A man checks a destroyed building on Jan. 8, 2024, after an Israeli air raid in the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. / Credit: HASSAN FNEICH/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 10, 2024 / 14:22 pm (CNA). The…

The private garden of the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem seen from above. The property is close to the Cows’ Garden and it is one of those threatened by the lease deal between the Armenian Patriarchate and the real estate company Xana Gardens. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Jan 10, 2024 / 12:45 pm (CNA). For…

University of Notre Dame. / Credit: Peter Zelasko/CNA CNA Staff, Jan 10, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). A judge has dismissed a professor’s defamation lawsuit against an independent student newspaper at the University of Notre Dame, ruling that the instructor’s claims of defamation against the newspaper related to its reporting on her abortion advocacy did…

The Vatican on Jan. 10, 2024, announced the confirmation of the election of a new head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic church in India, Bishop Raphael Thattil. / Credit: Jpullokaran, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis has confirmed a new head…

Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Facebook Diocese Media – TV Merced Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Throughout 2023, more than 130 Catholic priests and religious were either arrested, kidnapped, or murdered, according to a new report on Catholic persecution published by Aid to the Church in Need.  The report…

Sister María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, whose religious name was María Antonia of St. Joseph. / Credit: Public domain Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis next month will preside over the canonization Mass of the woman set to become Argentina’s first female saint, the Vatican said this week. The…