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A Catholic pregnancy center called Aid for Women in north Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood was vandalized with red paint and the words "fake clinic" and "the dead babies are in Gaza" at 3 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, just hours after the closing of the Democratic National Convention. Mary FioRito, a spokesperson for the center, said that vandals also cemented the doors shut, forcing the nonprofit to cancel appointments for around 12 women.

Chicago pregnancy center vandalized as Democratic National Convention closes

Aug 23, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

Security cameras allegedly captured four vandals in the act of splattering red paint on the pregnancy center’s entrance and painting... Read more

“This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard logic” said former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upon making the announcement.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends campaign, urges voters to elect Donald Trump

Aug 23, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Kennedy said the Democratic Party has “departed so dramatically on the core values that I grew up with.” Read more

Couple in Germany.

Can I get a vasectomy? Here’s what the Catholic Church teaches

Aug 23, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Each year an estimated 500,000 men in the U.S. choose vasectomies. Most who do so are middle-aged and married —... Read more

A pro-life sign is seen on a roadside in Agnew, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024.

Nebraska voters will consider dueling pro-life and pro-abortion amendments in November

Aug 23, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

One proposal would constitutionally enshrine the state’s current pro-life protections, and the other would enshrine a constitutional “right” to abortion. Read more

Pope Francis meets with Beniamino Zuncheddu at the Vatican on Aug. 23, 2024. Zuncheddu, who was wrongly imprisoned for 33 years after being falsely accused of the triple homicide of three shepherds in 1991, had his conviction overturned and was released from prison.

Pope Francis meets wrongly-imprisoned Italian man freed after 33 years behind bars

Aug 23, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

Beniamino Zuncheddu, now in his 60s, was released from prison in January after his murder conviction was overturned. Read more

Matagalpa, Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan dictatorship eliminates tax exemptions for Catholic and evangelical churches

Aug 23, 2024

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina considers the measure a “fiscal blow” that will end up “financially suffocating the Church.” Read more

The third National Eucharistic Congress in Madagascar is underway Aug. 23-26. Pope Francis sent a message, saying that "each person should be a missionary of God’s love to others."

Pope to Madagascar Eucharistic Congress pilgrims: Be missionaries of God’s love to others

Aug 23, 2024

By Kristina Millare

In a message for pilgrims at the third National Eucharistic Congress in Madagascar, Pope Francis says each person should be... Read more

Planned Parenthood mobile van parked outside the Democratic National Convention offering free abortions and vasectomies.

Planned Parenthood accused of violating tax-exempt status with abortion van at DNC

Aug 23, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The abortion giant offered free abortions and vasectomies to residents and visitors in Chicago as the 2024 Democratic National Convention... Read more

A Border Patrol agent processes a group of unaccompanied Central American minors who crossed the Rio Grande River on May 26, 2021.

Tens of thousands of migrant youth unaccounted for; U.S. government fears many being trafficked

Aug 23, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

An audit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed that there are tens of thousands of migrant children... Read more

The Vatican has accepted the decree of an archbishop approving the spiritual activities of the Catholic Shrine of Chandavila in the town of La Codosera in Badajoz, Spain, where Our Lady of Sorrows is alleged to have appeared to two young girls at the end of World War II.

Vatican approves devotion to 1945 apparition of Our Lady of Sorrows in Spain 

Aug 23, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

An Aug. 22 letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith called Our Lady of Sorrows of Chandavila... Read more

“This is about enshrining second- and third trimester-abortion and forcing taxpayers to fund abortion,” said Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, during an Aug. 22, 2024, interview on "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly."

With abortion on the ballot in 9 states, pro-life supporters ‘need to be engaged,’ leader says

Aug 23, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Abortion is currently on the ballot in Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota, Missouri, New York, Maryland, Florida, and potentially... Read more

Masonic temple in North Hollywood, California.

Freemasonry: why the Church prohibits membership

Aug 23, 2024

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Catholics are strictly prohibited from being Masons or belonging to Freemasonry. Below are seven facts to know in order to... Read more

Catholics from Papua New Guinea during the General Assembly that was held in Mingende, Kundiawa Diocese, in 2022.

Pope Francis to find a lively and simple faith in Papua New Guinea

Aug 23, 2024

By Andrés Henríquez

Pope Francis will visit Papua New Guinea as part of an apostolic journey that will take place Sept. 2–13 in... Read more

Cardinal Peter Turkson delivers the inaugural lecture at the opening of the 2024/2025 academic year of the Nairobi-based Hekima University College (HUC) on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

Cardinal Turkson explores evolution of power in Church, society in Kenya college lecture

Aug 23, 2024

By Jude Atemanke, João Vissesse

Ghanaian-born Cardinal Peter Turkson gave a lecture to open the new school year at the Nairobi, Kenya-based Hekima University College. Read more

A member of the Dominican Sisters’ Congregation of St. Rose of Lima in northern Italy sells prints at the Santa’s Sanctuary of Lima.

The congregation in honor of St. Rose of Lima where all the sisters are named Rose

Aug 23, 2024

By Abel Camasca

St. Rose was a Dominican tertiary. The Catholic Church celebrates her feast day on Aug. 23, though it was formerly... Read more

U.N. Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Aug. 22 marks International Day of Victims of Religious Persecution

Aug 22, 2024

By ACI Prensa

Every Aug. 22 the International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is commemorated. Read more

The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, lies in the basement of the church of the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus outside Gower, Missouri, on May 28, 2023.

Results of medical exam build case for ‘incorrupt’ body of Sister Wilhelmina, bishop says

Aug 22, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Bishop James Johnston last year commissioned a team of medical experts to examine the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB. Read more

Sviatoslav Shevchuk is major archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Catholic archbishop defends Ukrainian ban on Russian Orthodox Church activities

Aug 22, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said Russia has used the Russian Orthodox Church “as a tool of... Read more

Former President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards speaks on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21, 2024, at the United Center in Chicago.

Head of Planned Parenthood, abortion advocates speak at Democratic National Convention

Aug 22, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

The 2024 Democratic National Convention highlighted the issue of abortion with several pro-abortion advocates speaking at the Aug. 19–22 event... Read more

India's supreme court building is pictured in New Delhi on July 9, 2018.

Church hails India Supreme Court for reaffirming ban on euthanasia: ‘Extremely happy’

Aug 22, 2024

By Anto Akkara

“We are extremely happy that the sacredness of life has been upheld by the court,” Archbishop Raphy Manjaly of Agra,... Read more