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What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 17 in Minneapolis

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

British MP says Catholic Church has role to play for Palestine

Aug 26
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV blesses pilgrims at the weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo laments ‘terror, destruction, and death’ in Gaza

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A heavy machine drives past shipping containers stacked at a depo in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 1, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

Jesuit calls Africa’s debt crisis ‘moral failure’

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Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church’s school in response to a reported mass shooting, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Credit: Mark Vancleave/AP.)

Minneapolis police: Shooting at Catholic school has left 2 children murdered, shooter also dead

Aug 27
Steve Karnowski,
Mark Vancleave, Associated Press

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A woman is allowed to drop off flowers at the Annunciation Catholic School sign near the scene of the shooting at the school in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025. (Credit: Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP.)

What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 17 in Minneapolis

Aug 28
Claudia Lauer,
Associated Press

People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025. (Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn/AP.)

Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire

Aug 28
Jesse Bedayn,
Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press

Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church’s school in response to a reported mass shooting, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Credit: Mark Vancleave/AP.)

Minneapolis police: Shooting at Catholic school has left 2 children murdered, shooter also dead

Aug 27
Steve Karnowski,
Mark Vancleave, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV blesses pilgrims at the weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo laments ‘terror, destruction, and death’ in Gaza

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