The funeral of Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest who recently took his own life at the age of 35, was held July 8, 2025, in the presence of the faithful — especially young people — he served at the parish in Cannobio in the Piedmont region. / Credit: Courtesy of Italian Episcopal Conference ACI…

Notre-Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris”), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. / Credit: Sam valadi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 14, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris has become…

Charitable organizations distribute food to displaced people in shelter tents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024. / Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 14, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). As U.N. agencies issue dire warnings of humanitarian collapse in Gaza, the Catholic arm of an organization that promotes Christian…

A map of Nigeria. / Credit: SevenMaps/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Jul 14, 2025 / 14:28 pm (CNA). Three seminarians were kidnapped and a security guard was killed in an armed attack on Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi in Nigeria on the night of July 10. In a statement issued July 11, Father…