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HEADING UP OR DOWN? A Way of the Cross procession in Gonçalves, Brazil. Home to the largest Catholic population on earth, Brazil will no longer have a Catholic majority by 2030.
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Is the “Francis effect” slowing the diminishment of Latin America’s Catholic population?
Nun marches with mourners before the arrival of body of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Mthatha.
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Anthony Egan, S.J.
South Africa’s Parliamentary portfolio committee on justice and correctional service heard that the Office of the Public Protector, the constitutionally created watchdog on public affairs oversight, was insolvent. According to reports, the office’s assets were valued at just under R1 mil
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As world leaders prepared to meet in Australia on Nov. 15-16 to continue looking at ways to improve the global economy, Pope Francis asked them “not to forget that many lives are at stake” behind their discussions and decisions. The measure of success of the Group of 20 heavily industria
NOCHE DE LOS MUERTOS. Demonstrators demanded justice for 43 missing students in Mexico City on Nov. 8. The sign reads “Ayotzinapa, state terrorism”
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Ecumenical Day of Solidarity feeds 'hope against apathy, fear, death and impunity.'
FOND FAREWELL. Mark Hallinan, S.J., greets parishioners at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Staten Island on Nov. 2, one of more than 30 churches that will close by August 2015.
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First there was dead silence and then there were tears.That is how the Rev. Robert J. Verrigni described the reaction of parishioners at St. Ursula in Mount Vernon, N.Y., to the announcement on Nov. 2 that their parish would merge with another and cease to celebrate weekly Masses after Aug. 1, 2015.
Refugees flee Mosul, set up camp near Irbil (CNS photo/Stringer, EPA) (June 13, 2014)
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According to data collected in October by the Chaldean Diocese of Erbil, there are more than 10,000 Christian families who have found refuge in the suburbs of Erbil and other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan after fleeing Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plain before the advance of Islamic State militant