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A caravan wades past buoys, being constructed to deter migrant crossings through the Rio Grande, as they search for an entry point into Eagle Pass, Texas. Post-COVID, the numbers of trafficking victims identified by the UN has risen by 25 per cent.

Human trafficking on the rise: UN report

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons shows the number of victims identified in 2022 and beyond is 25-per-cent higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, is seen in a Dec. 28, 2024 in the Franciscan Curia in Jerusalem. He has a unique perspective on the plight of Christians in the region. As head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land -- which has been entrusted with safeguarding the holy sites of Christianity for over 800 years -- Father Patton has been a steadfast advocate for peace and mutual respect among different religious and ethnic communities.

Custos: Wish of Holy Land Christians is to start again and live in peace in land of ancestors

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Amid the turmoil of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, has a unique perspective on the plight of Christians in the region.

Debris is left along Bourbon Street after a pickup truck was driven into a large crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025. A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens before being shot to death by police, authorities said.

New Orleans archbishop, others offer prayer and support for victims of 'evil' deadly New Year attack; FBI investigating as terrorism

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The archbishop of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of the attack perpetrated by a man who drove a Ford pickup truck through crowds celebrating the New Year in New Orleans' French Quarter around 3:15 a.m. Jan. 1.

Bishop Murray Chatlain

Chatlain to succeed Gagnon as archbishop of Winnipeg

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The CCCB officially announced on Dec. 30 that Archbishop Richard Gagnon, 76, will retire as bishop of Winnipeg after Pope Francis accepted his resignation request and that Chatlain, currently Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, will be his successor.

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MAiD toll almost five per cent of deaths

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Health Canada鱿鱼视频app new annual report about medical assistance in dying (MAiD) revealed that euthanasia now accounts for nearly five per cent 鈥� 15,343 people 鈥� of the nation鱿鱼视频app total fatalities (326,571) in 2023. 

Screenshot of Cardinal Leo speaking during his homily at the Archdiocese of Toronto鱿鱼视频app Solemn Opening Mass of the Jubilee Year.

Cardinal Leo launches a Jubilee year of renewal

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Toronto Catholics welcomed Cardinal Francis Leo back to Toronto following his journey to Rome earlier this month where he was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, sprinkles worshippers with water during the blessing of water on the Dnipro River after he celebrated a Divine Liturgy Jan. 6, 2024, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.

Pope Francis accepts invitation to Ukraine, major archbishop says, but nothing is 'guaranteed'

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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych set Ukrainian hopes high for the Jubilee Year by saying that Pope Francis accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine in 2025.

Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, greets U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford during a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 28, 2018, file photo.

Christians in Iraq 'tense' after Syria regime change, patriarch says

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After Pope Francis prayed on Christmas Day for Syrian Christians facing uncertainty amid the country's regime change, the leader of the Catholic Church in neighboring Iraq said the toppling of the regime left Christians in the region feeling "tense."

People in Damascus, Syria, attend a protest against the burning of a Christmas tree in the country's Hama governate, Dec. 24, 2024.

Christians protest in Syria after Christmas tree burned

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A Christmas tree was reportedly set ablaze in a Christian-majority town in Syria, prompting protests in the war-torn nation just two weeks after the ouster of former President Bashar Assad and his regime.

Youth asked to 'Rise Up' as Christ's disciples

Youth asked to 'Rise Up' as Christ's disciples

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The 600 young adults attending Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO)鱿鱼视频app 2024 Rise Up conference in Calgary from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1 will be implored to 鈥渢ake courage鈥� and navigate the secularized world as bold disciples of Jesus Christ.

Papal point man for charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity is pictured with children in Fastiv, Ukraine, Dec. 23, 2024, after he opened a soup kitchen in Fastiv, 48 miles west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the children performed a Nativity play for him.

Despite fear in Ukraine, keep going, pope tells Cardinal Krajewski

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The papal point man for charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, opened a soup kitchen in Fastiv, in Ukraine's Kyiv region, Dec. 23 and was heading east to Kharkiv to spend Christmas "in the city where 鱿鱼视频app bombs fell first and the war started" on Feb. 24, 2022.

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