“My Catholic faith is very important to me...It is part of who I am and I feel comfortable practicing my faith."

Total admissions for the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, now come to about 7,900, and the vast majority of them are Sunni Muslims.

Daly became a hero by administering last rites to victims on the streets amid the mayhem of the Catholic Bogside district.

The commission's statement—released on the second anniversary of the initial IS attack on the Sinjar area in Iraq—urged action to prevent further death and suffering.

Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan dismissed Western policy regarding the Syrian civil war as Machiavellian and hypocritical, driven by global strategic interests and the price of oil.

Seminarian Brian Bergkamp had been missing since he saved the life of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River on July 9.