Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at the release of Aid to the Church in Need’s “Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025” at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 21, 2025 / 14:07 pm (CNA). Authoritarian regimes are among the main drivers of religious discrimination and persecution in 52…
A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA). Reports circulating in media outlets and on social media in October 2025 allege that the Vatican has opened a prayer room for Muslims in the Apostolic Library. Claim: The Vatican Library has…
Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, founder of the Magis Center, delivers the opening keynote address at the inaugural Wonder Conference on Jan. 13, 2023. / Credit: Word on Fire/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 21, 2025 / 16:26 pm (CNA). Magis Center released this week an artificial intelligence (AI) app designed to provide instant, science-based answers to…
Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis. / Credit: Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 21, 2025 / 16:56 pm (CNA). Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis delivered letters from victims of the Annunciation School shooting to Pope Leo XIV during a recent visit to Rome. The letters from students and their family members…
Sister Reji Varghese began her three-year term as head of the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood for the United States after her recent installation. / Credit: Joe Gigli/Diocese of Paterson CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA). Sister Reji Varghese began her three-year term as head of the Daughters of…
Thirty states have adopted some version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) first signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. / Credit: Leigh Prather/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 21, 2025 / 17:56 pm (CNA). Protections for religious freedom in the U.S. have grown in recent years with multiple states adopting laws to…
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Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., speaks at the University of Notre Dame Forum event on “Healing Our National Dialogue and Political Life” on Oct. 17, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Caterina/University of Notre Dame Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 18:29 pm (CNA). Cardinal Robert McElroy of the…
