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Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana at a press conference on the Synod on the Family, Oct. 23, 2015.

Cardinal Turkson: Put your faith before your nationality

Jun 2, 2017

By Adelaide Mena

Vatican experts on human development and social issues challenged Catholics around the world this week to respond with openness and... Read more

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, speaks at the Rimini meeting, Aug. 25, 2014.

Terror recruitment linked to Europe failing its young people

Sep 2, 2014

As reports continue to emerge on Muslims born and raised in Europe being recruited by the Islamic State, the continent... Read more

These two displaced people who fled the Islamic State to Ankawa, in Erbil, are among the more than 1.2 million displaced persons in Iraq.

Vatican official calls for military protection of Iraqi Christians

Aug 13, 2014

The Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations on Saturday urged the international community to provide humanitarian assistance and... Read more

The United Nations flag flying outside its headquarters.

UN may risk a 'deficit of democracy', nuncio says

Jun 3, 2014

The Holy See’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva has no doubt that the body is useful in the... Read more

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From left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for protests at abortion clinics — but President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he will likely grant them presidential pardons.

Meet the pro-life prisoners whom Trump is expected to pardon

St. John’s Cathedral in the Netherlands is lit up for Red Wednesday on Nov. 23, 2022.

Churches around the world lit up red in honor of persecuted Christians

Despite an online petition posted to change.org in mid-October that garnered over 53,000 signatures in protest of the evergreen to be used for the Vatican Christmas tree being chopped down, the tree arrived as scheduled in St. Peter’s Square at 7 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2024.

Vatican Christmas tree wreathed in controversy over environmental objections

Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Freiburg, Germany.

Church beatifies German priest who was executed by Nazis in 1944

Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022.

Pope Francis assigns U.S. cardinal to carry out ‘urgent’ overhaul of Vatican pension fund

“In Jesus there is no contradiction between truth and charity,” notes professor Marta Rodríguez Díaz, who teaches in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

Gender: The problem isn’t the term but the anthropology behind it, Catholic expert says

“We think of these stories of saints that have withstood all this persecution as belonging to the Middle Ages,” said Bill McGurn, godfather of Jimmy Lai. “It’s going on right now, and we can see it.”

Jimmy Lai’s godfather assesses trial: ‘He’s a real champion of freedom’

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Wyoming governor pledges to appeal after judge blocks state pro-life laws

Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598.

What do we know about the presentation of Mary?

Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya.

Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish

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