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A young Sudanese woman who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, and was previously internally displaced in Sudan, moves past makeshift shelters, near the border between Sudan and Chad, while taking refuge in Borota, Chad, May 13, 2023. (OSV News photo/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)

For World Refugee Day, missions highlight programs to aid displaced

OSV News June 9, 2023

In a world where 103 million people are forcibly displaced, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Catholic missionaries are often first responders helping those in need of a new home.

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Large plumes of smoke rise from a wildfire raging in the Upper Tantallon area, as seen from Hubley, Nova Scotia, May 28, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. A wildfire that officials say has damaged hundreds of homes is still burning out of control northwest of Halifax with thousands of residences under a mandatory evacuation order. (OSV News photo/Ben Britton via Reuters)

Priest is among heroes fighting flames in Canadian wildfires

OSV News May 31, 2023

While Canada is fighting wildfires from western Alberta province to eastern Nova Scotia, at least one priest is on the frontlines of the battle in firefighter uniform.

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St. Thomas Church in Thomaston, Conn., is pictured in this photo from November 1991. The Archdiocese of Hartford has asked the Vatican to investigate a possible Eucharistic miracle that occurred March 5, 2023. (OSV News photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus)

Possible Eucharistic Miracle In Connecticut Under Vatican Investigation

OSV News May 10, 2023

A possible Eucharistic miracle in Connecticut is now under investigation by the Vatican.

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Oblate Father Kevin Collins, pastor of St. Eugene de Mazenod Parish, places his hand onto his forehead in prayer with migrants at the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, a shelter for migrants and homeless, after a deadly incident where a car ran into pedestrians at a bus stop nearby in Brownsville, Texas, May 7, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Roberts, Reuters)

Flores: Brownsville crash indicative of ‘corrosive tendency’ to devalue human life

OSV News May 9, 2023

A vehicle crashed into a crowd waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.

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Kenyan authorities continue to retrieve bodies from shallow graves in the 800-acre ranch in Kilifi County near the town of Malindi. On April 27, 2023, the official death toll was 95. All victims were followers of the Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie. He told his followers to pray and fast to meet Jesus and that the world would end April 15. They starved to death. (OSV News photo/Moses Mpuria, Sheshi Visual Arts)

Cult starvation massacre in Kenya leaves 95 dead, hundreds missing

OSV News April 28, 2023

Catholic bishops in Kenya have expressed shock and strongly condemned the mass "starvation suicide" in Shakahola, a remote forest-ranch area in eastern Kenya, where a pastor led congregants to fast to death.

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Nine-year-old Teddy Howell, seen in an undated photo, wants to be a podcaster and a priest. Inspired by Father Mike Schmitz's popular podcast, "The Bible in a Year," the third-grader at St. Charles Borromeo Academy in Newport, Mich., has achieved one of those goals with the recent launch of his own podcast: "Kid's Bible In A Year with Teddy." (OSV News photo/courtesy Howell family)

Michigan third grader launches ‘Kid’s Bible in a Year with Teddy’ podcast

OSV News April 27, 2023

When he grows up, third-grader Teddy Howell, a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Newport, and wants to be a podcaster and a priest.

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