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Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt shot dead in Syria.
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Frans van der Lugt, a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit who refused to leave war-torn Syria, was beaten by armed men and killed with two bullets to the head, according to a message sent from the Jesuits’ Middle East Province to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome on April 7. • Linda LeMura, named pres
MOTHER AND CHILD. Souad Mohamed, a Syrian refugee, with her her baby inside a tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, December 2013.
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The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon passed the one million mark on April 3.
COMMUNION. Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’malley at the border fence in Nogales, Ariz.
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While comprehensive immigration reform remains stalled in Congress, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined residents, migrants and advocates from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on April 1. There they celebrated Mass together, remembering thousands of migra
Venezuela's President Maduro talks with Archbishop Padron during meeting in Caracas.
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In a hard-hitting statement released on April 2, Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church accused President Nicolas Maduro’s government of “totalitarian” tendencies and “brutal repression” of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has resulted in the de
Marie Collins
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The clerical abuse survivor nominated by Pope Francis to sit on the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the commission needs to achieve concrete change in order to “show other survivors that the church is going to get it right.” Marie Collins, who as a 13-year-old
A Moro woman holds a flag of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front during a gathering in southern Philippines.
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Cardinal Quevedo praised the determination of negotiators for the rebels and government.