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Historic Meeting between Pope Francis and Coptic Patriarch, Tawadros II, Fosters Christian Unity

Europe

By Michael Terheyden

When unification among Christians is achieved, all of heaven will rejoice and the world will change. This is our time, our moment in ...

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Pope Francis Shakes up the Ambassadors Meeting and Addresses Economic Issues

Europe

By Deacon Keith Fournier

The Church's social doctrine holds that authentically human social relationships of friendship, solidarity and reciprocity can ...

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You'll be surprised to see what Palestinians are smuggling into Gaza

Middle East

When we think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we may think about people with conflicting ideologies fighting over territory, or ...

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AU CONTRAIRE! Economic crisis has been 'pulling European public opinion apart'

Europe

Strong-headed and opinionated, the French have their likes and dislikes: They dislike Americans, but like our music and films; they ...

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Indian families go to drastic measures to protect daughters from rape

Asia Pacific

Ever since a medical student was brutally gang raped on a speeding bus in Delhi, India, the Indian media has reported on countless ...

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As death and destruction rain down in Syria, refugees flee with lives to Jordan

Middle East

As the death toll mounts in Syria, battered by two years of civil war, thousands of civilians have fled into neighboring Jordan's ...

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Use Twitter, go to HELL

Middle East

Use Twitter and you will go to hell, according to Saudi religious authorities. The heads of Saudi Arabia's religious police has ...

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Savage and Deadly, Cyclone Mahasen batters Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, moves into India

Asia Pacific

Cyclone Mahasen battered southern coast of Bangladesh, turning remote fishing villages upside down with heavy rain and fierce winds. ...

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High-tech Indiana Jones team discovers the fabled lost city of Ciudad Blanca

Americas

Scientists have discovered what they believe could be Ciudad Blanca, a fabled lost city hidden deep within the jungles of Honduras. ...

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Pope Calls Whole Church to Encounter Jesus Christ Personally Through the Holy Spirit

Europe

By Deacon Keith Fournier

Through the Holy Spirit, the Father and the Son come to dwell in us: do we live in God and of God, is our life really animated by God? ...

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Has the lost 'White City of gold' been found at last?

Americas

Ciudad Blanca, or the "White City," according to legend, was full of gold and had been sought out by explorers and treasure ...

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Organ Trafficking: Indian family says their young daughter was killed for organ harvesting

Asia Pacific

Eight-year-old Gurkiren Kaur Loyal, from Birmingham, England died in a Punjabi hospital while on vacation with her family. She was ...

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NK's Kim Jong-Un appoints THIRD army chief in less than two years

Asia Pacific

In a further demonstration of just how politically unstable North Korea is these days, young leader Kim Jong-Un has replaced a ...

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France ponder one percent 'Internet tax' to fund domestic computer production

Europe

France is considering a one percent "Internet tax" which would in turn be used to put back into French businesses. The new ...

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Why did the world's laziest workers destroy a treasured Mayan pyramid?

Americas

Construction workers seeking gravel for a project decided to take it from one place where it was easy to get - a 2,300 year old Mayan ...

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Pope Francis Canonizes 802 Saints: 800 Martyrs of Otranto and Two Latin American Foundresses

Europe

By Pope Francis

Today, he said, "the Church proposes for our veneration a host of martyrs, who were called together to the supreme witness to the ...

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Did intervention in Iraq unjustly discriminate against the Christians there?

Middle East

According to columnist Rod Dreher with the American Conservative publication and Web site, America undermined the Christians in Iraq ...

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Growth in Number of Catholics Worldwide, Along with Priests and Deacons

Europe

By Asia News

The number of Catholics in the 2979 ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the world is up - as is the number of bishops, priests, ...

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Scientists confirm that Roman Empire was destroyed by plague

Europe

The Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries killed more than 100 million people. Named after Byzantine emperor Justinian ...

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Hezbollah can reach Israel with missiles, report says

Middle East

A startling newspaper report says that Hezbollah has long-range missiles pointed directly at Israel and can surprise Tel Aviv with its ...

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Astonishing miracle in the heinous Bangladesh building collapse: 'God is so merciful!'

Asia Pacific

Out of the most horrific tragedies, miracles do occur. As the toll of the Rana Plaza building, the eight-story Bangladesh sweatshop ...

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With Hezbollah statement, Syrian conflict threatens to spread into multinational conflict

Middle East

The situation in Syria is threatening to escalate into an openly multinational conflict as Hezbollah in Lebanon says it's been ...

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Unemployed youth in Greece now above 60 percent

Europe

The young in Greece face increasingly dim prospects, with little to no work and little chance for a brighter future. Greek youth ...

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Chemical weapons in Syria - Did they or didn't they?

Middle East

Did they or didn't they? That's the question experts are trying to resolve as they study evidence of the use of chemical ...

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Pope Francis Calls the Whole Church to Life in the Holy Spirit

Europe

By Deacon Keith Fournier

I would like to focus on the fact that the Holy Spirit is the inexhaustible source of God's life in us. In all times and in all ...

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Before the Tower of Babel - Can you guess which 15,000 year-old words you use every day?

Europe

A "super language" used in Ice Age Europe contains many of the same words we use today - and if we were to engage with ...

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Children as young as five years old forced to work in India's coal mines

Asia Pacific

With no feed to eat, and with dependent families, thousands of Indian children in Jharkhand wake up each day to scratch out a living ...

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Scientists discover 'Brazilian Atlantis' off Rio coast

Americas

Geologists think they may have found another lost continent, after studying rocks brought up from the sea floor off the coast of South ...

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