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The German Parliament building in Berlin. / Credit: canadastock/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 8, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Leading German pro-life advocates are criticizing a new law passed by Germany’s federal Parliament on Friday to establish 100-meter “buffer zones” around abortion facilities, calling it an attack on democracy and an attempt to silence Christians and…
Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica, the seat of the Archbishop of Agana, Guam. / Credit: Public domain Vatican City, Jul 8, 2024 / 11:33 am (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Ryan Jimenez to lead the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agaña on the island of Guam, transferring the 52-year-old Filipino from the neighboring Northern Mariana…
Members of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) during a July 4, 2024, press conference. / Credit: AMECEA ACI Africa, Jul 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Members of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) have expressed their commitment to creating an environment that ensures the safeguarding…
null / Credit: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 8, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Complying with a 2021 directive from President Joe Biden, the U.S. State Department has released its third annual whole of government “progress report” on advancing what it calls the “human rights” of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex…
An image of the annunciation and the incarnation — when God became man in the womb of the Virgin Mary — was placed close to the altar during a Mass Pope Francis celebrated on July 7, 2024, in Trieste, Italy. The pope was in Trieste to attend the last morning of a July 3-7 Catholic…
The Archdiocese of Kisumu has formed a group called “St. Monica Widows” for women who have lost their husbands “because the other option is they are inherited” by a male relative of the deceased husband, Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba said. / Credit: “EWTN News in Depth”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 7, 2024 / 07:00 am…
Pope Francis speaks at the 50th annual Social Week of Catholics in Trieste, Italy, on the morning of July 7, 2024. At his arrival in the northern Italian city, he was greeted by Archbishop Luigi Renna, president of the organizing committee (R), and Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference (L). /…
Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus, Ohio, carries the Blessed Sacrament during a procession at Pickaway Correctional Institution on June 28, 2024, at one of the stops on the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. / Credit: Catholic Times/Ken Snow Columbus, Ohio, Jul 7, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The four routes of the National…
“Abortion isn’t wrong because the Catholic Church says it’s wrong,” Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, pointed out. “The Catholic Church says it’s wrong because it’s inherently wrong.” / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Jul 6, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). As the 2024 U.S. presidential election heats up, a Wisconsin bishop is calling…
Documents from the Pontificate of Pius XII released by the Vatican Apostolic Archive. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Jul 6, 2024 / 09:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis has named an Augustinian priest as the new prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, which preserves Church documents dating back to the eighth century. The Vatican announced…
