Pope Francis prayed for the repose of the souls of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals and bishops who died in the past year during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 3, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 3, 2023 / 07:05 am (CNA). At a Mass for Pope Benedict XVI…
Credit: Selbe via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 10:28 am (CNA). A group of Democratic senators is asking the White House to require insurance companies to cover over-the-counter (OTC) hormonal birth control, which was recently approved by federal regulators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July approved the first nonprescription oral…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, imparts the blessing in front of the aedicule of the Holy Sepulcher on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, where Jesus’ tomb is venerated. Here ends the Way of the Cross that the Franciscan friars celebrate every Friday. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Nov 3, 2023 / 11:49 am (CNA)….
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Diocese of Sokoto in Nigeria. / Credit: CTV Nigeria ACI Africa, Nov 3, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). A lack of security is impoverishing the Church in Nigeria, the bishop of Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese said this week, noting that in the northern part of the country alone, more than…
null / Stephen Velsaso via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0), filter added. CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 16:14 pm (CNA). Off-year elections in two Southern states are set to take place next week, with big money being spent by pro-abortion lobbies in traditionally Republican strongholds and candidates sparring with each other over abortion more than…
Students for Life activists tabling at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Students for Life of America Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 3, 2023 / 17:01 pm (CNA). As Election Day in Ohio nears, hundreds of pro-life students from across the state are rallying to defeat the Issue 1 referendum, which would…
Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Guerrero State, Mexico, on Oct. 28, 2023. / Credit: RODRIGO OROPEZA/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, including a cloth mantle, was left intact amid the devastation caused by…
More than 40,000 young people turned out for a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of Río Blanco and Paypaya in the northern province of Jujuy in Argentina on Oct. 27, 2023. / Credit: Bishopric of Jujuy ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). During the month of October under the…
Options Students Mia Butler and Veronica Caravan with their peer mentors at an end-of-year celebration. / Credit: Irene Zaso CNA Staff, Nov 4, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). A program found in all four high schools in the Diocese of Arlington is making an impact on students with disabilities. The Options Program is a special…
Anya Safaryan (right), 78, who fled from Azerbaijan’s controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, sits on a bed at a sports complex set up as a temporary shelter in the Armenian city of Artashat on Oct. 8, 2023. / Credit: Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 4, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). The little-known…
