Cathedrals, churches in Mexico vandalized during International Women’s Day marches — By: Catholic News Agency

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Most Holy Mary of Guadalajara after the International Women’s Day march on March 8, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Guadalajara ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). During marches held March 8 to commemorate International Women’s Day, various Catholic cathedrals and churches in Mexico were vandalized…

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Bishops call for ‘vital’ donations to Catholic Relief Services after federal aid freeze — By: Catholic News Agency

Catholic Relief Services distributes food for school children at one of the schools in the Department of Totonicapán, Guatemala, with the help of parent volunteers. / Credit: Catholic Relief Services Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 11, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops are highlighting what they describe as the “very urgent significance” of this…

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2 more Catholic Charities agencies announce layoffs due to funding freeze — By: Catholic News Agency

Border Patrol vehicle patrols the fence of the international border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. / Credit: Sherry V Smith/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Two more Catholic Charities agencies have announced layoffs in the wake of the Trump administration’s 90-day federal funding freeze. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump issued…

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UK pro-life leaders warn of ‘disaster’ in outsourcing assisted dying to private sector — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock London, England, Mar 11, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Leading pro-life campaigners in England and Wales have expressed alarm following reports that Westminster’s proposed “assisted dying” process might be outsourced to private companies. Following a report in The Times that the U.K. government is considering contracting out assisted death…

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Syrian patriarchs condemn massacres as sectarian violence escalates on Syria’s coast — By: Catholic News Agency

Members of security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government hold up their firearms as they stand by the Mediterranean sea coast in Syria’s western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, called for national unity and peace on March 9 amid growing international backlash following the killing of civilians…

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PHOTOS: Remembering moments of grace and mercy when the COVID pandemic shut the world down — By: Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis speaks in an empty St. Peter’s Square during a Holy Hour and extraordinary urbi et orbi blessing, March 27, 2020. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 pandemic. Days later, on March…

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Prison is where ‘I learned to be a priest,’ chaplain says after 23 years of service — By: Catholic News Agency

Father Raffaele Grimaldi, inspector general of chaplains in Italian prisons. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison of Rebibbia during the Jubilee of Hope, a gesture that the prisoners…

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Pope Francis urges world not to forget countries in need of God’s ‘gift of peace’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Black smoke billows over the city after drone strikes in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Sept. 19, 2023, amid Russia’s military invasion on Ukraine. / Credit: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Since being admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14, Pope Francis has…

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Indian state could introduce the death penalty for religious conversions — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Freedom Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:45 pm (CNA). Leaders in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, home to 72 million people, are considering punishing with the death penalty those who allegedly force people into religious conversion — a change that Christian leaders say could harm the state’s Christians,…

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