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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Citing a steep decline in the number of men and women religious who work in schools, the Vatican has issued a new document highlighting the 'irreplaceable' role of consecrated people in education and encouraging them to persevere...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo resumed his public ministry on Thursday, November 21, ending more than a year of penitential isolation following his return to the Church...

WASHINGTON (CNS): US bishops have urged the United States to 'step back from the brink of war', saying they 'find it difficult to justify the resort to war against Iraq...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): In their relations with Jews, Christians cannot conceal the strong missionary dimension of their faith, but also must recognise that Jews do not have to convert in order to be saved, a top Vatican official said...

RABOUEH, Lebanon (CNS): Patriarchs from Middle Eastern Catholic Churches who met in Lebanon have warned the United States against a war with Iraq...

ROME (CNS): An international delegation of Catholic aid agencies has warned that military strikes against Iraq would provoke an unjustifiable humanitarian catastrophe for Iraqi civilians...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit/CNS): Pope John Paul has called on all Italian citizens to help the town of San Giuliano di Puglia rebuild in the wake of an October 31 earthquake that killed 29 people, including 26 children...

NEW YORK (CNS): Groups formed under the auspices of the World Community for Christian Meditations are growing faster in the United States than any other part of the world, according to the Benedictine monk who directs the community...

WASHINGTON (CNS): Two Sudanese bishops, calling the civil war in their country genocide, have asked the international community for help in ending the violence...