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The funeral for Pope Benedict XVI, a statue that survived an earthquake, the remarkably well preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, and Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, were among the top Catholic stories of 2023. / Credit: Paul Badde/EWTN; Facebook Antuan Ilgit SJ; Kelsey Wicks/CNA; Pablo Pilco/EWTN News CNA Staff, Dec…
Tia, Miriam, Emanuel, and Josias (left to right) from the St. Lorenz Catholic Parish in Kempten, Diocese of Augsburg, Germany, December 2023. / Credit: Nicolas Schnall/Kindermissionswerk Frankfurt, Germany, Dec 31, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). For over half a century, every year in Germany — as well as in Switzerland and Austria — hundreds of…
A screen grab from a video shared with ACI Africa that shows the parish house at St. Raphael Fadan Kamantan Catholic Church of the Diocese of Kafanchan in flames Sept. 7, 2023. / Credit: ACI Africa CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 09:55 am (CNA). Christians have been persecuted by adversarial groups since the time…
Pope Francis waves at the crowd of 1.5 million people who attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal on Aug. 6, 2023. / Vatican Media. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis maintained a busy travel schedule in 2023, visiting six different countries on three…
Children of Afghan immigrants to St. Louis play during a holiday party on Dec. 9, 2023. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Dec 30, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Despite dominating the news cycle for months in 2021, the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the plight of the thousands of people who…
GOP Presidential Candidate Chris Christie at a town Hall in Bedford, New Hampshire on Dec. 19, 2023. / Credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, once an opponent of same-sex marriage, said Thursday his views on the matter have shifted, citing the Vatican’s recent…
Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA). President Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship in Nicaragua has arrested three more priests: Monsignor Carlos Avilés, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Managua; Father Héctor Treminio, pastor of Holy Christ Parish in Esquipulas, in the same archdiocese; and Father…
A prayer meeting organized by the Taizé community. / Credit: Christian Pulfrich, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, Wikimedia CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis urged young people attending the 46th European Meeting organized by the ecumenical monastic community Taizé to “dare to build a different world, a world of listening, dialogue,…
Pope Francis meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on May 13, 2023, their first meeting since the start of the full-scale war with Russia. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three days after Christmas…
Zubair Simonson, O.F.S., is a convert who was raised Muslim. / Credit: The Journey Home/EWTN Global Catholic Network Lima Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Christmas is a time of reconciliation. God himself chose to become a man, coming into the world to save fallen humanity and reconcile it with himself. Christmas represents…
