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Iraqi children look out a window as local tribe leaders meet with Iraqi and U.S. security forces near Muqtadiyah in Iraq's Diyala province in 2008. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters)
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Just a few days before news emerged that the city of Falluja in Iraq’s Anbar Province had fallen into Al Qaeda hands on Jan. 3, the Web site Iraqbodycount.com released its report on the annual death toll in Iraq. Its researchers found that 9,500 civilians died in violence in Iraq in 2013, the
A Free Syrian Army fighter walks inside a church in Aleppo, Syria, Nov. 4. (CNS photo/Molhem Barakat, Reuters)
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Fides, the Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, reports that 22 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide in 2013, almost double the number who were killed the year before. For the fifth consecutive year, Latin America had the highest number of such deaths. In 2013, 19 priests,
Palestinian civil defense volunteers paddle boat to evacuate people after flooding in Gaza Strip. (CNS photo/Mohammed Salem, Reuters)
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On Dec. 13 a federal judge granted Catholic organizations in the Archdiocese of New York and the neighboring Diocese of Rockville Centre a permanent injunction against the federal contraceptive mandate in the health care law. • In an escalating standoff, Catholic clergymen were taken away for q
SNOWFLAKES: A winter scene over a memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., on the first anniversary of the massacre there.
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Grass-roots groups have turned their efforts to state legislatures.
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.