Category: Church News

null / Credit: angellodeco/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 2, 2025 / 12:46 pm (CNA). U.S. Catholic bishops are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize “false or unsupported claims” in advertisements that promote hormone therapy drugs and surgeries to Americans, and particularly to children. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) submitted a…

null / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 2, 2025 / 13:16 pm (CNA). The international community has a moral and legal responsibility to protect refugees fleeing religious persecution, according to a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “While states are responsible for protecting the fundamental human rights…

The U.S. bishops meet for their 2022 annual fall general assembly in Baltimore. / Credit: Katie Yoder CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2025 / 13:46 pm (CNA). Political and religious debate has continued to ferment in the wake of Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin’s withdrawal from a prominent Catholic award after backlash over his decades of…

Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles serves as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. / Credit: Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 2, 2025 / 14:16 pm (CNA). As negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue, Bishop A. Elias…

Archbishop Giuseppe Baturi (left), the secretary-general of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, meets with Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa in the Holy Land during a Sept. 27–30, 2025, trip to the region. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Italian Bishops’ Conference Rome Newsroom, Oct 2, 2025 / 14:46 pm (CNA). The secretary-general of the Italian Bishops’ Conference…

null / Credit: maximino/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2025 / 09:41 am (CNA). After cutting ties with the Girl Scouts over the group’s endorsement of gender ideology, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati said this week that it has struck up a renewed partnership with the more-than-century-old youth organization.  Last year, the archdiocese ended a 110-year relationship…

An armed police officer talks to a member of the local community outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, England, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. / Credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images EWTN News, Oct 2, 2025 / 10:40 am (CNA). Bishop John Arnold of Salford has condemned a deadly attack on…

Pope Leo XIV greets participants attending the Oct. 1-3 Migrants and Refugees in Our Common Home summit in Rome on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 2, 2025 / 11:10 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said a “culture of reconciliation” is necessary to support more than 100 million people affected…

A student receives his diploma during a graduation ceremony at the Catholic University of Erbil in Iraq on Sept. 30, 2025. / Credit: ACI MENA ACI MENA, Oct 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Catholic University of Erbil in Iraq (CUE) on Sept. 30 celebrated the graduation of 114 students from the 2024–2025 academic…

Cardinal Daniel Sturla testifies before Uruguay’s Senate Health Committee on Sept. 30, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Senate of the Republic of Uruguay ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The archbishop of Montevideo, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, testified before a Sept. 30 hearing of the Uruguay Senate’s health committee, where a euthanasia…