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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. The Ulma family secretly hid eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944. The Vatican declared the Ulma family martyrs Dec. 17, 2022, and they will be beatified Sept. 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish village prepares for Ulma family’s beatification

August 15, 2023
A few years ago, people of the little village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland, would never have thought that in the summer of 2023, they would have dozens of guests coming to visit every day from all over the world.
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Visitors take a group photo in front of a roadway that separates Castel Sant'Angelo from Via della Conciliazione, the wide boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square in Rome July 30, 2023. On an average workday, some 3,800 vehicles travel this road each hour. The city of Rome plans to create an underground roadway for vehicle traffic with the aim of turning the entire area above ground into a car-free zone in time for Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Jubilee years encourage holier heart, prettier city

August 2, 2023
When a Holy Year is proclaimed, the Catholic Church gets busy preparing for a year of big religious celebrations, organized pilgrimages and special initiatives to help deepen faith.
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A child's bicycle, seen in a still image from video, lies on a lawn as a police office walks down a residential street in Baltimore July 2, 2023, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July holiday weekend block party. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore asked for prayers for the victims after the mass shooting left two dead and injured more than two dozen others, most of whom were teens. (OSV News photo/Reuters)

Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Grief Ministry helps families affected by mass shootings

July 20, 2023
The Archdiocese of Baltimore's Grief Ministry is working to help the families affected by the July 2 mass shooting in the South Baltimore community of Brooklyn that claimed the lives of 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi and 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez.
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Crime scene tape is seen in a file photo. Father Stephen Ugwu, the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Melville, La., is stable and recovering following a July 13, 2023, attack with a machete at his church campus. The priest is at a hospital being treated for lacerations to his head and body. (OSV news photo/Baz Ratner, Reuters)

Louisiana priest in stable condition after machete attack

July 18, 2023
A priest in Melville, Louisiana, is stable and recovering following a July 13 attack with a machete at his church campus.
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People protest in front of InterContinental Hotel as unionized hotel workers in Los Angeles and Orange County go on strike in Los Angeles, Calif., July 2, 2023. (OSV News photo/David Swanson, Reuters)

Union vows more strikes until California hotel workers get living wages

July 7, 2023
Hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job for three days around the Independence Day holiday asking for higher wages, affordable family health care, a retirement pension, and manageable workloads.
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People who fled their homes due to fighting between the Afar Special Forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front in Berhale, Ethiopia, wait for food near a makeshift compound in Afdera district, Feb. 23, 2022. (OSV News photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters)

Bishop: Suffering from war, hunger ‘beyond human imagination’ in Ethiopia

July 6, 2023
Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."
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