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Pope Francis greets members of the Italian Association of Catholic Teachers during a Jan. 5 meeting in Clementine Hall at the Vatican. The group of elementary school teachers recently held its national congress in Rome. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

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Pope Francis to teachers: Help students to be open to others in a ‘culture of encounter.’

by Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service January 5, 2018

They need to be “capable of caring and tenderness—I am thinking of bullying here—free from widespread fallacies” that claim the only way to be worth anything is “to be competitive, aggressive and tough toward others

A Salvadoran immigrant carries her son in a field in Huehuetoca, Mexico, while trying to reach the U.S.-Mexico border in 2015. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

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Border bishop pleads for TPS leniency for the sake of children

by Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service January 5, 2018

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said he worries for families in which some members are U.S. citizens and others have a less permanent immigration status.

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Monks killed in Algeria, depicted in ‘Of Gods and Men,’ will soon be beatified

by Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service January 4, 2018

The decree for their beatification should be published sometime in January, Trappist Father Thomas Georgeon said.

People walk as traffic is blocked by security forces Dec. 31 in Kinshasa, Congo. Church leaders in Congo have expressed "profound shock" after security forces fired on Catholics protesting rule by President Joseph Kabila, leaving at least eight dead. (CNS photo/Kenny Katombe, Reuters)

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Cardinal condemns deaths in Congolese protests

by Catholic News Service January 4, 2018

Police also used tear gas and batons against Massgoers in some of the capital’s 150 parishes and violently broke up attempted marches in which protesters demanded fresh elections in the country.

In this Nov. 30, 2017 photo, an Ixil Maya man prays next to the niches where 172 civil war victims were placed, at the cemetery in Santa Avelina, Guatemala. Since the exhumations in Santa Avelina began in 2014, experts have identified 108 of the victims through DNA testing or through personal objects recognized by surviving family members. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

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Bodies emerge from Guatemala’s war-era ‘model villages’

by Moises Castillo - Associated Press January 4, 2018

During Guatemala’s civil war, the government forced tens of thousands of farmers into so-called model villages under strict army control to isolate them from the guerrillas. Hundreds were left to die.

In Kazakhstan, "divorced people living with someone else would not dare ask for holy Communion because they know they are living in a situation of sin. It would be blasphemy," said Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana. (CNS photo illustration/Mike Crupi)

Bishops in Kazakhstan say no Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics

by Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service January 4, 2018

The statement from the Kazakh bishops can be interpreted as a response to Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia.”

Pastor Charles Stoker looks over damage to Hi-Way Tabernacle Assembly of God Church after Hurricane Harvey in Cleveland, Texas, north of Houston. (Photo courtesy of Becket Law Firm.)

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Hurricane-damaged houses of worship can receive FEMA aid

by Adelle Banks - Religion News Service January 4, 2018

President Trump tweeted in September that Texas churches should be “entitled to reimbursement from FEMA” for aiding Hurricane Harvey victims.

A newborn baby was abandoned this year in the Angel Cradle drop-off point at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton for the first time since the program began in 2013. (CNS photo/Lincoln Ho, Grandin Media)

Catholic program for abandoned babies may have saved Edmonton newborn

by Catholic News Service January 4, 2018

It was the first time a baby has been abandoned under the Angel Cradle program since it began in Edmonton in May 2013.

Blood stains are seen Dec. 29 on the floor of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Mar Mina in Helwan, Egypt, near Cairo (CNS photo/Amr Abdallah Dalsh, Reuters).

Bishop urges prayers for peace after attack on Coptic Christians

by Catholic News Service January 2, 2018

Pope Francis also prayed for the victims of the attacks on Sunday.

Pope Francis is pictured during vespers on New Year's Eve in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 31. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis says 2017 marked by death, “lies and injustices”

by Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press December 31, 2017

In his homily on New Year’s eve,, the pope said God gave to us a “whole and sound” year, but “we humans in so many ways ruined and hurt it.”