Special Olympics World Winter Games kicks off in Turin, Italy, with 1,500 athletes
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 16:15 pm More than 1,500 athletes from 100 global delegations are competing in Turin, Italy, in the Special Olympics World…
Bishops call for ‘vital’ donations to Catholic Relief Services after federal aid freeze
By Tessa Gervasini Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 11, 2025 / 15:15 pm The U.S. bishops are highlighting what they describe as the “very urgent significance” of this year’s annual Catholic…
UK pro-life leaders warn of ‘disaster’ in outsourcing assisted dying to private sector
By Madeleine Teahan London, England, Mar 11, 2025 / 14:45 pm Leading pro-life campaigners in England and Wales have expressed alarm following reports that Westminster’s proposed “assisted dying” process might…
2 more Catholic Charities agencies announce layoffs due to funding freeze
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 14:15 pm Two more Catholic Charities agencies have announced layoffs in the wake of the Trump administration’s 90-day federal funding freeze.…
Pope Francis, Argentine bishops express solidarity with flood victims
By Julieta Villar ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 13:45 pm Pope Francis and the Catholic Church in Argentina expressed their solidarity with flood victims in the city of…
Syrian patriarchs condemn massacres as sectarian violence escalates on Syria’s coast
By Souhail Lawand ACI MENA, Mar 11, 2025 / 11:30 am The Syrian coast in the western part of the country has become a theater for unprecedented unrest since the…
Prison is where ‘I learned to be a priest,’ chaplain says after 23 years of service
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 07:00 am Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison…
PHOTOS: Remembering moments of grace and mercy when the COVID pandemic shut the world down
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 06:00 am Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 pandemic. Days later,…
Supreme Court will hear case challenging Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for minors
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 18:15 pm The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that challenges Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”…
Indian state could introduce the death penalty for religious conversions
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:45 pm Leaders in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, home to 72 million people, are considering punishing with the…
Pope Francis urges world not to forget countries in need of God’s ‘gift of peace’
By Kristina Millare Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:15 pm Since being admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14, Pope Francis has dedicated time to work and pray…
‘Support to the end’: Religious sister brings palliative care to unborn babies in Ukraine
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 16:30 pm Since 2020, a pandemic and then an active war have caused untold tragedy for Ukrainians, but these circumstances have…