Venezuelan authorities prevent Cardinal Porras from traveling, cancel passport  — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Caracas, Venezuela, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). On Dec. 10 Venezuelan immigration police confiscated and invalidated the passport of Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as he was preparing to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. According to the…

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U.S. House passes defense bill stripped of IVF provision — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 10, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The House passed a defense authorization bill Dec. 10 without a provision to allow health care coverage of in vitro fertilization for active-duty military.  Pro-life groups cheered the provision’s removal from the bill. The original bill would have required Defense…

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Catholic colleges in Bangladesh threatened over conversion claims — By: Catholic News Agency

Notre Dame College in Mymensingh district, Bangladesh / Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 10, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The president of the Bangladesh Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Bejoy D’Cruze of Dhaka, has expressed concern after threats against two prominent Catholic colleges posed “a grave concern for the Catholic Church,” particularly ahead of…

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Catholic bishops in Europe express concern over EU ruling mandating recognition of same-sex unions — By: Catholic News Agency

The flag of the European Union. / Credit: U. J. Alexander/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 12:35 pm (CNA). The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has expressed concern about a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which obliges all member states to recognize…

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Disability advocates sue Delaware over allegedly ‘discriminatory’ assisted suicide law  — By: Catholic News Agency

“For patients with serious disabilities, this law will put us at risk of deadly discrimination,” says Daniese McMullin-Powell, a polio survivor who has used a wheelchair for most of her life. / Credit: Institute for Patients’ Rights CNA Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 06:10 am (CNA). Several disability and patient advocacy groups filed a lawsuit…

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‘Persecuted and thriving’: Catholic priest on resilience of Christians in Nigeria — By: Catholic News Agency

Father Maurice Emelu, now a U.S. citizen and founder of Gratia Vobis Ministries, told EWTN Germany recently that faith in Nigeria has the extraordinary ability to blossom “in harsh soil.” / Credit: Christian Peschken/EWTN Germany ACI Africa, Dec 10, 2025 / 08:20 am (CNA). Christians in Nigeria continue to demonstrate resilience and vitality amid violent…

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Citing papal teaching, Poland bans Communist Party over totalitarian ideology — By: Catholic News Agency

Entrance to the building of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal / Credit: Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl) EWTN News, Dec 10, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal unanimously ruled Dec. 3 that the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), founded in 2002, is incompatible with the nation’s 1997 constitution, citing papal encyclicals…

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Pope Leo XIV criticizes transhumanism: ‘Death is not opposed to life’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during a Jubilee audience on Nov. 22, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Dec 10, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday rejected technological promises to indefinitely prolong human existence — such as those proposed by “transhumanism”— and said the resurrection of…

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