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Pope Francis greets young people after celebrating Mass with youths Nov. 30 at St. Mary's Cathedral in Yangon, Myanmar. Foreign trips, a focus on the rights and needs of migrants and refugees and a Synod of Bishops dedicated to young people all are on the 2018 calendar for Pope Francis. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis, newly 81, will begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and on migrants and refugees.
Chaldean Christians in Mosul, Iraq, attend Christmas Mass at St. Paul Cathedral Dec. 24. (CNS photo/Amar Salih, EPA)
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Catholic News Service
The Iraqi national anthem opened the Mass as women wailed with emotion.
A man dressed as Santa is seen in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 24. Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East called for peace, security, prayer and solidarity at Christmastime.
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Doreen Abi Raad - Catholic News Service
“This is our homeland and we insist (we) remain here.”
Bishop Thanh Thai Nguyen is seen in this undated photo. He entered the country as a young refugee from Vietnam in 1973. (CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of St. Augustine)
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Bishop Nguyen was forced to flee his native country as a seminarian, spending 18 days at sea without food or water.
In this Aug. 10, 2017 file photo, construction workers adjust a temporary cross on the St. Nicholas National Shrine in New York. Work on the Greek Orthodox church destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks next to the World Trade Center memorial plaza has been temporarily suspended by the construction company. It comes amid financial difficulties and questions over how funds have been managed. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Colleen Long - Associated Press
The St. Nicholas National Shrine next to the World Trade Center memorial plaza was to replace a tiny church obliterated when the trade center's south tower fell in 2001.
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Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
In Europe, Christmas is being stripped of its true nature "in the name of a false respect for those who are not Christian."