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In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom, gather for a group photo after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Rachel Zoll - Associated Press
Despite this surge of goodwill, questions remain about whether these new connections can endure.
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Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The invitation came amid increasingly closer relations between the Vatican and al-Azhar University, which is considered the most authoritative theological-academic institution of Sunni Islam.
Pope Francis, right, and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican, on March 20, 2017. (Tony Gentile/Pool photo via AP)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis asked God's forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests and religious.
U.S. President Donald Trump chats with students from St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Fla., on March 3. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also joined the president. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
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Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Currently, 27 states and the District of Columbia have some type of school choice measure in place and several states have legislation on the table for it this year.
In this May 30, 2016 file photo, police work the scene where a man was fatally shot in the chest in Chicago (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via AP).
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Judith Valente
In a five page “open letter,” Zachary Fardon traced problems in the city’s most troubled neighborhoods to neglect “rooted in ugly truths about power politics, race and racism.
St. Patrick is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, N.Y. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, said that "as Irish people, we cannot think of St. Patrick without acknowledging the enormous humanitarian and pastoral challenges facing growing numbers of people who find themselves displaced and without status in our world." (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Catholic News Service
"Let us think about Patrick the 'unlearned refugee' (as he once described himself), the slave in exile, Patrick the undocumented migrant."