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People queue to buy food in Havana on March 27, 2024. Claims of lack of food coupled with long blackouts, which affected almost the entire Cuban population in recent weeks, led hundreds of people to demonstrate on March 17 in at least four cities in the country, in the largest protests recorded since the historic…

Father Marcel Uwineza. / Credit: Sister Olga Massango/Daughters of St. Paul ACI Africa, Apr 20, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Women who were sexually assaulted, infected with diseases, and forced into exile, among other brutalities during the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, remain deeply scarred three decades later, and their stories must be told, a Rwandan-born…

Blessed Elena Guerra. / Credit: Oblates of the Holy Spirit Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Elena Guerra, paving the way for the canonization of a new female saint known as “an apostle of the Holy Spirit.” A friend of…

After David Smallbone’s successful music company collapses in their home country of Australia, he moves his family to Nashville, Tennessee, in the hopes of a brighter future in the movie “Unsung Hero.” / Credit: Lionsgate CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). St. Teresa of Calcutta once said: “If you want to change…

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California. / Credit: Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2024 / 07:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis has named Father Reynaldo Bersabal as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento, California.  The Vatican announced on Saturday that the priest ordained in the Philippines and incardinated into the Sacramento…

Students participating in the CEDE workshop for St. John’s College High School gather for a group photo at the basilica at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in November 2022. / Credit: Photo courtesy of CUA CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). When Luke Burgis moved to Silicon Valley to start…