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An activist is pictured in front of the Monument to Memory and Truth at Cuscatlan Park in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 16, 2021, during a protest to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended El Salvador's civil war.

Cardinal: 'devil is running loose' in El Salvador

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CHALATENANGO, El Salvador -- Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez asked the country to pray "for liberation from Satan" Feb. 1 after violence erupted following a political rally late Jan. 31 in the capital, San Salvador.

Demonstrators protest euthanasia in front of the parliament in Lisbon, Portugal, May 29, 2018.

Portuguese bishops criticize euthanasia legislation

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LISBON, Portugal -- Bishops in Portugal criticized legislation that would allow euthanasia and assisted suicide and said their "sadness and indignation" were compounded "by a form of death being legalized during the great aggravation of a deadly pandemic, when we are all striving to save the greatest number of lives."

Catholic World Report Twitter account locked over tweet about Biden nominee

Catholic World Report Twitter account locked over tweet about Biden nominee

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The editors at a Catholic publication said they are uncertain why an automated social media post was deemed hateful and led their Twitter account to be locked.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers has retired and will be the new head football coach at a Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of Mobile, Ala.

Star QB retires on feast of athletes’ patron

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FAIRHOPE, Ala. -- After 17 seasons in the NFL, quarterback Philip Rivers will begin his next career as head football coach at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope in the Mobile, Ala., archdiocese.

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington Jan. 25, 2021.

Bishops, other pro-life leaders decry Biden action ending 'Mexico City policy'

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WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life and international policy committees said President Joe Biden's memo rescinding the so-called "Mexico City policy" Jan. 28 is a "grievous" action that "actively promotes the destruction of human lives in developing nations."

Mourners gather near the coffin of a man killed in a twin suicide bombing attack in a central Baghdad market during a funeral in Najaf, Iraq, Jan. 21. Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said Iraqis are still counting on Pope Francis to visit in March.

Violence-stricken Iraq counts on Pope

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VATICAN CITY -- In the midst of three days of prayer and fasting for peace and an end to the coronavirus pandemic, Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said Iraqis still are counting on Pope Francis to visit in March.

Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, pictured in a screenshot from a video, has been incarcerated in an Indian jail since his Oct. 9, 2020. Father Swamy marked his 100 days in prison with a letter highlighting the cases of poor people languishing in jail who begin their trials without even knowing their criminal charges.

Jailed Jesuit Fr. Swarmy writes of Indians awaiting trial without knowing charges

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MUMBAI, India — Indian Jesuit Father Stan Swamy marked 100 days in prison with a letter highlighting the cases of poor people languishing in jail who begin their trials without even knowing their criminal charges.

Adalia Reyes, an asylum-seeker from El Salvador, poses with a friend's child outside a Mass celebrated Jan. 9, 2021, in a tent camp for migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros. Reyes said, out of desperation, she sent her two children unaccompanied to the United States, where they were reunited with their father.

Asylum-seekers along Mexican border putting their hope in Joe Biden

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MATAMOROS, Mexico — Idalia Reyes remembers the desperation that drove her to seek out smugglers to take her children, unaccompanied, to the United States. Reyes and her children lived in a tent camp along the Rio Grande, where they endured crime, cold snaps and infestations of insects and snakes.

Amanda Gorman recites a poem at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2021, during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Los Angeles.

Poet Amanda Gorman is a light to us all, parishioner says

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WASHINGTON — Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the parish.

Firefighters work after a deadly explosion at the parish center of the Church of Our Lady of La Paloma in downtown Madrid Jan. 20, 2021. A priest and a member of the parish were among four killed in the explosion, which was caused by a gas leak.

Priest, parishioner among casualties in Madrid explosion

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VATICAN CITY -- A young priest ordained only six months ago was among the casualties of an explosion at a parish center in Madrid.

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States as his wife, Jill Biden, holds a Bible on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2021.

Second Catholic president causes some to celebrate, gives others anxiety

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WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden became the second Catholic to be inaugurated as president of the United States Jan. 20, giving some U.S. Catholics and their religious leaders a reason to rejoice and others to fear more access to abortion under his leadership.

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