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Fr. Jesus Alberto Franco wears two bracelets as reminders of the marginalized Colombian people.

Priest advocates for peace in Colombia

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Nobody has shot at Fr. Jesus Alberto Franco since Feb. 13, 2013. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the situation in Colombia is getting better.

U.S. president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama is expected to welcome Pope Francis to the White House on Sept. 23. They are pictured here with former pope Benedict XVI on July 10, 2009 at the Vatican.

President, first lady to welcome Pope Francis to White House Sept. 23

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome Pope Francis to the White House Sept. 23.

Guards surround the coffin of King Richard III as his remains lie in repose at Leicester Cathedral during the public viewing of his coffin in Leicester, England, March 23.

Richard III, Catholic king of England, reburied at Leicester Cathedral

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MANCHESTER, England - One of England's last Catholic kings was reburied three years after his skeleton was discovered in a coffin beneath a parking lot.

Faithful pray in front of the exposition of the Shroud of Turin in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, March 30 2013. Pope Francis will visit Turin to venerate the shroud June 21-22.

Pope's visit to Turin will highlight shroud, young people, marginalized

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will spend two days in Turin to venerate the Shroud of Turin; meet young people, workers, juvenile detainees, immigrants and the sick; and visit with his Italian relatives from northern Italy.

During the reinterment ceremony of King Richard III, the coffin goes around the center of Leicester. Here, the funeral procession goes past the Clocktower.

Catholics and Anglicans prepare ecumenical burial fit for a king

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CANTERBURY, England - Tens of thousands of people in Leicester — England’s most religiously diverse city — are getting ready to honour the memory of a long-despised English king with a ceremony that testifies to the already warm relationship between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama presents relief material to internally displaced persons in Jos, Nigeria, Jan. 20. Many now flee to neighboring Cameroon to escape Boko Haram attacks.

Nigerian bishops visit refugees in Cameroon who fled Boko Haram

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LAGOS, Nigeria - A delegation representing Catholic organizations in Nigeria offered words of comfort and pledged help for Nigerian refugees who fled to neighbouring Cameroon because of a violent insurgency.

Students at St. Martin de Porres School in Hinche, Haiti, are seen Feb. 13 during Carnival activities at the school.

Church leaders, agencies see education as key to Haiti's future

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Bishop Launay Saturne of Jacmel has a simple vision that he believes could change the future of Haiti.

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson’s 1988 excommunication from the Catholic church. On Mar. 19, 2015, Williamson was excommunicated automatically for ordaining a bishop without papal approval, Fr. Jean-Michel Faure, who was also excommunicated. In this 2008 photo, Williamson is seen in a church in Stockholm, Sweden.

SSPX bishop excommunicated — again — for illicit ordination

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A traditionalist bishop who has denied the Holocaust has been automatically excommunicated along with the priest he illicitly ordained a bishop.

A man carries the body of a child after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus Feb. 5.

Patriarch rejects calls for outside military intervention in Syria

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VATICAN CITY - The head of the Melkite Catholic Church rejected outright all calls for an international military intervention in Syria and urged Pope Francis and all Christian churches to "promote a concrete and realistic road map" to peace in the beleaguered nation.

A student tapes her mouth shut during a March 16 candlelight vigil for an elderly nun who was raped in Ranaghat, India.

Blind students among thousands protesting rape of elderly nun in India

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BHUBANESWAR, India - Students at a Hindu-run school for the blind joined a nationwide outcry over the gang rape of a 74-year-old Catholic nun.

Syrian children play at a makeshift settlement in Bar Elias, Lebanon, March 15, 2015.

Syrian children risk becoming 'lost generation,' Vatican official says to United Nations

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VATICAN CITY - Without family, a legal identity and adequate education, children uprooted by the ongoing violence in Syria and the Middle East "are at risk of becoming a lost generation," said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.

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