More about the Christians of Iraqi-Kurdistan and Nineveh than Pope Francis, the film highlights their gratitude by showing why it was so important to them that he visit Iraq.
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Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber
The Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a 6-3 vote.
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‘He left in peace’: Trappist monk, last survivor of the Algerian monastery massacre, dies at 97
Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher died 10 minutes after receiving the anointing of the sick at the start of a Mass for the feast of Christ of the King.
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‘We will hunt you down and make you pay’: Is violent revenge against terrorists moral? Just war theory says no.
The targeted killing of alleged terrorists, through drone strikes or other extralegal means, has no moral basis in contemporary Catholic thinking.
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Twenty years of war: America magazine’s coverage of Afghanistan
Twenty years after U.S. military action in Afghanistan began, a look back at America’s coverage of our nation’s longest war.
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Afghanistan, Vietnam and the American legacy of lies
Our invasions of Afghanistan and Vietnam may have different beginnings, but their ends show that we are capable of repeating basic mistakes, writes Ryan Di Corpo.
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Pope Francis denounces bombings in Baghdad that left at least 31 dead
These were the first such suicide bombings since June 2019 and came on the eve of the pope’s planned visit to the country on March 5-8, a visit that now is under serious question.
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Pope Francis prays for 3 killed in knife attack inside French basilica
An attacker armed with a knife killed three people inside a church Thursday in the Mediterranean city of Nice, French authorities said, prompting the country to raise its security alert status to the highest level.
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Turkey’s involvement in Armenia is dangerous. Could Christians face another genocide?
Advocates warned that the Azerbaijani offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh could represent only the beginning of a renewed, genocidal aggression against the Armenian people.
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CRS report says poverty, not religious conflict, causes Sahel violence
Although Catholics comprise a small percentage of the total population in Sahel, the church is respected by the population “regardless of their faith and is seen as a neutral, objective and nonpolitical actor across the region,” said the CRS report, titled “Steps Towards Peace.”