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PARIS (OSV News) -- With Paralympic Games closing in Paris Sept. 8, more than a monthlong Olympic adventure is over. But the spirit of the Games will resonate...
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TASITOLU, Timor-Leste (CNS) -- While it is tempting to want more money and more power, God works great things through those who know how to make themselves...
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VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (CNS) -- Pope Francis flew 600 miles to a remote outpost of Papua New Guinea to spend an afternoon with a group of missionaries...
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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (CNS) -- God calls Christians to have the courage to be open to faith and to be true neighbors to one another, Pope Francis...
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(OSV News) -- River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex...
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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (CNS) -- Building enthusiasm for living and sharing the Christian faith is not a matter of "techniques" but of being joyful...
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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (CNS) -- In a country where most people identify as Christians and where the Parliament approved a measure to officially...
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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (CNS) -- With a 21-cannon salute, Pope Francis was welcomed to Papua New Guinea Sept. 6, the second stop on his four-nation...
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ALBA DE TORMES, Spain (OSV News) -- The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained...
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(OSV News) -- A study published in July revealed that a new analysis of the Shroud of Turin, including the composition and a microscopic analysis of bloodstains,...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As immigration becomes an increasingly hot-button political issue in the United States and Europe, Pope Francis again underscored...
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) -- Politicians have an essential role in preserving the unity of a nation by working for the common good and promoting cooperation,...
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(OSV News) -- Poland's Catholic bishops have urged schools to continue offering religious teaching after government attempts to restrict it were blocked...
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) -- The Christian call to share the Gospel is not about trying to win converts at all costs, but about living in a way that exudes...
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) -- Pope Francis landed in Jakarta after a 13-hour flight from Rome and was greeted by the religious affairs minister of Indonesia...
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ROME (CNS) -- Traveling on an ITA Airways plane, Pope Francis set off on the longest foreign trip of his papacy. The plane carrying the pope, top Vatican...
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JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- In what was a devastating Sunday morning for hostage families, Israel said Sept. 1 that it had recovered the bodies of six hostages...
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(OSV News) -- A high-profile priest at the center of a Canadian sexual abuse lawsuit and his religious order have told the court that the plaintiff --...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Working to turn migrants away from the prospect of peace and security in a new country is "a grave sin," Pope Francis said. "It...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Catholic Church and Christians at large experience intense persecution in Nicaragua, Pope Francis expressed encouragement...
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JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- With the approaching one-year mark of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, spurred by the Hamas attack on southern Israeli agricultural...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked Catholic bishops in the Middle East to always be "signs of hope, a presence that nurtures words and gestures of...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After five years of refusal, the Chinese government has officially recognized Bishop Melchior Shi Hongzhen as bishop of Tianjin,...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Please, let no Christian church be abolished directly or indirectly: the churches are not to be touched," Pope Francis said about...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Devotions at a Marian shrine in Spain that communicate Mary's "close and affectionate presence" can and should continue, the Dicastery...
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LONDON (OSV News) -- A Catholic pro-life volunteer, twice arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, has received a payout from the U.K....
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ROME (CNS) -- Very much on the beaten path of tourists and pilgrims to Rome, a frescoed ode to the rosary is visited by as few as a dozen people a day. The...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Three hundred days after the outbreak of war in Gaza, the cardinal at the heart of the Holy Land said interreligious relations have...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Nicaraguan government arrested two priests who were then exiled to Rome, shortly after a group of seven priests was sent to Rome...
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(OSV News) -- The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, at...
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(OSV News) -- A Japanese woman religious and Marian visionary has died some five decades after witnessing the miraculous weeping of a statue of Mary and...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Knowing that one is loved by God and loving God in return provides a firm foundation for building healthy relationships and healthy...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Capital punishment promotes a deadly attitude of revenge and denies the possibility of change in the lives of incarcerated people,...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When receiving the Eucharist, Catholics should respond with gratitude and awe that Jesus offers himself as nourishment and salvation,...
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