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The “Holy Fire” is passed from inside Christ’s tomb to pilgrims gathered inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jersusalem on May 4, 2024, for the annual Orthodox Christian ceremony, held on the day before Easter, according to the Julian calendar. / Credit: Marinella Bandini/CNA Jerusalem, May 5, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pilgrims…
Pope Francis greets the crowd gathered at St. Peter’s Square on May 5, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 5, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis asked for a moment of silence as he spoke from the window of the Apostolic Palace on Sunday for people to thank the Lord for their…
Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Archdiocese of Luanda. / Credit: Radio Ecclesia ACI Africa, May 5, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Archdiocese of Luanda has asked the people of God under his pastoral care to dedicate the last Sunday of the month to adoration…
A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú. / Credit: Asociación de las Bienaventuranzas (Association of the Beatitudes) ACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In the context of the recent news of the death of Ana Estrada, the first person to request…
Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around…
Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Boston, Mass., May 4, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21-year-old Marla Lucas’ eyes filled with tears at the sight of…
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain…
Father Greg Boyle gives an address at “We ♥ LA: An Urban Retreat for LA’s Passionate Leaders” in 2010. / Credit: durfeefoundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated…
null / Gutzemberg / Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A priest in Chicago last month blessed a same-sex couple, saying that the Vatican’s recent document Fiducia Supplicans authorized such blessings. Father Joseph Williams, the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish near downtown Chicago, is seen in an April 22…
Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every May 3, drawing attention to the importance of free…
