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Year after year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees includes a Vatican sermon with the pope quoting the words of Jesus, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me,” or similar messages from Scripture.

The speakers at an upcoming workshop for male teens will be the attending young people themselves. Pastor Jarvis Cooper never has been comfortable with adults or groups telling teens what they need — especially when he firmly believes young people can clearly make known their desires.

CAIRO — Observant Muslims the world over are united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan started March 9. For Muslims, it’s a time of increased worship, charity and good deeds. Socially, it often brings families and friends together in festive gatherings around meals to break their fast. Ramadan is followed by the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, translated as “the festival of breaking the fast”.

Services and studies

The Lemonade Bros’ signature success continues to get sweeter and sweeter.

Security cameras at St. Columba Catholic Church in Brooklyn showed five people, in the dead of night, trying to force their way inside.

The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition.

When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s top administrative body voted last week to oust four congregations — one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the denomination’s sexual-abuse policy and one for lack of financial participation.