Aerial view from Flores Island, Indonesia. / Credit: Livre Partida/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Indonesian Archbishop Paulus Budi Kleden, SVD, has spoken out against government-backed geothermal projects in Flores, the country’s most Catholic island located in East Nusa Tenggara. According to UCA News, Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry designated…

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo (left) and her husband, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega / Credit: Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 13, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The new year has seen the Nicaraguan dictatorship cancel the legal personhood of 15 nonprofit organizations, adding to the more than 5,400 nongovernmental organizations shut…

The Amerigo Vespucci Italian naval ship. / Credit: Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jan 13, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian naval ship named after the 15th-century explorer that inspired the name “America,” has been designated a 2025 Jubilee church. Archbishop Santo Marcianò of the Military Ordinariate…