Crisis Response Canines dog Axel visits with community members in Minneapolis after the deadly Annunciation Church shooting there, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. / Credit: Gloucester Township Police CNA Staff, Sep 2, 2025 / 13:40 pm (CNA). Police from a New Jersey township brought a K-9 unit to the Minneapolis area as part of a supportive…

Catholic bishops planting a tree at the premises of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh in Dhaka, Aug. 14, 2020. / Sumon Corraya Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sep 2, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). In Bangladesh, the call for “care for nature” in Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ has resonated deeply across religious lines. Christians, Protestants, and non-Christians alike…

Iraqi Prime Minister reopens the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of the Hour in Mosul. / Credit: Ismail Adnan/ACI MENA ACI MENA, Sep 2, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). In the city of Mosul, Iraq, an official celebration was held on Monday, Sept. 1 to mark the reopening of the churches of…

Father Rafael Ciro, pictured above, served in the Diocese of Paterson New Jersey. / Credit: Courtesy of Diocese of Paterson ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 2, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA). The bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, Kevin Sweeney, mourned the suicide of Father Rafael Ciro, a Colombian-born priest who served as pastor of St. Stephen’s…

Father Marcial Maciel. / Credit: DominikHoffmann, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 2, 2025 / 17:42 pm (CNA). A new HBO series on Marcial Maciel has once again placed the spotlight on the founder of the Legionaries of Christ and the complaints of sexual abuse against him. The congregation in Rome…