Rescue workers carry the body of a victim after a boat with 46 migrants from the Maghreb region capsized off Lanzarote, Canary Islands, June 18, 2021. More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other islands. (CNS photo/Borja Suarez, Reuters)People in Flint, Mich., celebrate Juneteenth June 19, 2021. The national holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States. (CNS photo/Emily Elconin, Reuters)Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, reviews buildings destroyed in Gaza during a June 17, 2021, visit. Whole blocks of buildings were rendered unstable by Israeli bombings during the 11-day war with Hamas in May. The patriarchate will help 32 Christian families repair their homes damaged during the bombings. (CNS photo/courtesy Holy Family Parish, Gaza)Pope Francis greets Egan Bernal, the Colombian cyclist who won the 2021 Giro d’Italia race, during his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 16, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Fans of Bogota soccer clubs Santa Fe and Millonarios wear their team’s jerseys following the funeral Mass of Msgr. Alirio Lopez in Bogota, Colombia, June 16, 2021. Msgr. Lopez worked for years to reduce violence at Colombia’s soccer stadiums. (CNS photo/Manuel Rueda)An aerial view shows houseboats anchored in low water June 16, 2021, at Lake Oroville, the second largest reservoir in California. According to daily reports of the state’s Department of Water Resources was near just 35% capacity. (CNS photo/Aude Guerrucci, Reuters)People stand on the roof of a house as floodwater from the swollen Melamchi River enters the Sindhupalchok district of Nepal, June 16, 2021. Flash floods triggered by heavy rains washed away a remote mountain camp in Bhutan June 16, killing 10 people and injuring five, while floods in neighboring Nepal left at least seven people missing, authorities said. (CNS photo/Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters)
Author: Catholic News Service
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