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GOP Presidential Candidate Chris Christie at a town Hall in Bedford, New Hampshire on Dec. 19, 2023. / Credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, once an opponent of same-sex marriage, said Thursday his views on the matter have shifted, citing the Vatican’s recent…

Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA). President Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship in Nicaragua has arrested three more priests: Monsignor Carlos Avilés, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Managua; Father Héctor Treminio, pastor of Holy Christ Parish in  Esquipulas, in the same archdiocese; and Father…

Pope Francis meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on May 13, 2023, their first meeting since the start of the full-scale war with Russia. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three days after Christmas…

A prayer meeting organized by the Taizé community. / Credit: Christian Pulfrich, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, Wikimedia CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis urged young people attending the 46th European Meeting organized by the ecumenical monastic community Taizé to “dare to build a different world, a world of listening, dialogue,…

Zubair Simonson, O.F.S., is a convert who was raised Muslim. / Credit: The Journey Home/EWTN Global Catholic Network Lima Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Christmas is a time of reconciliation. God himself chose to become a man, coming into the world to save fallen humanity and reconcile it with himself. Christmas represents…

Pope Benedict XVI on May 11, 2010. / Credit: Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk Rome Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). One year after the death of Pope Benedict XVI, scholars, experts, and friends of the late pontiff will meet in Rome on Dec. 30–31 in the Benedict XVI Hall of the Campo Santo Teutonico at the…

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III. / Credit: Ben P L from Provo, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 12:20 pm (CNA). With some African bishops expressing concerns about the Vatican’s new same-sex blessing declaration, one prominent black Pentecostal leader is voicing his “solidarity” with African Catholics and…