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Chega leader Andre Ventura addresses supporters at Marriot Hotel, where the party holds the election night event, in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 10, 2024. / Credit: ANDRE DIAS NOBRE/AFP via Getty Images ACI Digital, Mar 12, 2024 / 19:00 pm (CNA). The defeat of Portugal’s Socialist Party and the success of a populist conservative party…
Breaking News / CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024 / 18:25 pm (CNA). Doctors in England can no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children to facilitate a gender transition, according to an announcement from the country’s public health care system, the National Health Service (NHS). “Puberty blockers … are not available to children and…
null / Credit: timyee/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Latin America is in the midst of a prolonged debate on abortion, with laws varying significantly from country to country and political attempts to decriminalize, legalize, or liberalize the practice. In some Latin American countries — such as El Salvador, Nicaragua,…
The Maine State House in Augusta. / Credit: Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Over a dozen state attorneys general are threatening a possible lawsuit over a bill in the Maine Legislature that extends legal protections to out-of-state residents seeking transgender-related medical procedures. The March 11 letter, signed by 16…
Thousands of people gathered in Times Square for a eucharistic procession in New York City on May 27, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). A group of two dozen young Catholic pilgrims will walk thousands of miles across the United States this summer, carrying Jesus Christ in…
Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako speaks with Rody Sher of ACI MENA. / Credit: ACI Mena ACI MENA, Mar 12, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). As the 21st anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq approaches, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Church, has called for a reevaluation of the country’s…
Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3, 2024, about the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Ukrainian officials and religious…
null / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has ordered the laicization of a North Dakota priest who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in that state. Diocese of Fargo Bishop John Folda said in a statement this month that former priest Neil Pfeifer “received a dispensation from the…
Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. The Pontifical Collection for the Holy Land provides community aid and assistance for parochial activities for Holy Family Parish, the only Roman Catholic parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook Rome Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024…
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced that Catholic writer and speaker Mary Rice Hasson will be a visiting fellow for the school’s Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life. Hasson,…
