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Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil in Iraq. / Credit: ACN ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda recently expressed his concern to the papal foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the war being fought between Israel and Hamas could spread throughout the Middle East….
Sen. Joe Manchin. / Credit: Vasilis Asvestas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 17:06 pm (CNA). West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, the last centrist Catholic Democrat in the U.S. Senate, announced Thursday he isn’t running for reelection next year. “I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will…
Map of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. / Credit: Golden|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 4.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 9, 2023 / 17:39 pm (CNA). Peace talks between the Christian nation Armenia and its Muslim neighbor Azerbaijan hit a snag this week when the Azerbaijani government issued a demand that eight villages along the border…
Luis Manuel Díaz, father of soccer player Luis Díaz (center), along with Francisco Ceballos, bishop of Riohacha (right), and Monsignor Héctor Henao, delegate for Church-state relations, who formed the humanitarian commission in charge of facilitating Díaz’s release. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Colombia ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Colombian…
An aerial view of the León city stadium in Guanajuato state in Mexico, where approximately 22,000 people gathered on Nov. 5, 2023, to participate in the traditional “living rosary,” an expression of faith in search of peace. / Credit: Rosario Viviente León ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Approximately 22,000 people…
Catholics in Jerusalem gather on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, for a prayer vigil to implore from God the gift of peace for their land. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Nov 9, 2023 / 15:37 pm (CNA). Catholics in Jerusalem gathered for a prayer vigil on Thursday, Nov. 9, to implore from God the gift of…
Flag of the People’s Republic of China. / Credit: Yan Ke / Unsplash (CC0) CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 16:12 pm (CNA). China passed a “Patriotic Education Law,” further consolidating the Chinese Communist Party’s control over education, including religious education, state-controlled media outlet Xinhua announced last month. The new law, which was passed during a…
Terminally ill British infant Indi Gregory has been given more time to live after a court on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, gave her family permission to appeal a judge’s decision mandating where her life support can be removed. / Credit: Christian Concern CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 14:16 pm (CNA). A terminally ill British…
After abortion took center stage in elections Tuesday, with Ohio voters passing a constitutional amendment protecting abortion access, U.S. bishops could again find themselves debating next week just how much attention to give abortion in their own teaching documents on Catholics in political life. The bishops will vote next week at the U.S. bishops’ conference…
Pope Francis meets with the leaders of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem at the Vatican on Nov. 9, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Nov 9, 2023 / 13:44 pm (CNA). Pope Francis lamented the innocent deaths in Israel and Palestine during a meeting Thursday with a Catholic order of…
