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Pope Francis appears in the window of the Apostolic Palace to give his Sunday Angelus address on Jan. 14, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 14, 2024 / 08:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis made a strong appeal for peace on Sunday calling modern warfare “a crime against humanity” that sows death among civilians…

Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez, at right in the background, and Father Edwing Román, foreground center, both of the Archdiocese of Managua in Nicaragua, process into St. Vincent de Paul Church in Exposition Park in Los Angeles for Mass on Jan. 6, 2024. / Credit: Victor Alemán/Angelus News Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 14, 2024 / 07:00…

Consecration of Munkeby monastery church, Norway, on Dec. 5, 2023. / Credit: Ivan Vu/Trondheim Diocese Trondheim, Norway, Jan 14, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian Sea.  The…

Worshipers in front of the Latin church dedicated to the Baptism of Jesus, in the locality known as “Bethany beyond the Jordan,” at the exit of the Mass of the Feast of Baptism, on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Amman, Jordan, Jan 13, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). For two thousand years,…