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Mourners gather for the funeral of members of the Abu Dalal family in Nuseirat, in central Gaza Strip, Oct. 29, 2025, who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their home, according to medics. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)

With Gaza situation fragile, Christian’s presence in Holy Land ‘threatened’

In the Gaza Strip, the fragile calm following the Oct. 13 Israel-Hamas peace deal has brought little relief to the enclave's small Christian community.
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Priest with ALS continues to minister, feels God’s blessings

INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- The pilgrims rode in a boat across choppy waves on the Sea of Galilee with wind gusting and rain blowing into their boat. A greater storm was churning in the hearts and minds of the pilgrims and ...
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Pope plans to visit Iraq in March

Barring any obstacles caused by the global pandemic, Pope Francis is set to begin international travel again in 2021 by visiting Iraq in March, which would make him the first pope to visit this nation.
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Federal judge orders full restoration of DACA program

A federal judge Dec. 4 said the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
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In pandemic, Catholic college students still build community

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a school year turned upside down by the pandemic, groups of students at the Marianist-run University of Dayton in Ohio have been striving to keep some things constant: supporting each other in their faith and reaching ...
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El Salvador church hails U.S. Catholic women as models of solidarity

In one of the regions of El Salvador most battered in a bloody war funded by American dollars, four Catholic women from the U.S. were hailed as examples of solidarity, of Christian faith and martyrdom, as Salvadorans remembered them Dec. ...
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Social justice must be founded on care for others, pope tells judges

Guaranteeing justice for all men and women is not possible while a few people control most of the world's wealth and everyone else's right to a dignified life is disregarded, Pope Francis said.
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