They throng to Mexico City’s Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe as part of the annual celebration of the country’s patroness.
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GOP congressman pitches LGBTQ rights bill with religious exemptions
Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah sees the bill as a way to ‘bridge that gap’ between preventing discrimination and allowing religion to inform individual decisions.
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Rochester, N.Y., diocese request led to rare delay in archbishop’s beatification
The diocese, where Fulton Sheen served as a bishop from 1966 to 1969, says it sought the delay ‘to allow for further review of his role in priests’ assignments.’
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Former Maine bishop resigns Buffalo post under fire for handling of sexual abuse accusations
Richard Malone was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland from 2004 until 2012.
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Vatican returns relic from Jesus’ manger to Holy Land
The tiny wooden relic was returned nearly 1,400 years after the structure it came from it was sent to Rome as a gift to Pope Theodore I.
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Two priests guilty of sexually abusing deaf children at Argentine school
Pope Francis has not commented on the case that has shaken the church in his homeland.
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Pope demands tech companies prevent kids from accessing porn
He also wants Facebook, Apple, Google and other companies to remove child porn from the web.
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Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
The Christian human rights lawyer is challenging the laws, under which female heirs inherit half that of men.
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Mormon leader: We didn’t leave Boy Scouts, they left us
He says the organization made changes that pushed it away from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Australia’s highest court agrees to hear cardinal’s appeal
George Pell is the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children.