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On July 11, 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Michel Guillaud, a priest of the Diocese of Lyon, France, as the new bishop of Hippo in Algeria, St. Augustine’s see. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Bishop-elect Michel Guillaud ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 23, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Constantine-Hippo, located in Algeria…
Algeria’s Imane Khelif (in red) punches Italy’s Angela Carini in the women’s 66kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena in Villepinte on Aug. 1, 2024. / Credit: MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jul 23, 2025 / 12:44 pm (CNA). The United States…
Cardinal Fernando Filoni speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 / Credit: EWTN News Vatican City, Jul 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A longtime Vatican diplomat now dedicated to aiding Christians in the Holy Land recently offered reflections on the Church’s mission in conflict zones and its roots in the Middle…
Father Heriberto García Arias with a group of young people. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Heriberto García Arias Vatican City, Jul 23, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). In the context of the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers, which will be held in Rome July 28–29, Mexican priest Father Heriberto García Arias, author…
Sean Graber, president of EWTN Digital (left), and Peter Gagnon, president of EWTN Studios. / Credit: EWTN Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 16:47 pm (CNA). Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw has announced a new organizational structure to further EWTN’s mission in the digital landscape by enhancing its…
Father Alphonsus Afina. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Fairbanks CNA Staff, Jul 22, 2025 / 14:16 pm (CNA). A Nigerian priest who served for years in the U.S. has been released after being held in captivity by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram for several weeks. Father Alphonsus Afina was captured by…
null / Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Richmond office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on a priest because he refused to discuss private conversations he had with a parishioner who was converting to Catholicism, according to a July 22 report from the House Judiciary…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 15:46 pm (CNA). Massachusetts federal judge Indira Talwani on Tuesday issued a ruling blocking the provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that stopped taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers. In the July 21 ruling, Talwani unilaterally decided that…
The grounds at the Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume. / Credit: Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 16:17 pm (CNA). Tucked away in a rocky mountain in southeast France is a cave formed by natural erosion called La Sainte-Baume. It is one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in the world…
Church property sits vandalized at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Sunday, July 19, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh CNA Staff, Jul 22, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Federal agents are investigating a vandalism incident at a church in the Diocese of…
