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null / Credit: Carlos Perez via Cathopic Rome Newsroom, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:50 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office published a letter on Thursday confirming that single mothers can receive Communion after going to confession and urging the need for further “pastoral work” in parts of the world where single mothers might still face…

Pope Francis at the General Audience at the Vatican on Dec. 6, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 14, 2023 / 14:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Thursday urged global leaders to adopt an international treaty to regulate the development and use of artificial intelligence, saying technological research must be directed…

A map of Nigeria. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:17 pm (CNA). More than two dozen human rights advocates are urging Congress to call on the State Department to put Nigeria back on a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. In 2020, the State Department designated Nigeria a…

Smoke billows over the northern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment from southern Israel on Dec. 14, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. / Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 11:35 am (CNA). The U.S. has seen a continued and “terrifying” spike in antisemitic incidents…

Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), better known by her religious name Sister Ana de Jesús, helped expand the Discalced Carmelites to France and Belgium. Painting in the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, Brussels, ca. 1650. / Credit: AnonymousUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Dec 14, 2023 / 10:55 am (CNA)….