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Participants in the 2023 National Youth Pilgrimage to the Christ the King statue high atop Cubilete in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Isaacvp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:40 pm (CNA). With the theme “We ask for citizen participation, we demand religious freedom,” thousands…

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Ivory Coast (CECCI). / Credit: CECCI Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Bishops in several African countries will not allow blessings for same-sex couples as opposition to a Vatican declaration continues to grow on the continent, but bishops globally remain heavily divided on implementation. More than two…

A doctor carries out a medical examination of Bishop Rolando Álvarez on Jan. 2, 2024. / Credit: Government of Nicaragua ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The dictatorship in Nicaragua headed by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, on Jan. 2 released recent images of the bishop…

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Amid significant confusion about the Vatican’s recent guidance on same-sex blessings, the document’s architect has lashed out at those advancing the most liberal interpretation: Catholic leadership in Germany.  Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery…

null / MK Feeney|Flickr|CC BY 2.0 DEED CNA Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA). The Franciscan Friars of California announced this week that they have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over dozens of sexual abuse allegations filed against the religious order. The Franciscans of the Province of St. Barbara, founded in 1915 in…

A man walks the Camino de Santiago in Spain. / Credit: Jorge Luis Ojeda Flota via Unsplash CNA Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Pilgrims walking the famous Camino de Santiago have reached a new record. In 2023, nearly half a million people from around the world hiked this historic route. According to…