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(OSV News) — Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner and prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity went to Ukraine for the seventh...

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LAMPEDUSA, Italy (OSV News) — In front of the Church of St. Gerland on the Italian island of Lampedusa, dozens of migrants lined up...

Mateusz Szpytma, vice president of the Polish Institute of National Rememberance speaks during the Aug. 21, 2023, opening of the exhibition "Death for Humanity" about the Ulma family in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland. Szpytma was in primary school when he learned about his relatives -- the Ulma family -- who were killed by German Nazis during the war. Twenty years later, as an experienced historian, he felt the urge to research the story of his family that he eventually told to the world. (OSV News photo/Slawomir Kasper, courtesy Institute of National Remembrance)

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(Editor’s note: This version includes updates based on information clarified on Sept. 5.) KRAKÓW, Poland (OSV News) — Mateusz Szpytma has always been fascinated...

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, Józef, and their seven 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)

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By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all...

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