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The Kiruna Church on the move in northern Sweden, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: TorbjørnS/Wikimeda (CC BY 4.0) CNA Newsroom, Aug 20, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Sweden’s beloved Kiruna Church is concluding a carefully choreographed crawl across the Arctic mining town on Wednesday, completing a two-day, 3-mile journey that successfully saved the 113-year-old…
Lebanese Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, the head of the Maronite Catholic Church, gives a homily during the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 9, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 20, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV could visit Lebanon before the end of the year, the leader of the country’s Maronite…
Pope Leo XIV greets a young papal admirer in St. Peter’s Basilica during the general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 20, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday continued his catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope” and invited Catholics around the…
The Arabian Peninsula. / Credit: NASA Images/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). The Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved the new regional calendar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, thereby granting new patron saints for the Arabian Peninsula. The vicariate is a territorial…
Young people walk the streets of Camagüey, Cuba. / Credit: Camagüey Youth Ministry ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). During the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, young people from around the world gathered to celebrate a mosaic of universal faith. In the midst of this gathering, an inevitable question arose for…
Father Charles Gallagher, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., with Auxiliary Bishop Juan R. Esposito-Garcia at the blessing of the Frassati Chapel on Aug. 9, 2025. / Credit: Steve and Bernadette Dalgetty Washington D.C., Aug 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). After years of planning, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.,…
Pope Leo XIV prays at the Marian shrine at Mentorella on Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media National Catholic Register, Aug 19, 2025 / 18:43 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV made a private visit Tuesday to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mentorella, Mother of Graces, near Rome, underscoring his devotion to the Blessed…
Bishop Benedictus Hanno receives the Our Lady of Persecuted Christians icon in Qaraqosh, Iraq, on Aug. 6, 2025, from Father Benedict Kiely of Nasarean.org. / Credit: Father Benedict Kiely ACI MENA, Aug 19, 2025 / 14:03 pm (CNA). Marking the 11th anniversary of forced displacement of Christians in Iraq, Father Benedict Kiely presented an icon…
Pope Leo XIV blesses the crowd at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Basilica on Aug. 13, 2025, at the Vatican. Due to the heat, the pope gave his address in Paul VI Audience Hall but also greeted pilgrims in other locations. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2025 / 14:33…
The Catholic bishops are backing a suit by a coalition of Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, in their lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit argues that their freedom of religion was violated when the federal government announced its intention to sell formerly protected land in Arizona to a mining…
