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Peace Offensive: Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga and Imam Omar Kobine Layama tour a church on the outskirts of Bangui in mid-December in an effort to promote tolerance and reconciliation.
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United Nations peacekeepers and officials struggled to contain two ongoing crises in Africa as the New Year began. Hastily arranged peace talks to end the sudden conflict in South Sudan began in Ethiopia as the world’s newest nation sank deeper into a de facto civil war. Meanwhile, in the neig
Vatican Tourism Boom
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In the first nine-and-a-half months of Pope Francis’ pontificate, more than 6.6 million people participated in papal events at the Vatican—three times the number who visited during all of 2012. • Antonios Aziz Mina, the Coptic Catholic bishop of Giza, Egypt, said terrorist attacks w
People hold a banner and signs on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta during a vigil for death-row inmate Troy Davis before his Sept. 21 execution. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin)
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In 2013 the use of the death penalty continued its steady decline by almost every measure, according to a report released in December by the Death Penalty Information Center. Executions in the United States dropped by about 10 percent from 2012, to 39 from 43, marking only the second time in the pas
BUDGET PRIORITIES: Getting down to business at the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., in June.
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The bishops and others advocated for a “circle of protection” around poverty programs.
Boy displaced by conflict peers through fence in contested Sudanese border region. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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As fighting continued in Juba, the capital city of South Sudan, and spread to other Sudanese cities, Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian leaders urged reconciliation and offered to serve as mediators in the conflict. Thousands have fled to the presumed safety of U.N. compounds after street fighting
Archbishop Louis Sako of Baghdad, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, spoke Dec. 14 in Rome about the status of Christians in the Middle East. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Fighting in the Middle East creates openings for extremist and threatens tolerance of Christians.