A wife and husband embrace outside of their destroyed home in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Feb. 10, 2023. A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked areas of Turkey and Syria early Feb. 6, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing thousands. (OSV News photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters)Rescuers carry Mehtez Farac, an 8-year-old Syrian boy, who survived after he was pulled from the rubble Feb. 8, 2023, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Hatay, Turkey. The powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked areas of Turkey and Syria early Feb. 6, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing thousands. (OSV News photo/Kemal Aslan, Reuters)Women move bags of donated clothing outside the Turkish consulate in New York City Feb. 8, 2023. The clothing was among the relief items that were to be flown to Istanbul and distributed to victims of the catastrophic earthquakes that rocked areas of Turkey and Syria Feb. 6. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)Pope Francis blesses a participant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Indigenous Peoples’ Forum during an audience at the Vatican Feb. 10, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A large group of children take photos of and reach out to Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican audience hall Feb. 8, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Pope Francis blesses the Benedictine Torch, which is being carried on a pilgrimage of prayers for peace, at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican audience hall Feb. 8, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Children arrive in procession for a Spanish-language Mass celebrated in honor of Our Lady of Suyapa, patroness of Honduras, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City Feb. 5, 2023. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)Cantor Kim R. Harris sings during the Archdiocese of New York’s annual Black History Month Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City Feb. 5, 2023. The liturgy also marked the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family, an annual observance founded by Franciscan Father James E. Goode, former president of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus who died in 2022 at age 81. The Mass was dedicated to his memory. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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