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Pope Francis Holds Private Talks With President of Venezuela

Pope Francis Holds Private Talks With President of Venezuela

(NPR) Pope Francis met with the president of Venezuela on Monday for a private conversation [...]

Vatican Issues New Rules On Cremation

Vatican Issues New Rules On Cremation

Rome (CNN)The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but may not have their [...]

Hillary Clinton Praises Pope Francis and Jesuits at Al Smith Dinner

Hillary Clinton Praises Pope Francis and Jesuits at Al Smith Dinner

The Alfred. E. Smith Foundation Dinner is an institution in New York. The annual white-tie event [...]

Missionaries Abducted and Murdered. Churches Burned Down

Missionaries Abducted and Murdered. Churches Burned Down

  By Rodrigo Arantes of Aid to the Church in Need Missionaries abducted and murdered; their church [...]

Iraqi Christians Rejoice Over Liberation of Qaraqosh

Iraqi Christians Rejoice Over Liberation of Qaraqosh

Qaraqosh, a formerly major Christian town on Iraq"€™s Nineveh Plain, has been liberated as part [...]

National Parks: Places of Spiritual Refuge

National Parks: Places of Spiritual Refuge

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- From the dramatic vistas of the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the glistening [...]

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Travel companions

A Reflection by Pope Benedict XIII My first close personal contact with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was [...]

Syria: Church Leaders Bring Children’s Call for Peace to European Leaders

Syria: Church Leaders Bring Children’s Call for Peace to European Leaders

Acting as "€œAmbassadors of the Children,"€ three prominent Syrian Church leaders"€”Patriarch Gregorios III, the head [...]

Catholic Charities, Begin Helping Storm Victims

Catholic Charities, Begin Helping Storm Victims

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic Charities agencies joined emergency response efforts in coastal communities in four [...]

Pope Entrusts Haiti to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Pope Entrusts Haiti to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

The Pope’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has sent a telegram on behalf of [...]

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