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null / Credit: Amy Lutz/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 19:07 pm (CNA). Villanova University confirmed Thursday that reports of an active shooter on campus that interrupted an opening Mass for new students and their families was a “cruel hoax.” Local police began investigating reports of an active shooter on campus late Thursday afternoon….
James Dobson during an event marking the National Day of Prayer in the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 15:19 pm (CNA). James Dobson, the evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and founder of Focus on the Family, an…
View of the Greek island of Syros. / Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA). Prosecutors on the Greek island of Syros have filed felony charges against two Catholic clerics and six civilians in connection with the alleged embezzlement and money laundering of more than 3…
The Ten Commandments outside the Texas Capitol. / Credit: BLundin via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:12 pm (CNA). A federal judge has partially blocked the state of Texas from enforcing its law ordering the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. In a colorful ruling replete with off-the-cuff…
Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22, coinciding…
Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Knock, Ireland, Aug 21, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). At Ireland’s Knock Shrine, the confessionals are “the engine room,” its rector says, powering this rural Marian apparition site as a place of hope and healing during the jubilee year….
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of the Catholic ministry Word on Fire recently warned about the proliferation of fake videos created…
Participants gather at the Aug. 18, 2025, launch event for a new digital app that will bring together 66 Catholic radio stations in east Africa. Father Don Bosco, editor-in-chief of ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, is pictured in the center. / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Aug 21, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA)….
Some of the damage caused to Christian homes by Muslim extremists in 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Two years after “the worst episode of violence against Christians” in Pakistan’s history, according to the pontifical foundation Aid to the…
Burned vehicles after Good Friday raid on April 7, 2023, in Ngban, Benue state, Nigeria. / Courtesy of Justice, Development, and Peace Commission Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Nigeria is the deadliest country in the world for Christians, according to the new chair of the U.S. Commission on International Freedom…
