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An interfaith group wants the Baltimore faithful to show their outrage at the city’s soaring homicide rate and flex their political muscles as candidates for mayor and city council seek their votes during the summer campaign season.

Sister Marilyn Schatz, O.L.V.M, celebrated 60 years as a member of Our Lady of Victory Missionary sisters on May 24 at her motherhouse in Huntington, Ind.

WASHINGTON – The number of Christians murdered in Iraq since 2003 skyrocketed compared to murders in 1995-2002, said a comprehensive report based on public accounts from Iraqi Christian sources.

PHILADELPHIA – Cardinal Justin Rigali thanked the Philadelphia City Council June 14 for voting to rescind a “troubling resolution” that had declared Philadelphia a “pro-choice city.”

LONDON – Amnesty International has defended its new policy on abortion after a Vatican official said Catholics might need to withdraw their financial support of the organization.

The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, has announced it will participate in a pilot program to extend the reach of National Cancer Institute (NCI) research and state-of-the-art treatment into more states, cities and towns.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the face of poverty, secularization and the spread of sects in Latin America, Catholics around the world must form strong communities of faith ready to help them spiritually and materially, Pope Benedict XVI said.

GENEVA (CNS) — Labor, trade and investment policies and practices should value and protect the worker, a Vatican official told delegates at an international labor conference.

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, the first woman elected president of the U.N. General Assembly since 1969, is the 2007 winner of the Path to Peace Award.

In his first official assembly with Maryland religious leaders, Sen. Ben Cardin laid out his vision for the war in Iraq, immigration reform, peace intervention in the Holy Land and national health coverage, and set up a process to confer with the group on a regular basis.

With a stable of speakers ranging from bishops to an internationally recognized movie star, organizers of the 17th-Annual Catholic Family Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center June 27 to July 1 hope to motivate attendees to return to their parishes inspired to serve God.

Amid 10,000 people serving as volunteers for one Catholic organization, there are bound to be common traits. Yet they won’t be found in appearance, age, marital status or gender.