Catholic News Service

Officials are assessing the scope of the damage and working to provide humanitarian aid to the estimated 350,000 people who were affected.

“A border fence contradicts both the Gospel and the clear appeal of Pope Francis to Europe,” said Bishop Agidius Zsfikovics of Eisenstadt.

“We affirm that the two-state solution…must be viable politically, geographically, economically and socially.”

“Education is the real game changer. If the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years, what are you going to do with those 17 years?”

“This House believes that Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities…are suffering genocide at the hands of Daesh.”

“Even many ‘pro-choice’ Americans realize that the logic of their position requires them to respect a choice not to be involved in abortion.”

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Sister Clare Theresa Crockett, 33, of Londonderry, died while leading children to safety in a school at Playa Prieta.

“This law has the power to change how the public views the gruesome reality of abortion.”

“Only God knows what their abductors might have done to them, where they would be by now.”

Canadian bishops said the bill was “an affront to human dignity, an erosion of human solidarity and a danger to all vulnerable persons.”