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Father Alan Sanchez with parishioners at St. Joseph Church in La Pryor, Texas. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Alan Sanchez Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). A Mexican-born Catholic priest who has served in the Diocese of Laredo, Texas, for nine years must leave the United States because his application…
null / Credit: CNA CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 10:41 am (CNA). At least two victims are reportedly dead, with multiple injuries reported, after a mass shooting incident at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school. A massive police presence descended on Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, with emergency responders having initiated a…
Parents await news of their children after a reported mass shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. / Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 11:13 am (CNA). Authorities and media reports on Wednesday morning said a mass shooting had taken place at a Catholic parish…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Washington D.C., Aug 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As lawmakers prepare to return next week from their August recess, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wants them to get to work on…
Telley Sadia, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)’s country representative for Sudan. / Credit: CAFOD ACI Africa, Aug 26, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). The current cholera devastation in Sudan, especially in the country’s Darfur region, is taking a toll on the population already battered by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis following two years…
null / Credit: Ivon19/Wikipedia (public domain) (CC-BY-SA-4.0) CNA Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 14:57 pm (CNA). In nine states and in the nation’s capital, unborn life is not protected at any stage of life. Another 18 states do not protect unborn life until some point in the second trimester of pregnancy. But some states are…
Pope Leo XIV, whose recent discourses will be published in a book on Aug. 27, waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 15:27 pm (CNA). On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo’s discourses from the first months of…
Palestinians gather outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 25, 2025, following Israeli strikes. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 15:57 pm (CNA). Caritas Internationalis issued a statement on “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” following the Israel Defense Forces’…
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, leave the church after a visit to Holy Family Parish in Gaza on July 18, 2025. / Credit: Caritas Jerusalem ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 16:27 pm (CNA). In a joint message released Aug. 26, the Latin and the…
null / Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned states and American territories that they must remove references to “gender ideology” from K–12 education materials or they will lose federal funding. HHS sent letters dated Aug. 26 to 40…
