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The Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a recent visit to northern Iraq. He said by email that there was little left in some of the communities that he toured on Nov. 27-29 and that
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Lori Hinnant - Associated Press
Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.
A young Syrian man receives medical treatment July 21 at a field hospital in the region of Douma in Damascus, Syria. (CNS photo/Mohammed Badra, Reuters)
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On the campaign trail, the president-elect put Syrian refugees “on notice.”
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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The president of the Canadian bishops’ conference has written a frank letter to Canada’s federal immigration minister urging immediate government action to unclog delays in processing refugee applicants. Bishop Douglas Crosby, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, wro
Syrian refugees arrive at a camp after crossing into the Jordanian side of the northeast Jordan-Syria border near Royashed. (CNS photo/Jamal Nasrallah, EPA)
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
"The cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Middle East has become the theater of incredible brutality," said Archbishop Bernardito Auza.
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Kevin Clarke
The Russian countermeasures on proliferation followed quickly on the heels of a U.S. decision to suspend what had become fruitless negotiations toward a cease-fire in Syria. The setback does not bode well for near-term progress on U.S.-Russia disarmament, an effort that has been stalled for years af