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Neighborhood rubble with a message painted on a wall is seen in Gaza City June 6. Houses in the area were destroyed during the 2014 war between Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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One year after a war with Israel that turned daily life here into a nightmare, a Catholic priest in Gaza said the situation in this besieged Palestinian territory has deteriorated even further.
A boy rides his bike amid the ruins of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, June 9. Houses in the area were destroyed during the 2014 war between Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Fawzi Abu Jame'a had finally finished building his family's dream home just eight months before the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic party that governs Gaza. Unable to work because of diabetes, Jame'a had borrowed money from friends to buy the last materials he
Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano greets people during the sign of peace at Mass April 9 in a makeshift chapel inside a U.N. base in Malakal, South Sudan. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano's parish is a tightly packed maze of tents and tarpaulins filled with people hiding from war.
A man constructs a shelter inside a U.N. base in Juba, South Sudan, March 7. Church leaders in South Sudan are trying to breathe new life into their country'­s stalled peace talks. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
Church leaders in South Sudan are trying to breathe new life into their country's stalled peace talks.Stating that they spoke "with divine authority," leaders of the South Sudan Council of Churches, which includes Catholics and Protestants, issued a statement in late March lamenting th
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
They band together to search for sons, recover their bodies
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
Two mass killings in South Sudan have taken place in a Catholic diocese whose leaders were forced to flee the conflict, leaving the church's work in the hands of lay workers who are often on the run from fighting."We are a diocese in diaspora. My priests and I were forced out of our pastora
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
South Sudan's civil war has taken a brutal turn, despite appeals from the country's church leaders to stop the violence.In the oil hub of Bentiu, rebels loyal to ousted Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, killed more than 200 civilians and wounded more than 400 in mid-April, the Unit
Women construct a shelter March 19 in a camp for internally displaced persons camp in Turalei, South Sudan.
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
Church leaders in South Sudan have called on their country's warring groups to stop fighting and begin serious peace negotiations.In a pastoral statement released in Juba on April 13, nearly four months after fighting broke out in the newly independent African country, officials of the South Sud
Sister Suja Francis, a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, greets children inside a United Nations camp for internally displaced families in Juba, South Sudan, on April 1.
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
When South Sudan's fledgling democracy suddenly unraveled in December, what started as political infighting within the country's ruling party quickly ripped along ethnic fault lines, often pitting neighbors against each other according to the tribal markings on their faces.Within a few days,