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null / Credit: GBALLGIGGSPHOTO/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2025 / 16:49 pm (CNA). The legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada has led to disproportionately high rates of premature deaths among vulnerable groups, according to a recent Cardus Health report. Cardus Health, an organization that aims to foster a social system that…
Widows Norma Pérez and Olga Pallares. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Sep 17, 2025 / 17:19 pm (CNA). Norma Pérez, a widow for five years, and Olga Pallares, a widow for two, have experienced the piercing visceral pain of losing a loved one. Friends for over 30 years, they have managed to cast…
View of the San Diego skyline. / Credit: russellstreet, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 13:19 pm (CNA). A deacon in San Diego told parishioners last week that he will voluntarily deport himself after his residency status was revoked by the U.S. government. The deacon reportedly made the announcement…
Nigeria is “sinking in many fronts,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has said. / Credit: Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria ACI Africa, Sep 17, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Nigeria is “sinking in many fronts,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) said at a…
The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the Mexican flag. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). In a country “bled dry by violence, confused by ideologies, and threatened in its institutions,” the Catholic Church offered a prayer “to God and to our Most Holy…
null / Credit: Zolnierek/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). An appellate court in Mississippi dismissed an employment-related lawsuit brought against an agency of the Southern Baptist Convention, ruling that a secular court cannot intervene in matters of religious governance. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi ruled…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 17, 2025 / 10:18 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday condemned the “unacceptable conditions” faced by civilians in Gaza and called for a ceasefire, the release…
Four members of the Missionary Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (MCST) in Tanzania lost their lives in a road accident in the country’s Archdiocese of Mwanza on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Suore Carmelitane Missionarie Italia Malta Romania ACI Africa, Sep 17, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Four members of the Missionary…
null / Credit: HQuality/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A new Lifeway Research study reveals that a slim majority of Americans, 51%, believe terminally ill individuals should have the right to request physician-assisted suicide. The study, titled “American Views on Assisted Suicide,” found that 51% of respondents consider it morally acceptable…
St. Hildegard of Bingen. / Credit: Lettera43.it, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, Pope Benedict XVI said in a general audience back in 2010 when he focused his catechesis on the…
