In 2023, over half a million migrants headed toward the United States crossed the Darien Gap, the inhospitable jungle region between Colombia and Panama. / Credit: Gonzalo Bell/Shutterstock.com Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 11, 2025 / 15:50 pm (CNA). More than 100,000 refugees across the globe who are recipients of critical aid from an international Jesuit…

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. / Credit: hyotographics/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 11, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). A newly-designated Catholic cathedral in Myanmar was bombed by the military regime last week amid an ongoing conflict in the region. The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Mindat was severely damaged…

An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021. / Credit: Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase, DOD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 11, 2025 / 14:50 pm (CNA). The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) will no longer allow those who identify as transgender or struggle with gender…

The image of the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes that is seen but is not there. / Credit: Courtesy of Guadalupe García Corigliano Lima Newsroom, Feb 11, 2025 / 15:20 pm (CNA). Those who visit the chapel of the Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in the city of Alta Gracia in Córdoba province, Argentina,…

Pope Francis greets Chems-eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, on Feb. 10, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of the Grand Mosque of Paris Vatican City, Feb 11, 2025 / 13:35 pm (CNA). The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, proposed to Pope Francis organizing a meeting between Christians and Muslims…