Sweden saves historic Arctic church with massive move away from mine — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Vatican approves new patron saints for entire Arabian Peninsula — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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New Frassati Chapel aims to bring perpetual adoration to the nation’s capital — By: Catholic News Agency

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.,…

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English priest presents Our Lady of Persecuted Christians icon to Iraqi bishop — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Appeals court halts sale of Native American religious site defended by Catholic groups — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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