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At Beirut 2024, patriarchs, bishops, and priests gathered for an ecumenical musical event the weekend of Jan. 20-21, 2024.

Ecumenical musical event in Beirut kicks off Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Jan 22, 2024

By ACI MENA

In the heart of Lebanon’s capital, Christian leaders gathered with a 400-person ecumenical choir to lift their voices in prayer. Read more

Margaret and Dominic Attah with Lord Alton and other parliamentarians on # RedWednesday 2023.

British Catholic politician demands justice for Christians killed in Nigeria at Christmas

Jan 22, 2024

By ACI Africa

Lord Alton of Liverpool called on the U.K. government to urgently address persecution in Nigeria, starting with last year’s Christmas... Read more

President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, announced new plans to increase access to surgical abortion, chemical abortion, and contraceptives, with the move coming on the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now-defunct Roe v. Wade ruling.

Biden announces new pro-abortion measures on Roe v. Wade anniversary 

Jan 22, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The White House’s push includes new guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support surgical abortion... Read more

Pope Francis receives an ecumenical delegation from Finland on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, on the second day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Finland: a laboratory of ecumenism and Christian unity 

Jan 22, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

Finland is a traditionally Lutheran country, but in many ways it retains unique links with the Catholic tradition that has... Read more

Thousands participate in the March For Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2024.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America lays out political strategy for 2024

Jan 22, 2024

By Joe Bukuras

The pro-life organization says its 2024 political plan will focus on the work of pro-life pregnancy centers and maternity homes. Read more

Pope Francis meets with the journalists who cover the Vatican in the Apostolic Palace on Jan. 22, 2024.

Pope Francis thanks Vatican journalists for reporting on scandals in the Church

Jan 22, 2024

By Courtney Mares

Journalists accredited to the Holy See Press Office met the pope in a private audience at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace... Read more

Protest Against Christian Persecution in China, Sept. 14, 2019, Cologne, Germany.

Believing in Jesus can cost you your life in these 50 countries 

Jan 22, 2024

By Andrés Henríquez

Open Doors just released its 2024 World Persecution List, which reflects a worsening situation for Christians worldwide. Read more

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks during the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Sept. 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, California.

Ron DeSantis suspends presidential campaign after second-place finish in Iowa

Jan 21, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The Florida governor had placed distantly behind former President Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses. Read more

Pope Francis presides over Mass for the Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 21, 2024.

Pope Francis calls for release of 6 religious sisters taken hostage in Haiti

Jan 21, 2024

By Courtney Mares

Armed gunmen took the religious sisters hostage in Port-au-Prince on Friday during a bus hijacking. Read more

Pope Francis presides over Mass for the Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 21, 2024.

Pope Francis: Return to God’s word rather than social media’s ‘violence of words’

Jan 21, 2024

By Courtney Mares

Speaking of the “immense power” that the word of God can unleash in people’s lives, Pope Francis encouraged us to... Read more

Thousands participate in Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in San Francisco.

PHOTOS: 2024 Walk for Life West Coast and OneLife LA: ‘Powerful Witness to Life’

Jan 21, 2024

By Jim Graves

Rain couldn’t dampen the hearts that champion the cause of the unborn in California on Saturday.  Read more

The apostolic nuncio to Jordan, Bishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, speaks during an interview with CNA at the headquarters of the apostolic nunciature in Amman on Jan. 11, 2024.

Nuncio highlights Jordan’s unique role in Holy Land Church today

Jan 21, 2024

By Marinella Bandini

Bishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, who became the first resident nuncio to Jordan one year ago, says the Church there... Read more

A lamb is wreathed in flowers during a special Mass for the feast of St. Agnes at the Basilica of St. Agnes Outside the Wall on Jan. 21, 2014.

The origins of St. Agnes, child saint and martyr

Jan 21, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Although not much is known about the life of St. Agnes, there are many stories passed down since her martyrdom... Read more

Bishop Mario Dorsonville was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana on Feb. 1, 2023. He passed away Jan. 19, 2024, due to “complications arising from recent health problems,” the diocese said. He was 63 years old.

Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana dies unexpectedly at 63 

Jan 20, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

Bishop Mario Dorsonville was bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux for less than a year, having been appointed as bishop... Read more

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio.

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in midst of major expansion

Jan 20, 2024

By Martin Barillas

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology founder Dr. Scott Hahn calls the new headquarters building in Steubenville, Ohio, “a dream... Read more

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Medical group works to combat ‘disastrous consequences of identity politics’ in medicine

Jan 20, 2024

By Daniel Payne

Do No Harm is a nonprofit advocacy group that combats what it calls the “disastrous consequences of identity politics” in... Read more

Dina Sophia Patryn, 22, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and Kaycie Hippolyte, 25, of Boston, took a nine-hour bus ride to the March for Life on Jan. 19, 2024.

Snapshots from the March for Life: Boston Archdiocese brings more than 500 to DC

Jan 20, 2024

By Joe Bukuras

The group marched under the Archdiocese of Boston’s large yellow and blue “Witness to Life” banner with their archbishop, Cardinal... Read more

Demonstrators participate in the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2024.

PHOTOS: Snow doesn’t deter thousands at second post-Roe March for Life

Jan 19, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Rows upon rows of participants young and old made their way around the National Mall to the Supreme Court on... Read more

Pro-life progressives rally for the unborn at the March for Life in front of the Supreme Court on Jan. 19, 2024.

Pro-life progressives make their voices heard at March for Life

Jan 19, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Members of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and other pro-life progressives gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on... Read more

Pope Francis blesses a mosaic of St. Charbel after his general audience Nov. 15, 2023, in St. Peter’s Square.

St. Charbel mosaic blessed by Pope Francis installed in Vatican grottoes

Jan 19, 2024

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

The mosaic was installed in the grottoes located beneath St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Read more