Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall for his Wednesday general audience on Jan. 15, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 15, 2025 / 10:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a global commitment to eradicate child labor, saying injustices committed against “the invisible…
Church at the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria. / Credit: Father Samuel Kanta Sakaba, rector of a Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna Rome Newsroom, Jan 15, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA). Nigeria was the country with the most Christians killed and kidnapped in 2024, according to the latest report from advocacy group…
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on January 15, 1775, Giovanni Battista Sammartini passed away in Milan due to pneumonia. He was a musician to whom “a place of honor in the history of music is reserved not for his qualities as an opera composer or sacred music composer, but for having first sketched the…
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On Jan. 7, 2025, two religious sisters were kidnapped in the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria. / Credit: Diego Cervo/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Jan 15, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The two members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, (IHM) who were abducted on Jan. 7 from the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria…
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The Vatican City’s Governor’s Palace (Palazzo del Governatorato in Vaticano), the building that is the seat of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State in the Vatican Gardens. / Credit: Some pictures here/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to…
By this point, most people have heard of the term “nones,” which refers to religiously unaffiliated individuals who claim to be agnostic, atheist, or “nothing in particular.” Have you ever considered that religious disaffiliation might be the very first step a person might take on the path to getting trapped in occult practices? A 2023…
The term “openness” is one of those flexible notions which, like those of “public order,” “good faith,” or “proportionality,” evade the exercise of definition. We know the important function of “standards” in legal technique. Legislators and judges deliberately use these words taken from ordinary language, the meaning of which varies according to the context and…
