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A protesters holds a sign saying "No to Communism" during a rally against Colombian President Gustavo Petro's security policies in Bogotá July 19, 2023.

In Colombia, priests and lay workers will help monitor ceasefire

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The Colombian bishops' conference has welcomed the beginning of a six-month ceasefire between the nation's military and the largest remaining rebel group in the country, and began to train dozens of priests and lay workers from different parts of the country on how to help monitor the truce.

The shells of burned cars are pictured amid the ruins of homes in the ravaged town of Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui Aug.15, 2023. Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva is urging the faithful of the diocese to "come together and provide unwavering support" to those who have lost everything in the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina and damaged other communities Aug. 8 and 9.

'Miraculous' survival of Maui Catholic church seen as sign of hope amid wildfire destruction

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"For us, it's like a miracle," Msgr. Terrence Watanabe, the Honolulu Diocese's vicar of Maui and Lanai, said about Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in the town of Lahaina being seemingly untouched by the fierce Maui wildfires Aug. 8-9.

Ottawa teacher facing sexual assault charges

Ottawa teacher facing sexual assault charges

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An Ottawa Catholic District School Board teacher was arrested Aug. 10 and charged with five counts of sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

Smoke and flames rise in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui Aug. 8, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media.

Catholics appeal for help as Biden declares Maui's deadly fires a federal emergency

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Catholic Charities Hawai'i in the Honolulu Diocese has appealed for donations to help the agency meet housing, food and other needs of what could be thousands of victims from wildfires raging on the island of Maui that wiped out an entire town and drove people to seek refuge in the ocean.

A man holds a placard while shouting slogans in support of Pakistan’s blasphemy law in this CNS file photo. Catholics and other non-Muslims in the Muslim world are in fear of reprisal after two Koran burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark.

Catholics in fear following Koran burnings

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It’s a burning issue from Sweden and Denmark to Iraq and Pakistan. Two Koran-burning incidents by individuals in the two Scandinavian countries have ignited furious reactions in Iraq, Pakistan and much of the Muslim world, leaving Christian minorities there even more vulnerable to extremist hatred.

Ottawa Madonna House mission to close

Ottawa Madonna House mission to close

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After nearly 50 years serving as a cellphone-free refuge for prayer and silence in the centre of Ottawa, a mission house of the Madonna House Apostolate is closing its doors.

Fr. Stephan Kappler, president and chief psychologist at Southdown.

Southdown to launch program for clergy on discerning boundaries

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Following a 50-country conference on safeguarding against clerical sexual abuse, Southdown Institute’s Fr. Stephen Kappler is launching a pilot project this month to train clergy on boundaries, abuse of spiritual power and healthy integrated sexuality.

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay, Ont., has for years been producing graduates well-versed in the Catholic faith, but it is also gaining a reputation for producing priests and religious.

Ontario Catholic college a vocations’ breeding ground

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Nine priests. Four professed religious sisters. Four seminarians. Three novitiates. Two transitional deacons. One sister poised to profess her final vows.

Providence Hospital in Kingston, Ont., has hired a MAiD proponent as its interim head of palliative care.

Providence palliative director a MAiD provider

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The appointment of a Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) provider as Interim Clinical Director of Palliative Care at a Catholic hospital in Ontario has provoked renewed concern about the future of Catholic health care in Canada.

An offering is seen at the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School in the wake of thousands of alleged unmarked graves found at former residential schools across Canada in 2001. Calgary Bishop Emeritus Fred Henry has challenged his brother bishops to demand proof of the thousands of residential school children alleged to have gone missing in the Indian residential school system.

Bishop demands ‘proof’ for missing children claims

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As he lay in a Calgary hospital bed in late July, retired Bishop Fred Henry summoned the energy to publicly break the silence around what he considers the prevailing “lie” about missing Indian residential school children.

Archbishop Marcel Gervais is pictured in a 2004 file photo.

Ottawa Archbishop Emeritus Gervais dies at 91

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Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais, who shepherded the bilingual diocese covering Canada’s capital from 1989 to 2007, died Aug. 6, Ottawa-Cornwall Archbishop Emeritus Terrence Prendergast announced in an Instagram post.

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