Time Magazine named Pope Leo XIV (pictured in the Paul VI Audience Hall) one of its Top 100 most influential thinkers concerning AI on Aug. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Time Magazine included Pope Leo XIV in its 2025 list of the “World’s Most…

Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega (whose image is regularly displayed in public places) has perpetrated more than 1,000 attacks on the Catholic Church and banned more than 16,500 religious processions, according to a report released Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Barna Tanco/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 10:24 am (CNA). The dictatorship of President…

null / Credit: ArtOlympic/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news in the United States: Illinois man faces homicide charge after allegedly poisoning girlfriend, unborn child with abortion pill A 31-year-old Illinois man has been arrested for homicide of an unborn child after…

Police cruisers near Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, following a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 17 others, 14 of them children. / Credit: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The shooter who killed two children and…