"We're looking for the most focused ways the parish can support the rebuilding, both financially as well as material support."

His life and death underscored the suffering of Aleppans, whose city was once the commercial center of Syria with a thriving, unique culture but has now been torn to pieces by fighting.

French television broadcast scenes of interfaith solidarity from all around France, with Muslim women in headscarves and Jewish men in kippot crowding the front rows of Catholic cathedrals.

The Catholic Church in Veracruz had lobbied for the abortion ban and welcomed its approval.

"A child less than 10 years old ran to me shouting, 'Sir, please put my arm back.' His left arm was amputated and he held it with his right hand."

"Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart," Clinton said.