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null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 14, 2023 / 15:24 pm (CNA). In an overwhelming vote on Thursday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one without House amendments that would have banned military spending on abortion and sex change surgeries. The compromise NDAA…
null / Credit: Carlos Perez via Cathopic Rome Newsroom, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:50 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office published a letter on Thursday confirming that single mothers can receive Communion after going to confession and urging the need for further “pastoral work” in parts of the world where single mothers might still face…
Pope Francis at the General Audience at the Vatican on Dec. 6, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 14, 2023 / 14:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Thursday urged global leaders to adopt an international treaty to regulate the development and use of artificial intelligence, saying technological research must be directed…
A map of Nigeria. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:17 pm (CNA). More than two dozen human rights advocates are urging Congress to call on the State Department to put Nigeria back on a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. In 2020, the State Department designated Nigeria a…
Smoke billows over the northern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment from southern Israel on Dec. 14, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. / Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 11:35 am (CNA). The U.S. has seen a continued and “terrifying” spike in antisemitic incidents…
Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), better known by her religious name Sister Ana de Jesús, helped expand the Discalced Carmelites to France and Belgium. Painting in the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, Brussels, ca. 1650. / Credit: AnonymousUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Dec 14, 2023 / 10:55 am (CNA)….
Supporters of Blessed Wenceslao Pedernera listen during the final hearing on Dec. 11, 2023, of the trial for his 1976 murder in La Rioja, Argentina. / Credit: Diocese of La Rioja ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 13, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). After seven months of hearings, the trial for the murder 47 years ago of…
The lighting of the first Hanukkah candle during the interfaith event organized by the Kehilat Zion on the first night of Hanukkah on Dec. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 14, 2023 / 05:30 am (CNA). On the first evening of Hanukkah, Dec. 7, under a large tent in Jerusalem, an…
Bishop Earl K. Fernandes of Columbus, Ohio, and Bishop Paul J. Bradley, apostolic administrator of Steubenville, Ohio. / Credit: Diocese of Steubenville/Archdiocese of Cincinnati National Catholic Register, Dec 13, 2023 / 17:25 pm (CNA). The bishops who lead the dioceses of Columbus and Steubenville in Ohio could present a merger plan to the U.S. Conference…
Bishop Emeritus José Luis Azcona at the 56th general assembly of the CNBB in Aparecida, San Pablo, in 2018. / Credit: CNBB ACI Digital, Dec 13, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The apostolic nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, has asked Bishop Emeritus José Luis Azcona Hermoso to no longer live in the territory of…
