Australian bishops call on government to enforce country’s surrogacy ban — By: Catholic News Agency

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is urging lawmakers to prohibit surrogacy in all cases in a letter submitted on July 9, 2025. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has urged the Australian Law Reform Commission to ban all forms of surrogacy, including “altruistic” arrangements,…

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‘A living and discreet Church’: Despite persecution, Catholic faith endures in Saudi Arabia — By: Catholic News Agency

The port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. / Credit: Tahir mq, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In Saudi Arabia, a theocratic monarchy where Islam is the official and only permitted religion, religious freedom does not exist. However, according to data maintained by the Apostolic…

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