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Dutch police search a Spanish truck at the border after nine immigrants were rescued from the freezer of the vehicle in early February in Hazeldonk, Netherlands. The truck driver was arrested as a suspect of human trafficking. (CNS photo/Marcel van Dorst - MaRicMedia, EPA)

Pope leads prayers for victims of ‘perverse plague’ of trafficking

Posted by - August 4, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Human trafficking is “brutal, savage and criminal,” Pope Francis said, but often it seems like people see it as a sad, but normal fact of life.…
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Leonard DiVittorio of the New York borough of Queens poses for a photo July 23 outside the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec. DiVittorio has been organizing the Ahearn Memorial Pilgrimage to the basilica. (CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence)

Americans end pilgrimage to Canadian shrine after 95 years

Posted by - August 4, 2017
STE.-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec (CNS) — Leonardo DiVittorio approached the statue of St. Anne. As part of the opening ceremony of the feast of the grandmother of Jesus July 25, he laid…
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The solar eclipse of Aug. 21 is the first to cross the United States from coast to coast in 99 years. About 12.2 million people live in the path of totality and millions more are expected to travel into it to view the rare event. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

Upcoming eclipse a sign of end times? Hardly so, Wisconsin priest says

Posted by - August 4, 2017
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The word from some quarters is that the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse is a harbinger of the end times, but one Wisconsin priest hardly thinks so.…
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People attach a message for Charlie Gard and his parents to the railings outside the High Court in London July 24. Pope Francis is praying for the parents of Charlie Gard after a U.S. doctor told them nothing could be done to help their son, who suffers from encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. (CNS photo/Peter Nicholls, Reuters)

Pope, others pray as parents of Charlie Gard end legal struggle for help

Posted by - July 29, 2017
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — Pope Francis is praying for the parents of Charlie Gard after a U.S. doctor told them nothing could be done to help their son. Chris Gard…
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