Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA). Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue state and killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations…

null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 14:19 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the New York Court of Appeals to revisit Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a case challenging a 2017 New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in health insurance plans. The order follows the…

Archbishop Georg Gänswein has been the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 12:49 pm (CNA). Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024, said the region has been disappointed with the current U.S. administration’s approach to the conflict in…

Smoke billows from an explosion in southwest Tehran on June 16, 2025. Iran’s state broadcaster was briefly knocked off the air by an Israeli strike and explosions rang out across Tehran on June 16 after a barrage of Iranian missiles killed 11 people in Israel on the fourth day of an escalating air war. /…

null / Credit: angellodeco/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 13:49 pm (CNA). Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will close its Center for Transyouth Health and Development and its transgender surgical program in July, citing federal and state-level funding pressures. The hospital told families in an email that there was “no viable alternative” to closing…