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Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to U.S. agencies in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council that more than 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith, and millions more face bigotry, intolerance and marginalization because of their beliefs.

Vatican officials decry persecution of Christians around the world

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GENEVA - More than 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith, and millions more face bigotry, intolerance and marginalization because of their beliefs, a Vatican official said.

Bomb experts from the military secure the scene of an explosion at St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania, dated May 5. The head of the Tanzanian bishops' conference, Bishop Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa, warned of a growing threat from militant Ilamists.

Tanzanian bishops' head warns of growing threat from militant Islamists

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OXFORD, England - The head of the Tanzanian bishops' conference warned of a growing threat from militant Islamists and urged police and government to act more forcefully against violence and intimidation.

Father Scott Carroll, 46, lost his battle with cancer May 10, just two days after Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio, ordained him a priest at the family home in Maumee. Father Carroll is pictured in a 2012 photo.

Being priest was 'everything' to man ordained two days before he died

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MAUMEE, Ohio - Ordination "meant everything" to Fr. Scott R. Carroll.

Julia Mozheyko and Sivan Arbel, two Jewish students who designed a Catholic church for their architecture class at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

Young architects explore the sacred, secular

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TORONTO - Those who have come to believe secular universities are phobic about the sacred, allergic to transcendence, divorced from the spiritual, God-free zones have not encountered Ryerson University Associate Professor of Architecture Ed Wojs.

Fr. Alphonse de Valk

Rights league to honour Fr. de Valk

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Updated 05/27/13

TORONTO - The Catholic Civil Rights League has chosen pro-life activist, writer and editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk, CSB, as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is scheduled to open in 2014.

Human rights museum in the wrong, say Ukrainians

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Members of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress are demanding that the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights more fully recognize abuses suffered by Ukrainians in Canada and in the former Soviet Union.

Principal David Hogan and Grade 2 teacher Donna Paterson, along with her student Alex, outside Holy Name Catholic School as they await the school’s May 25 centenary celebration.

100 years of memories at Holy Name

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TORONTO - Ellen McIntrye fell in love with Holy Name Catholic School after she enrolled her daughter for kindergarten there in the 1980s. Today she’s teaching Grade 8 at Holy Name and looking forward to the east-end school’s 100th anniversary.

John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout and founder of OnMyHonor.Net, a coalition opposed to allowing open homosexuality in the Boy Scouts of America, addresses the media May 23 in Grapevine, Texas, after the Scouts voted on allowing openly gay members to join t he Boy Scouts of America May 23 .

U.S. Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths to belong to Scout troops

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GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted late May 23 to allow openly gay youths admittance as members into the 103-year-old organization, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

The Knights of Malta, a 900- year-old lay Catholic order, is trying to take the heat off Kilis’s municipal hospital by opening up a field hospital in shipping containers nearby.

Knights of Malta open field hospital to aid Syrians

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When bombs fall in the Syrian city of Aleppo, it’s bad news for the municipal hospital in Kilis, Turkey. The Turkish border town of 80,000 has taken in 35,000 Syrian refugees from Syria’s civil war — the majority suffering physical and psychological trauma.

Hayat Shao gives her son Jamil Makhoo, an Iraqi refugee, a hug for the first time in 13 years.

Iraqi family sponsored by Cardinal Collins reunites in Toronto

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TORONTO - Though it took a few hours longer than expected, six members of the Makhoo family — Iraqi refugees sponsored by Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins — finally arrived in Canada May 23.

Trustee Garry Tanuan, pictured, moved the motion to ignore the year-old Accepting Schools Act at the May 23 Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting. Trustees with the Toronto Catholic District School Board voted 7-4 against the motion.

Toronto Catholic board rejects ban on GSAs

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TORONTO - An attempt to ban gay-straight alliances in Toronto Catholic schools has failed.

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