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The families of the three people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing explosions a year ago marked the first anniversary with poignant remembrances and emotional testimonies.Prayer and a simple wreath-laying ceremony took place at the two sites where their loved ones lost their lives and scores wer
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Canada 39 s French- and English-speaking Jesuits plan to rejoin into a single Canadian province of the world 39 s largest Catholic religious order of men Father Peter Bisson provincial superior of the Jesuits in English Canada spoke about the plans at the annual Jesuit Provincial 39 s Dinner on
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The FBI labeled the killings a hate crime the day after the shootings.
Pilgrims carry palm and olive branches during the Palm Sunday procession last year on the Mount of Olives last year.
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Palestinian Christian institutions charged that Israeli police security measures during Holy Week and Easter hamper access by Christian pilgrims to holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City."The celebrations in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Christian Quarter have been co
Survivors of abuse demonstrate in Rome in 2010.
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"I feel called to take responsibility for all the evil some priests—large in number, but not in proportion to the total—have committed and to ask forgiveness for the damage they've done with the sexual abuse of children," Pope Francis said."The church is aware of this
Latin Patriarch Faoud Twal of Jerusalem leads an annual pilgrimage at a baptism site on the Jordan River on Jan. 10..
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A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in recent weeks as a two-year wave of vandalism directed at Christians and Muslims in Israel and the West Bank continued.In late March, anti-Christian and anti-American graffiti was scrawled on the walls of the
The aftermath of a raid on human traffickers in Barcelona, Spain.
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Meeting four victims of human trafficking, dozens of religious sisters and senior police chiefs from 20 countries, Pope Francis praised their coordinated efforts to fight against a "crime against humanity.""Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scou
Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt, visiting a family in the besieged area of Homs, Syria, on Jan. 30.
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Pope Francis said the assassination of "my confrere," a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit in Syria, "filled me with deep sadness and made me think again of all the people who suffer and are dying in that martyred country."Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt "arrived in Syria about 50 ye
Pope Francis in 2013
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Pope Francis will celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at a Rome rehabilitation facility for the elderly and people with disabilities.He will preside over the Holy Thursday evening Mass and foot-washing ritual at the Father Carlo Gnocchi Foundation's Our Lady of Providence C
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Ukrainian Catholic bishop warned his church could lose its legal status.