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null / Credit: Deemerwha studio/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 18:13 pm (CNA). After a man fired over a hundred bullets into a Minneapolis Catholic Church killing two children and injuring 17 others, thousands of mourners packed into an archdiocesan vigil to pray for the victims and their families with Archbishop Bernard Hebda…
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 18:52 pm (CNA). News this week of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement sparked positive commentary from a wide cross-section of Catholics on social media, who anticipate a…
The Shrine of John the Baptist at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, believed to house the head of the saint. / Creidt: Photo courtesy of ACI MENA ACI MENA, Aug 29, 2025 / 14:36 pm (CNA). Each year on Aug. 29, the Church commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist, as recounted in the…
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Stampa, Aug 29, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA). Cardinal Kurt Koch and Patriarch Bartholomew I, Eastern Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, addressed…
Pharrell Williams (left) and Andrea Bocelli. / Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Jakub Janecki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Aug 29, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA). Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and American songwriter Pharrell Williams will direct a concert featuring musicians John Legend, Teddy Swims, Jelly Roll, Karol G, BamBam, and Angélique Kidjo…
Over $1 million has been raised through a GoFundMe campaign for victims of the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 12:21 pm (CNA). Numerous online fundraising campaigns have raised well over $1 million to help support victims…
Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 29, 2025, appointed Father Andres Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of San Jose Vatican City, Aug 29, 2025 / 14:06 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday appointed Father Andres Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese…
Time Magazine named Pope Leo XIV (pictured in the Paul VI Audience Hall) one of its Top 100 most influential thinkers concerning AI on Aug. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Time Magazine included Pope Leo XIV in its 2025 list of the “World’s Most…
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega (whose image is regularly displayed in public places) has perpetrated more than 1,000 attacks on the Catholic Church and banned more than 16,500 religious processions, according to a report released Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Barna Tanco/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 10:24 am (CNA). The dictatorship of President…
null / Credit: ArtOlympic/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news in the United States: Illinois man faces homicide charge after allegedly poisoning girlfriend, unborn child with abortion pill A 31-year-old Illinois man has been arrested for homicide of an unborn child after…
