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St. Mary’s Catholic Preschool in Littleton, Colorado. / Credit: St. Mary Catholic School CNA Staff, Jul 10, 2024 / 14:27 pm (CNA). Two Catholic parishes in Colorado are appealing a June federal court ruling that granted them access to a state preschool program, arguing that though the court ruled in their favor in the matter,…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2024 / 15:55 pm (CNA). A U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) committee chairman’s call for the U.S. government to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism has…
null / Credit: itakdalee/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2024 / 16:25 pm (CNA). President Joe Biden’s administration has shifted its position on sex-change surgeries for minors for the second time this month, now appearing to support surgical gender transitions for people under the age of 18. Neera Tanden, the director of the White House…
Palestinian women react as they look at the badly damaged Latin Patriarchate Holy Family School after it was reportedly hit during Israeli military bombardment in Gaza City on July 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. / Credit: Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jul 10, 2024…
null / Credit: Blue Planet Studio/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Jul 10, 2024 / 10:33 am (CNA). Pope Francis urged artificial intelligence leaders on Wednesday to “protect human dignity in this new era of machines.” In a message to an AI ethics conference in Hiroshima, Japan, with leaders from Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, the United Nations, and representatives…
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage enters St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in St. Louis. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Jul 10, 2024 / 09:33 am (CNA). Pam White was raised Catholic but left the Church in 1984, in part because the homilies weren’t speaking to her. It was the Eucharist — and the fact that…
The front of the Phat Diem Cathedral, Vietnam. / Credit: Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Newsroom, Jul 10, 2024 / 10:03 am (CNA). Eleven Vietnamese Christians, including five Catholics, are reportedly missing from detention, according to a recent report from International Christian Concern (ICC), a U.S.-based advocacy group. The ICC report, released on July 5,…
The entrance into the Franciscan church in Aleppo, Syria, of the twins George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, who were ordained priests on July 6, 2024. The two ordinands are wearing the priestly vestments with which they were clothed during the ordination rite. They were 15 when the war…
Pope Francis greets medical workers administering the vaccine against COVID-19 April 2, 2021. / Credit: Holy See Press Office ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 10, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). “Everything possible must be done to keep the churches open and operational,” said Dr. José María Simón Castellví, president emeritus of the International Federation of Catholic…
Cheryl Sporie, chair of the board of trustees at St. Thomas Aquinas Academy in Marinette, Wisconsin, stands in front of the vacant Garfield Elementary school building in the Marinette School District. Sporie filed a claim against the district on June 25, 2024, urging the district to sell the property after it refused to sell it…
