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Be not afraid, because God is always near, pope says
Pope Francis blesses a baby during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan....
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Cardinal urges restraint as retaliatory attacks ignite after killings of South Sudanese refugees
Women who fled the war-torn Sudan following the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support...
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Trump administration reverses policy to permit ICE arrests at churches
Migrant farmworkers attend an outdoor Mass Sept. 26, 2019, in Hatch, N.M. The Trump administration said Jan. 21, 2025, that...
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Trump’s Day 1 includes executive orders on birthright citizenship
U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington Jan....
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Wisdom, strength, humility focus of Inauguration Day prayers for President Trump
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan delivers the invocation during U.S. President Donald Trump’s swearing-in as the 47th U.S. president...
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As ceasefire starts, first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners return home
Released Israeli hostage Romi Gonen embraces loved ones at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan. 19, 2025, after...
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Gaza ceasefire an “encouraging sign of peace” for the Middle East
Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the St. Louis-based Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles and Baltimore...
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Dialogue, listening and the power of prayer key to Christian unity
Pope Francis greets Episcopalian Bishop John Bauerschmidt of Tennessee and Romanian Catholic Bishop John M Botean of the Eparchy of...
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US declares genocide in Sudan as country undergoes “unimaginable” suffering
Supporters of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the military council and head of the paramilitary Rapid Support...
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Celebrity food trucks and prayers: Pasadena’s fire refugees get help in many forms
A volunteer sorts through donated clothing in the gymnasium of Assumption of the Virgin Mary School in Pasadena, Calif., Jan....
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