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Father Andreas Frick (left) and a CRS official during the SECAM plenary assembly in Rwanda held July 30 to Aug. 4, 2025. / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Aug 5, 2025 / 13:11 pm (CNA). Overseas development agencies, including Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Misereor — the development agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of…
Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd at the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 5, 2025 / 14:16 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit to Ignacio Gonzálvez, a 15-year-old Spanish boy who had been urgently admitted to Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome after collapsing…
For decades, Father Chris Riley transformed thousands of lives through his Youth Off The Streets project in Australia. He died Aug. 1, 2025, at age 70 after a prolonged illness. / Credit: El Pics/ Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Aug 5, 2025 / 10:50 am (CNA). Australians are paying tribute to a prominent priest who passionately…
A gentle cascade of white rose petals falls from the ceiling of the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Aug. 5, 2025, the feast of the dedication of the basilica, evoking “the miracle of the snow” said to have taken place nearly 17 centuries ago. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Aug 5, 2025 /…
Shroud of Turin featuring positive (left) and negative (right) digital filters. / Credit: Dianelos Georgoudis via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 11:54 am (CNA). The guardians of the famed Shroud of Turin are disputing the results of a recent study that purports to disprove the cloth’s origins as the burial shroud of…
null / Credit: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 5, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration may be walking back an earlier plan that would have required insurance companies to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a report from the Washington Post. The Post reported that “two people with…
Entrance to St. Clare’s Monastery in Belorado, Burgos, Spain. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A Spanish court has ruled in favor of the Catholic Church in the eviction lawsuit against the former Poor Clare nuns of Belorado, ordering them to leave the monastery they…
Bishop Robert Barron delivers the keynote address at the Jubilee of Youth’s National U.S. Pilgrim Gathering on July 30, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Word on Fire announced Monday that a new documentary by Bishop…
Damage after the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut explosion. / Credit: Mehr News Agency, CC BY SA 4.0 ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 18:02 pm (CNA). In a new gesture of closeness to the victims of irregular migration, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “profound sorrow” for the…
