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March for Life: Trump Promises to Investigate ‘Radical Left Attacks’ on Churches, Pregnancy Centers

January 24, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

President Donald Trump addressed pro-life advocates in a video speech at the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday, praising them for their "extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn" while promising to "end the weaponization of law enforcement [...]

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Pope Francis taps travel agent Cardinal Koovakad to lead Interreligious Dialogue dicastery

January 24, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

Indian Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad of the Syro-Malabar Church, official of the Secretariat of State and organizer of papal trips, was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. / [...]

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Pope Francis sends delegation to Syria to support reconstruction

January 23, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, during an interview at the Vatican on Dec. 11, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News Vatican City, Jan 23, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA). Sent by Pope Francis, the prefect [...]

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CEO of LGBT activist group GLAAD praises Pope Francis for promoting homosexual ‘blessings’

January 23, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

‘We are working with the Pope,’ Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, said during a pro-LGBT session of the World Economic Forum in Davos. ‘I think we’ve seen the most movement we have ever seen,’ she added. [...]

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Pope Francis approves transfer of Chinese bishop to Diocese of Fuzhou

January 23, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

A worshipper waves the flag of China as Pope Francis leaves following the weekly general audience on June 12, 2019, at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. / Credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Jan 23, 2025 / [...]

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Colombian region faces unprecedented humanitarian crisis after guerrilla attack

January 23, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Fierce clashes between two guerrilla groups in the northwestern region of Catatumbo, Colombia, on Jan. 16 have not only resulted in at least 80 people dead, but also generated a broad humanitarian crisis. --- SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Fierce clashes between [...]

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Pope Francis gives his support for AI, but it must be ‘ordered to the human person’

January 23, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Pope Francis says AI – artificial intelligence – poses “a unique set of questions and challenges” for humanity. --- Pope Francis says AI – artificial intelligence – poses “a unique set of questions and challenges” for humanity. In a message sent to [...]

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U.S. bishops criticize Trump’s executive orders on climate, death penalty, immigration

January 23, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The president of the U.S. bishops’ c... [...] --- Archbishop [...]

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Nicaraguan dictatorship confiscates seminary in Matagalpa

January 23, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Seminarians at St. Aloysius Gonzaga in 2022. / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Matagalpa Lima Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The seminary of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, has been confiscated by the country’s dictatorship. T... [...] --- Seminarians [...]

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U.S. bishops voice concern over immigration, gender policies in religious freedom report

January 22, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 10:20 am (CNA). Policies related to immigration, gender ideology,... [...] --- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [...]

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