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“We cannot remain silent while this dictator closes [1,500] NGOs, suffocating civil society and violating the rights of thousands of citizens,” said Felix Maradiaga, shown here during an interview with AFP in Managua on Feb. 11, 2021. / Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 16:06 pm (CNA). The dictatorship…
Migrants mostly from Central America wait in line to cross the border at the Gateway International Bridge into the U.S. from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, on June 4, 2024. / Credit: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 16:36 pm (CNA). A new analysis by the Pew Research Center has…
Cardinal Peter Erdö. / Credit: Thaler Tamas, CC 30/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 17:06 pm (CNA). Cardinal Peter Erdö, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, said that faith is the most important thing in life, something he learned from his parents, most clearly during the years of communist rule in the European country. In…
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. / Credit: Gio Canto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 15:06 pm (CNA). With Claudia Sheinbaum set to take office as Mexico’s new president on Oct. 1, Catholic Church leadership in the country’s capital is calling on elected officials…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, discussed prospects for peace in the war in Gaza Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in a conversation with Bernhard Scholz, president of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples Foundation. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Meeting for Friendship Amongst People Rome Newsroom, Aug…
Terrorist attacks in Benue State, Nigeria, have forced residents to flee their villages and, in some cases, seek shelter in local Catholic churches and schools. Pictured here is St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Yelewata. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father William Shom Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 20, 2024 / 12:29 pm (CNA). More than 70…
Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 11:21 am (CNA). In his prayer of invocation at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention…
null / Credit: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Catholic organizations at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are banding together to host a forum with policymakers and leading voices on nuclear disarmament and deterrence. The “Forum on Nuclear Strategy: Disarmament and Deterrence…
St. Bernard of Clairvaux. / Credit: Sistermaryhelen, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every year on Aug. 20, the Catholic Church honors St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th-century monk who helped to build up the Cistercian order — some of whom are known today as the Trappists. Bernard…
Archbishop Thomas Wenski speaks at the blessing ceremony for the Little School on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Miami and La Salle Education Center CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA). A Catholic school for low-income and agricultural migrant families opened its doors in a Miami…
