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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalia-born American activist, writer, and politician and is known for her views critical of Islam and supportive of women’s rights. / Credit: Christian Marquardt/Getty Images CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2023 / 17:04 pm (CNA). Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a longtime critic of Islam and for years an outspoken atheist, said this…

Baby Indi Gregory was baptized on Sept. 22, 2023. Despite not being religious, Dean Gregory, her father, expressed that his time in court fighting for his daughter’s life felt like he had been “dragged to hell.” The experience moved him to decide to have his daughter baptized. / Credit: Christian Concern CNA Staff, Nov 13,…

Vandalized tombstones are seen at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, Feb. 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. / Credit: DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA). Antisemitic incidents in the United States have skyrocketed by more than 300% year over year in the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war began, the…

Diane Mahoney’s original composition “We Do Believe, O Lord” has been selected as the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress’ official theme song. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diane Mahoney CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Sheet music was made available online last week for the official hymns of the upcoming National Eucharistic Revival,…

The U.S. bishops meet in Baltimore for their annual fall general assembly on Nov. 14-17, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2023 / 14:06 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops will vote this week at the the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall plenary meeting on whether to approve an addition…

A new body created to implement the resolutions of Germany’s “synodal way” has dropped a rule that decisions need the support of two-thirds of bishops as well as two-thirds of lay people. Members of Germany’s “synodal committee” voted Nov. 11 in favor of statutes and rules of procedure establishing that resolutions can be passed with…

Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, speaks to members of the media in the spin room following the third Republican presidential primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on Nov. 8, 2023. / Credit: GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 13, 2023 / 12:43 pm (CNA). South…