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A Guajajara "forest guardian" holds a gun as he prepares to search for illegal loggers on Arariboia indigenous territory near Amarante, Brazil, Sept. 10, 2019. A report released Sept. 24 from the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council shows the number of indigenous murdered last year increased by more than 20% in comparison to 2017. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)

Violence against indigenous in Brazil soars, says bishops’ agency

Lise Alves
September 26, 2019
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Less than two weeks before the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon was scheduled to begin at the Vatican, the Brazilian bishops’ Indigenous Missionary Council reported that the number of indigenous land invasions and indigenous murdered in Brazil in 2018 soared.

A park adjacent to St. Vincent de Paul Church in downtown Baltimore has served as a refuge for homeless people. The park is shown in a 2018 file photo. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff

St. Vincent de Paul Parish temporarily closes park used by homeless 

Mary K. Tilghman
September 25, 2019
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St. Vincent de Paul Parish has closed the corner park adjacent to its downtown Baltimore church, forbidding visitors to sit or sleep there as has been the custom of people experiencing homelessness for many years. 

Raymond Gaviola, a parishioner of St. Francis de Sales in Abingdon, and Victoria Molnar play the prince and princess in a cultural dance on the plaza of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen during the Archdiocesan Filipino Saints Fiesta Celebration Sept. 22. (Rus VanWestervelt/Special to the Review)

Baltimore Archdiocese Filipino celebration brings another big crowd to cathedral

Rus VanWestervelt
September 25, 2019
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On the last full day of summer, nearly 2,000 people from across the Mid-Atlantic region turned out for the ninth annual Archdiocese of Baltimore Filipino Saints Fiesta Celebration at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Sept. 22.

Pope Francis receives a gift from children during a Sept. 24, 2019, visit to Cittadella Cielo ("Heaven's Citadel"), the headquarters of the New Horizons Community in Frosinone, Italy. The community is a lay movement that engages in evangelization and service to the disadvantaged, including young people dealing with addiction. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

God loves, rescues even those in the ‘hell’ of addiction, pope says

Cindy Wooden
September 25, 2019
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Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Sept. 24 to spend the day with members of an Italian lay community, the young people in recovery they assist and tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Video segments play during the opening of the U.N. Climate Action Summit Sept. 23, 2019, at U.N. headquarters in New York City. In a video message sent to participants at the summit, Pope Francis said that while the 2015 Paris climate agreement raised awareness and the "need for a collective response," the commitments made by countries "are still very weak and are far from achieving the objectives set." (CNS photo/Lucas Jackson, Reuters)

Commitment to fighting climate change still weak, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves
September 24, 2019
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The international community must ramp up its efforts if it expects to mitigate the negative effects of climate change, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis poses during a meeting with members of the Italian Catholic Union of the Press at the Vatican's apostolic palace Sept. 23, 2019. Journalists need to be able to distinguish good from evil and see how their reporting can actually shape the world, not just describe what has happened, Pope Francis said. Reporters can also help "unmask words that are false and destructive," and make sure their sources are credible, he added. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Help unmask fake, destructive news, pope tells journalists

Carol Glatz
September 24, 2019
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Catholic journalists need to be able to distinguish good from evil and recognize how their words can shape the world, not just describe what has happened, Pope Francis said.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, president of the German bishops' conference, gestures Sept. 13, 2019, during the extended Joint Conference of Bishops and Laity to prepare the "synodal way." The bishops of Germany, reacting to an independent study of the extent of clerical sexual abuse in their country and its possible causes, chose to initiate a "synodal" process that was not a synod or a plenary council. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)

German ‘synodal way’ is rapid response to abuse scandal, conference says

Cindy Wooden
September 22, 2019
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The bishops of Germany, reacting to an independent study of the extent of clerical sexual abuse in their country and its possible causes, chose to initiate a “synodal” process that was not a synod or a plenary council.

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