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Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Middle Diocese – TV Merced ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 17:42 pm (CNA). Two new reports are out detailing human rights violations in Nicaragua, one focusing on religious freedom and the other citing 870 attacks specifically targeting the Catholic Church. On Aug. 13, the human rights watchdog group…
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at Prince George’s Community College on Aug. 15, 2024, in Largo, Maryland. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 16, 2024 / 18:02 pm (CNA). Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to increase the child tax credit for parents and establish a…
A woman walks in the rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 24, 2022. The United Nations Security Council is considering an international intervention in Haiti to open up an aid corridor. / Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 16:59 pm (CNA). The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti that has…
Galway Bishop Michael Duignan said in a statement on Friday that the news of the stabbing of a Catholic chaplain was “deeply shocking and upsetting.” / Credit: Olliebailie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Military authorities in Ireland are investigating the stabbing of a Catholic chaplain…
null / Credit: JHVEPhoto|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 14:20 pm (CNA). The treasurer of Louisiana is calling for Bank of America to be blocked from handling state government deposits due to reports that the institution is “deliberately denying banking services” to religious customers. The bank, meanwhile, is sharply disputing what it calls “factually…
On the Vatican website, the Holy See’s communications department used a picture of a Rupnik mosaic of the dormition of Mary at the top of an article for the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary on Aug. 15, 2024. / Credit: Screenshot from Vatican News Rome Newsroom, Aug 16, 2024 / 13:32 pm (CNA). Despite…
St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Dunedin, New Zealand. / Credit: James Dignan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Newsroom, Aug 16, 2024 / 12:12 pm (CNA). An independent assessment of Catholic safeguarding protocols in New Zealand has highlighted significant progress in many areas while also pointing to the need for further improvements, according to a report released…
null / Credit: Vinokurov Kirill/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 10:57 am (CNA). A New Jersey diocese and five immigrant priests are suing the U.S. Department of State over a federal rule they say will soon force the priests to leave the United States for want of immigrant visas. The priests from the Diocese…
Vatican peace envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi spoke Aug. 14, 2024, with Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, about the Russia-Ukraine war. The phone conversation was the most recent step in the Vatican’s continued diplomatic efforts to promote lasting peace in the region. / Credit: Roberto Serra – Iguana Press/Getty Images; JADE GAO/AFP via…
Several mobs attacked Christian communities and set fire to several churches Aug. 16, 2023, in the town of Jaranwala, in Pakistan’s Faisalabad district, after two Christians were accused of defiling the Quran. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need International CNA Newsroom, Aug 16, 2024 / 09:57 am (CNA). One year…
