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LAHORE, Pakistan — Every year during Lent, Sunil Masih remembers his elder brother as churches in Youhanabad — Lahore’s largest squatter settlement for poor Christians — mark the anniversary of the 2015 church bombings. The four Catholic brothers were among more than 150 Christians arrested by police days after twin suicide attacks on St. John’s…
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Although very small in number, Catholics in Bangladesh are making an invaluable contribution to the care of tuberculosis patients in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. “Bangladesh is an underdeveloped country and due to financial reasons, many people in this country do not go to the doctor at the primary stage of any health issue, only…
Pope Leo XIV warned that children must not come to see artificial intelligence chatbots as substitutes for real friendship, cautioning that such reliance could harm their intellectual and emotional development. “We must not allow children to end up believing they can find in artificial intelligence chatbots their best friends or the oracle of all knowledge,…
The state of Aguascalientes in Mexico marked a milestone in the defense of life by becoming the first state to establish a specific date as the “Day of the Unborn Girl and Boy,” an initiative aimed at promoting public policies in support of maternal health and child development. Passed on March 19 by the unicameral…
BAMENDA, Cameroon — Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea of Cameroon’s Archdiocese of Bamenda has described the planned apostolic visit of Pope Leo XIV to Cameroon next month as an unexpected moment of grace for the nation, saying the decision can only be understood in light of divine providence. Speaking at a press conference on March 20…
On March 23, thousands of athletes raced through the streets of Rome in the annual Rome Marathon. One of them, wearing the white habit of a Dominican friar under his jersey, was the Franco-Algerian Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, OP — the first cardinal to participate in the 44-year history of the event. “Since I was a…
Abortionist and convicted serial killer Kermit Gosnell, believed to have murdered thousands of infants and convicted of involuntary manslaughter of a woman, died in prison at 85. Gosnell died two weeks ago of unknown causes, but his death went unreported until March 23, when Irish husband‑and‑wife documentary filmmaking team Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney reported…
The day before he became the bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, Pope Leo XIV spent the night in prayer — but not in the diocese’s main cathedral. Instead, the American missionary traveled 30 miles outside the city to the dusty, half-forgotten town of Zaña. The purpose of his visit wasn’t just to get some solitude before…
Four bishops have written to Congress urging them to investigate the federal Indian boarding school system. Archbishop Shelton Fabre of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, with Bishops John Folda of the Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota; Robert Brennan of the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York; and Barry Knestout of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, sent…
A 39-year-old man was arrested on Saturday, March 21, for throwing an incendiary device at participants at the March for Life in front of the country’s Parliament building in Lisbon, Portugal. According to the police, at the time of the attack “the demonstration comprised approximately 500 participants,” including families with young children and babies. The…
