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Recovering from botched sterilizations
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Commenting on the deaths of 13 young mothers at government-run sterilization camps in India’s central Chhattisgarh State on Nov. 12, Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu said the guilty should be punished, but “the systemic faults behind this tragedy must be exposed and corrected.” &bull
RALLY POINT. Demonstrators at the White House on Nov. 2 ask for immediate relief for “aspiring” Americans.
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Obama administration moves on immigration were drawing attention and pre-emptive opposition from Republican lawmakers, who will soon control Congress when the lame duck session ends in January. President Barack Obama was poised in mid-November to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration t
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Catholic Relief Services committed an additional $1.5 million to programs aimed at countering Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in November. The money is being used to train heath workers, ensure safe and dignified burials, develop and implement prevention awareness campaigns, maintain local
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?
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.