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Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian population in the Middle East, noting that the Christian presence in the region exerts…

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (pictured) and Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of the Archdiocese of Tehran–Isfahan in Iran asked for prayers on June 16, 2025, as the conflict between Iran and Israel escalated. / Credit: Courtesy of Custos of the Holy Land Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:40 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders…

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 16:31 pm (CNA). Cardinal Raymond Burke said he has asked Pope Leo XIV to remove measures restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in…

Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA). Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue state and killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations…