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WOMAN HOLDS PLACARD WITH NAMES OF MISSING FAMILY MEMBERS A woman cries as she holds up a placard with the names of her missing family members at a sports-stadium-turned-evacuation-center in Mianyang, in China's Sichuan province, May 14. Chinese volunteers, including Chinese Catholics, traveled to quake-hit areas on foot, bicycle and in the ir cars in an outpouring of generosity toward those left homeless and grieving by the sudden earthquake. (CNS photo/Reuters)

By Catholic News Service

MIANYANG, China – Sister Zhang Yimei expressed gratitude to God for protecting her younger brother, a priest, during the recent earthquake, but is concerned for the well-being of the family of another nun serving in her parish.

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POLISH CHURCH SEEKS CANONIZATION OF FAMILY KILLED FOR SHELTERING JEWS Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Jozef, and their six children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)
By Jonathan Luxmoore
 Catholic News Service

WARSAW, Poland – The Catholic Church in Poland is seeking the canonization of a peasant couple shot with their six small children for hiding Jews in their farmhouse during the Holocaust.

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CHICAGO PASTORAL ASSOCIATE EXPLORES WORLD'S CHURCHES David Heimann, pastoral associate at St. Ignatius Parish in Chicago, gives a presentation to parishioners about his recent yearlong trip around the world. Mr. Heimann, 33, visited 365 different parishes around the globe in 2007 for daily Mass. (CNS/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)
By Tania Mann
 Catholic News Service

CHICAGO – David Heimann’s dream was to spend 365 days in 365 different places, each destination a new opportunity to experience Christ made flesh in our world today.

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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
 Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – The brief policy statement on embryonic stem-cell research that is to come before the U.S. bishops at their June 12-14 meeting in Orlando, Fla., is designed to set the stage for a later, more pastoral document explaining why the Catholic Church opposes some reproductive technologies.

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By John Thavis
 Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a pioneering church figure for Africa and an influential voice at the Vatican for more than 30 years, died in Paris May 13 at the age of 86.

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By John Thavis
 Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – If aliens exist, they may be a different life form that does not need Christ’s redemption, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said.

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MOTHER LOOKS FOR SON AMONG BODIES OF CHINESE STUDENTS A mother looks for her child in the rain among the recovered bodies of students laid out on the playground of a school in Mianzhu, 50 miles north of Chengdu, China, May 13. A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck China May 12, killing more than 12,000 people. (CNS photo/Jason Lee, Reuters)

By Catholic News Service

CHENGDU, China – Chinese priests had to work around disrupted telephone systems and damaged roads as they tried to assess the damage from the May 12 earthquake centered under Sichuan province.

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HELP KEEP CHRISTIANS IN IN ISRAEL, POPE URGES Pope Benedict XVI urged Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican to help its Christian citizens remain in in the country. Shown here is Assad al-Raai, a former member of the Southern Lebanese Army and a Maronite Catholic in his hospital room in Safed, Israel, after crossing from Lebanon into Israel with other Lebanese Christians at the end of August. Al-Raai predicts that in 10 years there will be no Christians in southern Lebanon. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
By Cindy Wooden
 Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Welcoming Israel’s new ambassador to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI urged Israel to help its Christian citizens remain in the country where they could be a force for peace and understanding.

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ARCHBISHOP FLYNN ENDS LAY PREACHING Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis pauses for a moment of silent prayer at the Cathedral of St. Paul to celebrate the conversion of St. Paul Jan. 25. Archbishop Flynn has barred lay preaching in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, Catholic Spirit)
By Maria Wiering
 The Catholic News Service

NEW HOPE, Minn. – Father Terry Rassmussen, pastor of St. Joseph Church in New Hope, finished the reading, closed the Book of the Gospels and stepped away from the ambo. From the congregation, Ginny Untiedt stepped forward.

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SURVIVORS OF CYCLONE GET FOOD IN MYANMAR Survivors of Cyclone Nargis get food from a local donor in a village destroyed by the cyclone, south of Yangon, Myanmar, May 12. (CNS photo/Reuters)

By Catholic News Service

LEIEINTAN, Myanmar – Pascal Than Hlaing is just one of many who are grieving in Leieintan, a village where only one house is left standing and the Baptist and Catholic churches had their roofs torn open.

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