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Religious hostility has in recent decades created a divide between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria while it was not originally an issue linked to conflicts in the country.

Legal action filed against a New York state diocese shows the Catholic Church in the U.S. has significant work to do in safeguarding adults from clerical abuse.

After the closure of the city’s only mass shelter, solutions are coming but in a race against snowfall for an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 homeless people in Anchorage, heavy snowstorms struck before shelter issues were solved.

Photos featured this week include the 1 millionth coat given away in the Knights’ Coats for Kids program and a burial chamber with a mosaic floor and frescoes painted under the arches in the Via Triumphalis Necropolis at the Vatican.

The U.S. Catholic bishops approved supplements to a teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholics — on Nov. 15 during their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services led his brother bishops in prayer for wisdom as they began their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore Nov. 13 with a Mass for peace.

The March for Life’s theme for its 2024 event will be “Pro-Life: With Every Woman, For Every Child.” Pro-life advocates have gathered in Washington to march each year since then to protest the ruling in 1974.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious congregation founded in 1839, serves the elderly poor in over 30 countries around the world. Now one of their own needs prayers.