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A Palestinian throws a stone at Israeli troops during clashes in Bethlehem, West Bank, Oct. 5.

Unrest flares again in West Bank, Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM - Unrest flared in early October throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem, which has experienced tensions during September, largely over the status of the contested holy site of the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif.

Umpqua Community College alumna Donice Smith, left, is embraced after learning one of her former teachers was killed in Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 1.

Anti-Christian animus said to be behind Oregon college shooting spree

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ROSEBURG, Ore. - The gunman behind the Oct. 1 massacre at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg reportedly asked students whether they were Christian.

California Gov. Jerry Brown

California governor faces final call on right-to-die bill

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California Gov. Jerry Brown has until midnight Oct. 7 to sign or veto a controversial bill that would legalize physician-assisted dying in the United States’ most populous state.

In this July 27, 2014, file photo, a French soldier stands guard at St. Joseph Cathedral in Bambari, Central African Republic.

Central African archbishop to continue peace mission, despite violence

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OXFORD, England - An archbishop in the Central African Republic has vowed to continue an interfaith peace mission, after new communal violence left at least 36 dead two months before a planned visit by the Pope.

Israeli heavy equipment loads an olive tree after it was uprooted to to make way for the controversial separation barrier in the Cremisan Valley in Beit Jalla, West Bank, Sept. 3.

Harper called on to help find solution for Palestinan farmers cut off by security wall

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OTTAWA - Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, in one of his last duties as president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has asked the prime minister to use his influence with Israel to prevent its security wall from cutting off Palestinian families from their farmland.

Silence and indifference to migrant crisis lead to complicity, Pope says

Silence and indifference to migrant crisis lead to complicity, Pope says

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VATICAN CITY - Indifference to the crises and tragedies today's migrants and refugees are facing lead to complicity when people remain silent or refuse to act, Pope Francis said.

Kim Davis, a Rowan County, Ky., clerk, celebrates her release Sept. 8 from the Carter County Detention center in Grayson, Ky. The Vatican Sept. 30 did not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope Francis briefly met with Davis, who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Vatican confirms Pope met Kentucky clerk, won't comment further

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VATICAN CITY - The Vatican does not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope Francis briefly met with Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses.

A mineworker in Chudja, Congo, shows a small piece of gold found after water processing in this June 2009 file photo. Congo’s Catholic bishops criticized the failure of Wester governments to stop the abuse of Congo’s natural resources.

Church in Congo criticizes West for failing to stop abuse of resources

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OXFORD, England - Congo's Catholic bishops criticized the failure of Western governments to stop the abuse of the continent's natural resources and urged church groups to follow the pope's call to mobilize.

Fr. Miguel Rodriguez sets a relic on the tomb of Junipero Serra during Mass at the Carmel Mission Basilica in Carmel, Calif., Sept. 23, the day the Spanish missionary and founder of the California mission system was declared a saint by Pope Francis in Washington.

Statue of St. Junipero Serra defaced at California's Carmel Mission

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CARMEL, Calif. - Days after St. Junipero Serra was canonized by Pope Francis in Washington, a statue of the 18th-century Franciscan missionary and other property at the Carmel Mission where the saint is buried were defaced.

Director of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, Michele Boulva.

COLF director tells of divorce, annulment experience at families meeting

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PHILADELPHIA - As the director of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, Michele Boulva is well-known in the Canadian Catholic Church. Yet at the World Meeting of Families Sept. 23, she mentioned something she had never told publicly before.

Young men sing the Burkinabe national anthem as they protest the military coup in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sept. 22.

Burkina Faso bishops call for elections, denounce military coup

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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Bishops in Burkina Faso, one of Africa's most Catholic countries, have denounced a Sept. 16 military coup and demanded that democratic elections proceed as planned.

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