A volunteer places a cross with a number on a grave of an unidentified person during a mass burial ceremony in Bucha, Ukraine, Aug. 17, 2022, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues. (CNS photo/Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters)Pope Francis greets a boy who ran onstage during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Aug. 17, 2022. The pope affectionately rubbed the boy’s close-cropped hair and reassured him he was welcome to stay. “During the audience we talked about dialogue between old and young, right? And this one, he has been brave and he’s at ease,” the pope said about his small guest to applause. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Students are seen in Uvalde, Texas, Aug. 15, 2020. Catholic Extension, a Chicago-based papal mission society, announced that same day it has awarded 30 full scholarships to survivors of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting who want to transfer to a local Catholic school in Uvalde, Texas. Catholic Extension raises funds to help build up faith communities and construct churches in U.S. mission dioceses. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)Members of the Missionaries of Charity religious order pose for a photo with guests following Mass at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, Wis., Aug. 15, 2022. More than 1,000 people attended the Mass, celebrated on the feast of the Assumption. (CNS photo/Sam Lucero)A man engages in a scuffle with security officials before the announcement of the results of Kenya’s presidential election, at the IEBC National Tallying Center in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 15, 2022. Kenya’s Catholic bishops have called for peace after a dispute emerged in the presidential election. (CNS photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters)People react during the funeral of victims who died in the fire that broke out at the Martyr Abu Sefein Orthodox Church. The funeral was at the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Warraq Al Arab district in Giza Governorate, Egypt, Aug. 14, 2022. Pope Francis offered prayers and condolences to the victims of a fire in an Orthodox Church that took the lives of 41 people — including 18 children — who died in a fire in Egypt’s capital, Cairo. (CNS photo/Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Reuters)
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