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On Jan. 7, 2025, two religious sisters were kidnapped in the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria. / Credit: Diego Cervo/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Jan 15, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The two members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, (IHM) who were abducted on Jan. 7 from the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria…
The Vatican City’s Governor’s Palace (Palazzo del Governatorato in Vaticano), the building that is the seat of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State in the Vatican Gardens. / Credit: Some pictures here/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to…
The Catholic Medical Association is arguing that the federal government acted unlawfully when in July 2022 it directed that hospitals and emergency rooms would be required to perform abortions under the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). / Credit: ThamKC/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 14, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). A Catholic medical group…
Ordinandi lie prostrate during the Litany of Saints during an ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sept. 29, 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 14, 2025 / 17:45 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church in Italy generated fresh controversy last week when it published a new document on the formation of priests…
null / Credit: Pavel1964/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 18:05 pm (CNA). A bill to prevent biological males from competing in women’s and girls’ sports passed the United States House of Representatives in a mostly partisan vote Tuesday afternoon. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, sponsored by Rep. Greg…
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta Pedraza, present gifts to Pope Francis during their meeting on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jan 14, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The Biden administration in its final days will remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department’s state…
null / Credit: Andy – Rock News/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The Vatican City State’s first decree regulating the use of artificial intelligence quietly came into effect this month prohibiting discriminatory uses of AI and establishing a special commission to oversee “experimentation” with the new technology at the Vatican. The…
Women baptized by Prem Bhai climb to his memorial singing devotional songs during a 2018 observance of the Catholic missionary. / Credit: Anto Akkara Bangalore, India, Jan 14, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Amid prospects of revival of an anti-conversion law passed in 1978, Christian leaders of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeast India expressed little…
Opus Dei founder St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer in Mexico in 1970. / Credit: Opus Dei/Flickr Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal prelature, has released a lengthy response to the October 2024 book “Opus,” accusing the book of giving “a false picture of Opus…
null / Credit: Freedom Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 14, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The Catholic bishops’ pro-life chair called for forgiveness of women who have had abortions ahead of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, reminding the faithful that “no sin is beyond God’s unfathomable mercy.” Jan. 22 marks the 52nd anniversary of Roe…
