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If funding cuts continue, the world could face higher rates of annual new HIV infections by 2030 than at the peak of the global epidemic in 1995.

A Catholic bishop and the director of an AIDS support organization say the cuts came as a surprise, and left people with no time to make alternative arrangements.

Fr. Jim Worth first learned about the benefits of sensory rooms after attending a panel discussion organized by Together We Bloom, a local nonprofit dedicated to serving the needs of neurodivergent children.

The peace movement, founded March 13, 1945, about six months before the end of World War II, works quietly and largely without much fanfare in France despite its widespread presence in the country.

Although the country nationalized private schools in 1960, "We have full freedom and dignity," said Apostolic Carmel provincial Sr. Mary Nilanthi. 

Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan leaders to "lower the tension in the country" as Catholic bishops in Sudan and South Sudan expressed alarm at the escalating violence in the world's youngest nation and warned of a catastrophe if full-scale war returns.

The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death penalty. Its March 24-27 Death Penalty Abolition Week brought to campus nationally known and respected opponents of the death penalty.

A new report co-authored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops found that Catholics make up 61% of those potentially at risk of deportation.