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Displaced people in Myanmar are seen at a shelter in a makeshift tent camp near a railway track in Amarapura, a township of Mandalay city, April 4, 2025. A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar midday March 28, with the death toll reaching 3,145 as of April 3. Another 4,589 are wounded and 221 are still missing. Burmese Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay said that the suffering of his people has brought them closer to God and that "today, our people have hope in God's mercy, in the certainty of his love." (OSV News photo/Reuters)

World

Archbishop encourages hope as death toll in Myanmar surpasses 3,000

Junno Arocho Esteves|Apr 4, 2025|3 Min Read

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2024, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in central Portugal. A spokesperson for the shrine said April 3, 2025, it is not considering the removal of artwork by Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik, who is accused of abusing several women in the past. On March 31, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France announced it would cover mosaics created by the disgraced priest. (OSV News photo/Maria Abranches, Reuters)

World

Fatima shrine will not remove Rupnik mosaic, but suspends promotional use, spokesperson says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Apr 3, 2025|3 Min Read

A migrant worker from Myanmar reacts while he waits for news about his brother, as search and rescue operations continue in Bangkok, Thailand, April 1, 2025, following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit midday March 28. Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw April 1, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed thousands, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. (OSV News photo/Chalinee Thirasupa, Reuters)

World

Myanmar death toll surpasses 2,000; cardinal calls for immediate ceasefire amid tragedy

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 31, 2025|3 Min Read

Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, papal nuncio to Ukraine, addresses graduates of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv during a Divine Liturgy and commencement exercises July 2, 2023, at the school's Church of St. Sophia, Wisdom of God. (OSV News/Ukrainian Catholic University)

World

Ukraine war confirms humanity can 'rely only on God,' nuncio says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 21, 2025|5 Min Read

A woman is pictured in a file photo praying at a church in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 28, 2017. Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, reported March 5, 2025, that a pastoral center on the grounds of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Nan Hlaing, located in the northern Diocese of Banmaw was targeted and destroyed by two aerial bombs. (OSV News photo/Jorge Silva, Reuters)

World

Pastoral center in northern Myanmar among latest Catholic sites bombed by governing military junta

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 7, 2025|2 Min Read

A woman marked with a cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family in Nairobi, Kenya, March 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters)

World

Lenten campaign focuses on persecuted Christians; priest's murder makes message more urgent

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 5, 2025|5 Min Read

Worshippers attend a Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 19, 2025, to pray for Pope Francis' health, as the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires calls on all churches in Argentina to hold Masses for the pontiff’s quick recovery. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, told reporters early Feb. 19 that the pope slept peacefully, woke up and had breakfast. (OSV News photo/Pedro Lazaro Fernandez, Reuters)

World

Catholics worldwide unite in prayer for pope's health

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Pope Francis greets the superior general of Sodalitium, José David Correa, during a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 30, 2021. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media via Catholic Press Photo)

World

Sodalitium confirms its suppression after news of it leaks with no Vatican confirmation

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 20, 2025|7 Min Read

A wounded Palestinian child is rushed into a hospital in Gaza City Jan. 15, 2025, following an Israeli strike. Later the same day, a ceasefire deal was reached by Israel and Hamas, following a 15-month war that killed 46,600 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The war was launched after the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israeli communities that killed 1,200 people. (OSV News/Dawoud Abu Alkas Reuters)

World

Holy Land church leaders welcome ceasefire with relief, urge delivering critical aid

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 16, 2025|5 Min Read

Palestinians in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, react to news on a Hamas ceasefire deal with Israel Jan. 15, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ramadan Abed, Reuters)

World

Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire, hostage agreement, as Gaza Catholics rejoice

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 15, 2025|4 Min Read

Worshippers pray during Mass at the Basilica San Sebastián in Diriamba, Nicaragua, Jan. 20, 2024. (OSV News/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)

World

For Catholics in Nicaragua, the year has been 'tragic on every level'

Junno Arocho Esteves|Dec 11, 2024|6 Min Read

This 17th-century oil on canvas painting by Bernardo Strozzi titled "Saint Francis in Prayer" is part of the "Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna" exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (CNS photo/courtesy National Gallery of Art)

Faith

Stigmata: The miraculous gift St. Francis wanted to hide

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 17, 2024|5 Min Read

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