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The small procession of Franciscan friars, with the Custos of the Holy Land, arrives in Manger Square, in front of the Basilica of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on Saturday, Dec. 2, the day of the solemn entrance for the beginning of Advent. The Square, typically crowded with local believers and pilgrims, was empty. Dec. 2,…

null / Unsplash. ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Marie Stopes International opened a clinic Nov. 23 in Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, raising concerns among pro-life leaders about what has been locally called “death tourism.” Marie Stopes International offers “sexual and reproductive health services, including legal interruption…

Archbishop Timothy Broglio blesses the doors to be used as a Holy Door for the 2025 Jubilee Year at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 3, 2023. / Credit: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Washington D.C., Dec 4, 2023 / 16:10…

A member of the maintenance crew at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., places a seal on the Holy Door at the basilica after Archbishop Timothy Broglio blessed the seal and doors on Dec. 3, 2023. / Credit: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception…

Pope Francis at his general audience on Nov. 22, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 14:02 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has added his signature to an “interfaith statement” meant to call attention to what the Holy Father and other advocates say is the ongoing crisis of climate change threatening much…

Turin Cathedral. / Credit: Eccekevin |Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Climate activists in Italy over the weekend disrupted a Mass celebrated by Turin Archbishop Roberto Repole, with the demonstrators reading from Pope Francis’ works on the environment during the incident.  Activists with the climate group Extinction Rebellion appeared…