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Most Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina. / Credit: Jason Schronce/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every Jan. 3, the Church celebrates the Most Holy Name of Jesus. In the words of St. Bernadine of Siena: “This is that most holy name longed for by the patriarchs,…
Nahida Anton and her daughter Samar Anton were killed as they were walked to the Missionaries of Charity convent in the compound of Holy Family Parish in Gaza on Dec. 16, 2023. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 18:36 pm (CNA). Twenty Catholic missionaries were murdered in 2023, according to…
Attendance at the 2024 Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) SEEK conference topped 19,000, a 28% increase over last year. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Jan 2, 2024 / 17:53 pm (CNA). The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) SEEK24 conference is underway this week in St. Louis with the attendance of more…
Daniel Ortega/Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0)/Facebook Silvio José Báez ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 15:50 pm (CNA). The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua ended 2023 with two bishops, 15 priests, and two seminarians in custody. The most recent arrests…
Pope Francis prays during his general audience address in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 13:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of January is for the gift of diversity in the Church. “There is no…
Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Each month Pope Francis shares a prayer intention as part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. The monthly prayer intentions express the Holy Father’s concerns for humanity and the mission of…
Image of “Santa Muerte,” or “St. Death.” / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Father Andrés Esteban López Ruiz, a member of the College of Exorcists of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, recently warned about the risks of the cult of “Santa Muerte” or “St. Death,” pointing…
Archbishop Georg Gänswein celebrates a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2023, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:48 am (CNA). Friends, scholars, and former colleagues of Pope Benedict XVI gathered in the Campo Santo Teutonico in…
Firefighters inspect collapsed wooden houses in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, a day after a major 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture. / Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:56 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was “deeply saddened” to learn of a devastating earthquake that…
Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. / Credit: Napa Institute CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:10 am (CNA). Jimmy Lai, the embattled Hong Kong Catholic democracy activist, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to all charges leveled against him in his national security trial there. Lai, the Chinese-born founder of the…
