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A man tends to his goats in a village in Kerala, India. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Hundreds of thousands of Indian Catholics are petitioning the government to improve living conditions there. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Congress presented Kerala state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with the petition late last…
Catholic pilgrims from Hong Kong came to see the pope at the welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 2, 2023. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). Freedom of religion is “deteriorating” in Hong Kong, and the United States — along with other democracies —…
Father Jude Nwachukwu (left) and Father Kenneth Kanwa were kidnapped from their parish rectory in the Diocese of Pankshin in Nigeria on Feb. 1, 2024. / Credit: Ahiara Diocese ACI Africa, Feb 6, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). A religious missionary order in Nigeria is appealing for the safe release of two of its members…
The funeral of Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik on Jan. 31, 2024, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Jai Agnish CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The tragic suicide of a beloved sheriff in a small county in…
Helen Alvaré, shown in her Maryland home, encourages Catholics “to give a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pt 3:15) as they work to defend Church teaching on the dignity of life and family issues. / Credit: Joe Portolano/National Catholic Register Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). When the…
Archbishop Emeritus Héctor Aguer of La Plata, Argentina. / Credit: Argentine Episcopal Conference ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 5, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Héctor Aguer, the archbishop emeritus of La Plata, Argentina, criticized two cardinals who have expressed their support for the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which allows for the blessing of homosexual couples. In…
A woman was seen paying tribute to victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks at a cemetery in Negombo, Sri Lanka. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 5, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is set to begin the canonization process for the hundreds of faithful killed in…
Then-Prince Charles greets archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols during a reception for the Cardinal Newman Canonization at Pontifical Urban College on Oct. 13, 2019, at the Vatican. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 5, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal…
Pope Francis with Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery of Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments, at the consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica, Aug. 27, 2022 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Feb 5, 2024 / 15:10 pm (CNA). The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will hold its…
Pope Francis at the Nagasaki Martyrs’ Monument on Nishizaka Hill Nov. 24, 2019. / Vatican Media. ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 5, 2024 / 15:40 pm (CNA). In the 16th century, a young Franciscan friar from Mexico was blown off course en route back to his homeland from the Philippines, landing on the shores of Japan….
