- The ‘Four Chaplains,’ selfless heroes of WWII, honored on 80th anniversary of their deaths
The Four Chaplains — Father John P. Washington, a Catholic priest (pictured above); Rev. George L. Fox, a Methodist minister; Rabbi Alexander D. Goode; and Rev. Clark V. Poling, a Reformed Church in America minister — gave their life jackets to save others when their ship was torpedoed in the frigid North Atlantic in 1943. / Archdiocese of Newark/Sean Quinn St. Louis, Mo., Feb 6, 2023 / […]
- Police say church vandal was about to break into tabernacle — until he saw the statue of Mary
Jerrid Farnam, 32, has been charged with several felonies in connection with a violent vandalism at Subiaco Abbey in Subiaco, Arkansas, on Jan. 5, 2023. He said he was about to begin breaking open the tabernacle where the consecrated bread is kept, but something stopped him in his tracks: a statue of the Virgin Mary. / Credit: Logan County Sheriff's Office / Suzanne Stratford YouTube screen shot […]
- AP tells reporters to call crisis pregnancy centers ‘anti-abortion centers’
null / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2023 / 13:21 pm (CNA). The Associated Press (AP) issued new guidelines advising reporters not to use the terms “crisis pregnancy center” or “pregnancy resource center” but to instead refer to centers that offer pro-life counseling and support as “anti-abortion centers.”Reporters should “avoid potentially misleading terms such as pregnancy […]
- Dictatorship in Nicaragua sentences priest critical of the regime to 10 years in prison
Father Oscar Benavidez. / Credit: Parish of the Holy Spirit of Mulukukú, Nicaragua CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The dictatorship in Nicaragua, led by President Daniel Ortega, sentenced Father Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila to 10 years in prison for the alleged crimes of “conspiracy” and “spreading fake news” to the detriment of the regime.The news site Despacho 505 […]
- 3 dead, 20 injured after bus traveling to Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico overturns
null / Credit: pixelaway/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Three pilgrims died and another 20 — including at least two minors — were injured Sunday in a traffic accident on the Mexico-Puebla highway as they were traveling to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.The pilgrims began their journey from the town of Ajalpan in the Mexican state of Puebla when […]
- Church in Costa Rica to compensate four victims of ex-priest serving 20-year sentence
null / sergign/shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). The Costa Rican Bishops’ Conference and the Archdiocese of San José announced that an agreement has been reached to compensate four victims of sexual abuse by ex-priest Mauricio Víquez Lizano, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.The bishops said in a Feb. 1 statement that in order to close the legal proceedings for […]
- European court: Russia violated human rights by not legally recognizing gay unions
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Germany / CherryX|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2023 / 09:55 am (CNA). The European Court of Human Rights ruled Jan. 17 that Russia violated the human rights of three homosexual couples because the government did not have any formal legal recognition of those unions under Russian law.Two female homosexual couples and one male […]
- ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Bishop Audo: after 12 years of war, the earthquake falls on us like a new bomb
Aleppo - "Now it is even more important to be close to the people, who are terrorized by this earthquake". For Jesuit Antoine Audo, Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, "among the many we have had, this is a disaster that, so to speak, we are not used to. After 12 years of war, this is a new tremendous bomb, lethal and unknown, which falls on us."The earthquake that shook southern Turkey and north-central […]
- Pope Francis, Syriac Patriarch call for prayers after devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
A woman reacts as rescuers search for survivors through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey, on Feb. 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast. The combined death toll for Turkey and Syria after the region’s strongest quake in nearly a century is in the thousands. / Photo by CAN EROK/AFP via Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 09:23 am […]
- AFRICA/DR CONGO - New demonstrations in Goma as M23 rebels advance
Kinshasa - Also today, February 6th, protests broke out again in Goma, capital of North Kivu , Barricades in the streets, where demonstrations that began on February 3 continue to ask the Regional Force of the Community of West African Member States to take action to stop the advance of the M23 rebels.The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , meanwhile, mourns the death of a South […]
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