A mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2024. / Credit: eyetravelphotos/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2025 / 16:04 pm (CNA). The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the religious liberty implications for women and minorities in Afghanistan four years after the Taliban’s takeover.  “Religious freedom conditions in Afghanistan continue…

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa tours the war-torn area surrounding Holy Family Church with the parish’s pastor in Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 16:56 pm (CNA). The ongoing violence in the Holy Land, especially now with the war in Gaza, was addressed…

Members of the Catholic nonprofit Strangers No Longer and others march to the Detroit ICE headquarters in July 2025. / Credit: Tom Tomala, Strangers No Longer Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2025 / 14:34 pm (CNA). Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Detroit Field Office recently met with a Catholic migrant aid group and a Democratic…

Worshippers attend a Sunday morning Mass led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on July 20, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:04 pm (CNA). Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the only…

Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Toulouse ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:34 pm (CNA). Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France, has reversed his decision to appoint a priest convicted of rape as chancellor of the archdiocese and asked forgiveness of the victims of…