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The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 /…
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during an audience with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Vatican on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV during a Friday audience at the Vatican reminded…
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2025 / 14:22 pm (CNA). Life-affirming organizations are calling on the Trump administration and Congress to permanently block funding to Planned Parenthood. In an Oct. 22 letter, Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins and more than 50 signers asked President…
Torture intersects with religious freedom violations worldwide, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says in an October 2025 report. / Credit: Sahana M S/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2025 / 15:37 pm (CNA). Governments around the world continue to violate religious freedom and breach international law by engaging in torture and other cruel,…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). A federal judge struck down a regulation imposed by President Joe Biden’s administration, saying the administration was “redefining sex discrimination.” The Biden administration adopted the rule through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. The ACA authorized…
null / Credit: Blue Mist Film Studios/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Oct 24, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA). A Catholic priest in Burkina Faso has appealed for prayers for the safe release of an evangelical Christian missionary abducted in Niger on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Kevin Rideout, an American missionary, was abducted from his home in the country’s…
Marta Petrosillo, editor-in-chief of the Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Religious Freedom Report. / Credit: Gael Kerbaol/Secours Catholique Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2025 / 09:14 am (CNA). The author of Aid to the Church in Need’s 2025 Religious Freedom Report, Marta Petrosillo, is coming to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s…
The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 /…
A member of the Tunisia’s national guard stops a fishing boat in the sea bordering Tunisia and Libya as they check vessels for illegal migrants trying to reach Europe, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. / Credit: FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images EWTN News, Oct 24, 2025 / 10:14 am (CNA). The sinking of yet another migrant boat off…
Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec. / Credit: Nitra Diocese Rome, Italy, Oct 24, 2025 / 10:44 am (CNA). Cardinal Ján Korec, a Jesuit and secret bishop during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, died 10 years ago on Oct. 24, 2015. He was 91. Even nonbelievers have recognized his life as a heroic testimony of faith. Born…
