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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at Prince George’s Community College on Aug. 15, 2024, in Largo, Maryland.

Harris pushes child tax credit expansion at rally days after Vance makes similar proposal

Bishop Rolando Álvarez.

870 attacks against the Catholic Church reported in Nicaragua since 2018

A woman walks in the rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 24, 2022. The United Nations Security Council is considering an international intervention in Haiti to open up an aid corridor.

Haitian priest says conditions in country are ‘unacceptable, intolerable, and inconceivable’

Galway Bishop Michael Duignan said in a statement on Friday that the news of the stabbing of a Catholic chaplain was “deeply shocking and upsetting.”

Irish authorities investigating stabbing of Catholic chaplain as possible terror incident

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Louisiana treasurer urges ban on Bank of America over alleged religious discrimination

On the Vatican website, the Holy See’s communications department used a picture of a Rupnik mosaic of the dormition of Mary at the top of an article for the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary on Aug. 15, 2024.

Rupnik art appears on Vatican website again — and in Pope Francis’ apartment

St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand Church’s safeguarding efforts praised, but report highlights need for action

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Immigrant priests, New Jersey diocese sue U.S. State Department over visa delays

Several mobs attacked Christian communities and set fire to several churches Aug. 16, 2023, in the town of Jaranwala, in Pakistan’s Faisalabad district, after two Christians were accused of defiling the Quran.

Pakistan: One year later, Jaranwala Christians await justice

Vatican peace envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi spoke Aug. 14, 2024, with Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, about the Russia-Ukraine war. The phone conversation was the most recent step in the Vatican’s continued diplomatic efforts to promote lasting peace in the region.

Vatican talks to China in continued Russia-Ukraine peace efforts

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