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The ecumenical World Day of Pray was held on the island of Roratonga in the Cook Islands on March 7, 2025. / Credit: Svetype26|Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Mar 7, 2025 / 11:35 am (CNA). The Cook Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean, hosted this year’s ecumenical World Day of Prayer on March 7, bringing together…

A Muslim chaplain prays during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. / Credit: DVIDSHUB via Flickr, CC BY 20 Vatican City, Mar 7, 2025 / 12:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican has expressed its solidarity with Muslims participating in the Ramadan fast, noting that Catholics also fast and do penance during the season of Lent and…

Maria Zuber, an American planetary scientist involved in multiple NASA missions (left), and Meng Anming, a Chinese developmental biologist specializing in embryonic research, are among five new members whom Pope Francis has appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican announced March 7, 2025. / Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons;…

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 7, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron during his visit to the nation’s capital this week to attend President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress called on Catholic politicians…