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A participant in a Women’s March event Jan. 18, 2020, in San Francisco holds a “Pass the Equal Rights Amendment” sign while marching. / Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Nevada Judge Erika Ballou ruled this week that the state must include abortion in its Medicaid program. This ruling effectively…
null / Credit: lazyllama/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 16:27 pm (CNA). The Republican Study Committee (RSC), of which over 80% of House Republicans are members, dedicated a section of its “Fiscal Sanity to Save America” 2025 federal budget proposal to “measures designed to advance the cause of life.” Released on Wednesday, the…
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, speaks at a press conference on the debt limit and the Freedom Caucus’s plan for spending reduction at the U.S. Capitol on March 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Four congressmen in the conservative House Freedom Caucus…
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption in Cap-Haitien, Haiti / Rotorhead 30A Productions/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 22, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Amid the violence racking the country, the Haitian Bishops’ Conference has issued a letter to the faithful that recalls Isaiah’s prophecy: “No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within…
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. / Credit: JLogan via Wikimedia/ Public Domain Rome Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA). European bishops this week called on the institutions of the European Union to embrace greater state-church dialogue and on parliamentary candidates to include Christian principles in their political programs ahead of the bloc’s…
Pope Francis on March 21, 2024, laicized Bishop Emeritus of Bruges, Belgium, Roger Vangheluwe (center), years after the former prelate admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing his nephew when the latter was a minor. / Credit: Carolus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 09:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis has laicized…
Map of Congo. / Shutterstock ACI Africa, Mar 22, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The decision by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to lift a 2003 ban on the death penalty is retrogressive, the local ordinary of the country’s Kinshasa Archdiocese, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, has said. In a statement issued March…
Pope Francis venerates the Salus Populi Romani icon in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Dec. 8, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday issued new regulations for the administration of the papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, placing new emphasis on spiritual work…
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, urges the Supreme Court to restore abortion pill restrictions at a Capitol Hill press conference hosted by Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and August Pfluger, R-Texas, Mar. 21, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments…
null / Carl Ballou / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). A New Hampshire man was charged with the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child, which is the first time the state’s fetal homicide law has ever been invoked. William Kelly, 38, was charged with second-degree murder…
