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A makeshift memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, is seen at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota. / Credit: Steven Garcia/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). A suspected shooter faces federal charges after he was arrested for the…
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian population in the Middle East, noting that the Christian presence in the region exerts…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (pictured) and Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of the Archdiocese of Tehran–Isfahan in Iran asked for prayers on June 16, 2025, as the conflict between Iran and Israel escalated. / Credit: Courtesy of Custos of the Holy Land Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:40 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders…
Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 16:31 pm (CNA). Cardinal Raymond Burke said he has asked Pope Leo XIV to remove measures restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in…
Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA). Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue state and killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations…
null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 14:19 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the New York Court of Appeals to revisit Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a case challenging a 2017 New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in health insurance plans. The order follows the…
Archbishop Georg Gänswein has been the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 12:49 pm (CNA). Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024, said the region has been disappointed with the current U.S. administration’s approach to the conflict in…
Smoke billows from an explosion in southwest Tehran on June 16, 2025. Iran’s state broadcaster was briefly knocked off the air by an Israeli strike and explosions rang out across Tehran on June 16 after a barrage of Iranian missiles killed 11 people in Israel on the fourth day of an escalating air war. /…
null / Credit: angellodeco/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 13:49 pm (CNA). Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will close its Center for Transyouth Health and Development and its transgender surgical program in July, citing federal and state-level funding pressures. The hospital told families in an email that there was “no viable alternative” to closing…
In 1965, at the close of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI gave Jacques Maritain a message directed to “men of thought and science.” / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 16, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Vatican Museums inaugurated June 12 the exhibition “Paul VI and Jacques Maritain: The Renewal of Sacred…
