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Young people gather on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the Jubilee of Youth. / Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Two weeks ago, 1 million young people returned to their countries after participating in the Jubilee of Youth, an experience that undoubtedly left a profound…
A mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2024. / Credit: eyetravelphotos/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2025 / 16:04 pm (CNA). The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the religious liberty implications for women and minorities in Afghanistan four years after the Taliban’s takeover. “Religious freedom conditions in Afghanistan continue…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa tours the war-torn area surrounding Holy Family Church with the parish’s pastor in Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 16:56 pm (CNA). The ongoing violence in the Holy Land, especially now with the war in Gaza, was addressed…
Members of the Catholic nonprofit Strangers No Longer and others march to the Detroit ICE headquarters in July 2025. / Credit: Tom Tomala, Strangers No Longer Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2025 / 14:34 pm (CNA). Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Detroit Field Office recently met with a Catholic migrant aid group and a Democratic…
Worshippers attend a Sunday morning Mass led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on July 20, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:04 pm (CNA). Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the only…
Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Toulouse ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:34 pm (CNA). Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France, has reversed his decision to appoint a priest convicted of rape as chancellor of the archdiocese and asked forgiveness of the victims of…
Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 28, 2017. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Oslo, Norway, Aug 18, 2025 / 12:17 pm (CNA). Cardinal Anders Arborelius issued a pointed call for unity in the Diocese of Stockholm, clarifying the canonical status of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)…
Archbishop Borys Gudziak. / Credit: Screenshot from United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2025 / 13:34 pm (CNA). At the United States-Russia summit, leaders failed to face “the fundamental moral and geopolitical questions” regarding the war in Ukraine, said Archbishop Borys Gudziak, adding that “until they do Ukrainians will be…
Catholic apologist Alex Jurado, known as Voice of Reason on social media. / Credit: Courtesy of Alexandro Jurado CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 14:04 pm (CNA). Breaking his silence one month after facing several allegations, Catholic influencer Alex Jurado in a video message shared to his YouTube channel on Aug. 17 admitted to inappropriately…
Father Jason Wallace (top center) with Archdiocese of Denver seminarians. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Archdiocese of Denver and Vianney Vocations Denver, Colo., Aug 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Archdiocese of Denver asked parishioners to share the names of young men they thought would make good priests. The result? More than 900 names. …
