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Pope Francis meets with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder at the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Thursday met with the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, with the leader imploring the…

Paolo Ruffini, president of the synod’s communication commission (left); Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas (center); and Cardinal Michael Czerny (right) at a press briefing on Oct. 19, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Oct 19, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Vatican Cardinal Michael Czerny said Thursday that synodality poses “no danger to the…

Three nuns, a seminarian, and the driver of the vehicle they were in were abducted in Nigeria’s Imo State on Oct. 5, 2023. The nuns’ order, the Missionary Daughters of Mater Ecclesiae, appealed for their safe release in an Oct. 6 statement. The group was released Oct. 13-14, 2023. / Credit: Missionary Daughters of Mater…

Father Björn Lundberg, center, with the tour group he led to the Holy Land in front of the Wedding Church at Cana. / Credit: Bernardo Gonzalez CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Father Björn Lundberg was looking forward to his trip to Israel. A parish priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia,…