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Pope Francis presides over Mass for the Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 21, 2024.

Pope Francis calls for release of 6 religious sisters taken hostage in Haiti

Jan 21, 2024

By Courtney Mares

Armed gunmen took the religious sisters hostage in Port-au-Prince on Friday during a bus hijacking. Read more

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The French 19th-century three-masted barque Belem is seen from the Palais du Pharo in the southern port city of Marseille on May 8, 2024, before the Olympic Flame arrival ceremony, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Belem is set to reach Marseille on May 8 and ten thousand torchbearers will then carry the flame across 64 French territories.

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Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy.

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Aboriginal dancers perform an Indigenous welcome ceremony at the opening Mass formally celebrating the start of World Youth Day 2008 at Barangaroo on July 15, 2008, in Sydney.

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Pope Francis addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his Wednesday general audience on May 8, 2024.

Pope Francis: Hope ‘is a gift that comes directly from God’

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Montana Catholic bishops oppose abortion ballot initiative

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Ireland’s March for Life draws thousands amid ‘soaring’ abortions

Children look on during a procession at the General Assembly that was held in Mingende in the Kundiawa Diocese in 2022.

Children and youth to play central role in Pope Francis visit to Papua New Guinea

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the media on May 26, 2022, in New York City.

Judge blocks referendum to enshrine abortion in New York Constitution; state to appeal

New Swiss Guards prepare to be sworn in on May 6, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis welcomes Vatican’s new Swiss Guard recruits

Demonstrators hold pro-life placards during an anti-abortion protest in Paris on Jan. 16, 2022. Abortion in France is legal until 14 weeks after conception.

U.S. abortion law is ‘far more permissive than the vast majority of the world’

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