church of England, in York, northern England, on Jan. 26, 2015.

Report finds Church of England failed to deal with sex abuse by clergy

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CANTERBURY, England - The Church of England has promised to make far-reaching changes in dealing with future sex abuse cases after the publication of the first independent review commissioned by the country’s established church into its handling of such cases in the past.

Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui, second from right, and her lawyer Laura Sgro, second from left, arrive for the so-called "Vatileaks" trial at the Vatican March 14. Chaouqui is one of five people on trial for leaking confidential Vatican documents that were published in two books.

At Vatican trial, official says he felt threatened to release documents

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VATICAN CITY - The secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See testified in a Vatican court that he felt he was being threatened and had little choice but to give confidential documents to two Italian reporters.

Refugees and migrants walk after disembarking from the passenger ferry Eleftherios Venizelos from the island of Lesbos at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, Dec 26, 2015.

Refugee fears ‘reasonable’: Archbishop of Canterbury

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CANTERBURY, England - Labelling people who are worried about mass migration into their country as racist is “absolutely outrageous,” Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby wrote in The House, a magazine read mainly by members of Parliament.

A child poses for a photo with his family in Al-Qaboon, Syria, Feb. 22. His father disappeared four years ago in the ongoing conflict.

UNICEF official warns no place is safe for Syria's children

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AMMAN, Jordan - As peace talks get underway in Geneva trying to end the 5-year-old war in Syria, the U.N. children's agency warned that more than 80 per cent of Syria's children have been harmed by the destructive conflict.

A dried rose hangs from the entrance gate to Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Poland. The Nazi regime annexed Oswiecim for the Third Reich in 1939 and renamed it Auschwitz. The main concentration and extermination camp established in 1940 was expanded to include Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) in 1941 and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz) in 1942.

Polish church unveils preliminary plan for Pope's July visit

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WARSAW, Poland - Pope Francis will visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau during a July 27-31 visit to Poland for the celebration of World Youth Day, the Polish bishops announced.

A man points at a village in rural South Sudan before the civil war. Most of the villages have been destroyed in the war.

Churches targeted in South Sudan civil war, says UN

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Churches and mosques have been centres of “searing” human rights abuses in South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging since 2013, according to a United Nations report.

Photographer Lisa Kristine gives a presentation at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., March 1, about her work photographing human trafficking around the world.

Photographer's life work to expose horrors of global human trafficking

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DE PERE, Wis. - Lisa Kristine was 11 when her aunt and uncle gave her an Olympus 35 mm camera. From a converted darkroom in her home in California, she developed black-and-white film and printed images of family and friends.

Young Muslims protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before being escorted out during a campaign rally in the Kansas Republican Caucus at the Century II Convention and Entertainment Center in Wichita, Kan., on March 5, 2016.

Trump is getting out the Muslim vote

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Salim Jaffer moved to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. His family, along with the rest of the Indian community, had been expelled from Uganda in 1972 under the violent dictator Idi Amin and sought a respite in America.

But he said he’s never felt in danger until this year.

Bishop Stephen Rotluanga of Aizawl, India, explains his cartoon on the conference to Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal in Bangalore March 9.

Indian bishops give self-critique, discuss issues of concern

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BANGALORE, India - Catholic bishops in India made some self-critical observations and also discussed moral decline and growing religious fundamentalism during their biennial assembly.

Children receive oxygen at a hospital in Taza, Iraq, March 9, after Islamic State militants fired mortar shells and rockets filled with "poisonous substances" into their village.

New report details 'genocide' by Islamic State against Christians, minorities

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The Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians contend that Christians in Libya, Iraq and Syria are victims of genocide carried out by the Islamic State in a new report.

Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, left, of Nigeria and Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya speak at a recent news conference in Nairobi. The two provinces are boycotting the meeting in Lusaka, Zambia.

African bishops to boycott meeting of Anglican council over Episcopal Church attendance

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NAIROBI, Kenya - The Anglican Church in Kenya has become the latest province to announce it will boycott the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Zambia over the participation of the Episcopal Church.

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