The cut-off is a major challenge to the government’s effort throughout the nearly 6-year-old civil war to keep the capital as insulated as possible.
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Here’s how the church in India is supporting transgender people.
India has an estimated 500,000 transgender people.
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Pope Francis to world’s bishops: Maintain ‘zero tolerance’ for child abuse
“It is a sin that shames us,” Pope Francis wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
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Yemen’s children starve as war drags on
"I have already lost a cousin to malnutrition today, I can't lose my little brother," 19-year-old Mohammed Ali says.
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New Year calls for courage, hope; no more hatred, selfishness, pope says
“That is how one builds peace, saying ‘no’ to hatred and violence—with action—and ‘yes’ to fraternity and reconciliation,” Pope Francis said on Jan. 1.
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Ending of Muslim registry praised by Catholic organizations
Some see the end of the registry as a way to make it difficult for an incoming Donald Trump administration to target Muslims through such a program.
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Ceasefire deal reached in Syria, raising hopes for peace
The truce does not include the Islamic State group or al-Qaida’s branch in Syria. Several previous ceasefires all collapsed, some of them in a matter of days.
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Nearly 4 million people visited the Vatican during the Year of Mercy
Although the total was slightly higher from the 3.2 million visitors received by Pope Francis in 2015, for a jubilee year it still fell short of the 5.9 million pilgrims who visited in 2014.
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Why the Catholic Church is taking a ground-up to helping victims of sexual assault
The imbalance in the world, one Jesuit expert has said, reflects how years of papal pleas and Vatican mandates have not been received or implemented consistently everywhere.
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‘Catholics must be patriots’ in China to end divide with Vatican
The ruling Communist Party has long feared that opposition to its rule could be spread by religious and other civic groups outside its control.