An injured person is treated following a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Mamuju, Indonesia, Jan. 15, 2021. More than 40 people were killed and more than 600 injured. Pope Francis sent a message of consolation and prayers and offered encouragement to rescuers. (CNS photo/Palang Merah Indonesia, social media via Reuters)Callista Gingrich, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, accompanied by her husband, Newt, greets Pope Francis Jan. 15, 2021, during a meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. She is leaving her ambassadorial post three years after presenting her credentials to Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)National Guard troops walk through the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 13, 2021, before Congress opened debate on one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)Demonstrators in in Terre Haute, Ind., gather to protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery Jan. 12, 2021. She was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute soon after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a hold on her execution at 1:31 a.m. (EST). She was the first woman to be put to death in federal prison since 1953. Two other federal prisoners, Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs, were executed Jan. 14 and Jan. 15 respectively. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)Denise Gormley and her 7-year-old daughter, Rosa, pay their respects at a cemetery in Tuam, Ireland, where the bodies of nearly 800 infants were uncovered at the site of a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children. The photo was taken Jan. 12, 2021, the day a commission investigating the treatment of women in such homes released its report. The commission said the blame for their “harsh treatment” rests primarily with their families, but that both the church and state condoned this. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters)Men stand in line near the burned migrant center “Lipa” waiting for food in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jan. 11, 2021. More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down Dec. 23 amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians over where to house them. (CNS photo/Marko Djurica, Reuters)Officers with the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia salute the hearse of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Jan. 10, 2021. The U.S. Air Force veteran died Jan. 7 after being injured the day before during the breach of the Capitol by President Donald Trump supporters. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)Father Andrew Summerson breaks through the ice on Lake Michigan in Hammond, Ind., Jan. 10, 2021, and plunges a processional cross to complete the Great Blessing of Water, a rite in the Byzantine Catholic Church that commemorates the feast of Theophany, or the Baptism of Jesus. Father Summerson is administrator of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Whiting, Ind., in the Eparchy of Parma, Ohio. (CNS photo/Laura Ieraci)People walk outside the cathedral in Madrid Jan. 10, 2021, following snowfall. (CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)
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