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Charitable organizations distribute food to displaced people in shelter tents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024.

Wars, climate disasters lead to record-high number of internally displaced people

May 15, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

The global number of internally displaced people worldwide skyrocketed to a record high of 83.4 million in 2024, according to... Read more

Nave of St. Josaphat Ukranian Catholic Cathedral in Parma, Ohio.

Eastern Catholics begin Nativity Fast to empty themselves as did Christ in the Incarnation

Nov 24, 2024

By Martin Barillas

Eastern Christians — both Catholic and Orthodox — observe the Nativity Fast, a penitential and preparatory time before the great... Read more

A Synodal Mass in progress at St. Dominic’s Church at Aluva in the Ernakulam Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church on July14, 2024.

Pope agrees to appointments of two bishops chosen by Syro-Malabar Church for India 

Aug 30, 2024

By Kristina Millare

The appointments come after years of internal tensions among Syro-Malabar Church leaders regarding a synodal, unified liturgy of the ancient... Read more

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Market in Shevchenkove settlement in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine after a 2023 Russian rocket strike.

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Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

U.S. bishops stress need for immediate ceasefire after deadly attack on Gaza parish

The funeral of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win (left), who was martyred in Myanmar on Feb. 14, 2025.

9 people sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder of Myanmar priest

Human embryos.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, leave the church after a visit to Holy Family Parish in Gaza on July 18, 2025.

Pizzaballa, Patriarch Theophilos III visit Holy Family Church in Gaza after Israeli attack

A view of the damage to Holy Family Church in Gaza City following an Israeli strike on the church in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 17, 2025. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church killed three and injured several people on July 17, including the parish priest, as well as causing damage to the building.

Israel says Holy Family Church in Gaza was ‘mistakenly’ hit, ‘regrets’ damage

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Federal court blocks Washington law that would force priests to violate seal of confession

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