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People stand past the debris of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 28, 2025, after a powerful earthquake killed more than 150 people across Myanmar and Thailand on March 28, toppling buildings and bridges and trapping over 80 workers in an under-construction skyscraper in Bangkok. / Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom,…

Maryland State House. / Credit: Jon Bilous/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 28, 2025 / 14:25 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church in Maryland is urging the state Legislature to treat cases of child sexual abuse in state-run facilities equal to those in private institutions following a proposed bill that would “decrease the number of civil causes…

The Philippines has the highest adult Christian faith retention rate in the world, according to Pew Research. / Credit: icosha/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 28, 2025 / 12:45 pm (CNA). Surveys in about three dozen countries compiled by the Pew Research Center found that most Christians who are raised in the faith hold onto it…

Cardinal George Pell. / Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney this week credited the apparently miraculous survival of an Arizona toddler to the intercession of Cardinal George Pell. According to the newspaper The Australian, Fisher said at a book event on March 26 that…

Father Augustine Deji Dada, a Missionary of Mercy priest, is seen at the Vatican in Rome, Thursday, March 27, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 28, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Around 500 priests instituted as Missionaries of Mercy are in Rome March 28–30 to take part in events for a special jubilee…

The flag of the European Union flying in Rome. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). The bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) held their spring assembly this week in Italy, a meeting in which they considered the European Union’s vocation…

null / Credit: sebra/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 28, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). A Texas Catholic charity group that sued the federal government this month over budget cuts says it will drop its lawsuit as payments from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) resume.  Catholic Charities Fort Worth sued the agency at…