- Report reveals escalation of violence against Christians in the Holy Land
Christians processing through the Old City of Jerusalem. / Credit: Adi Marer/Rossing Center Vatican City, Apr 14, 2025 / 16:02 pm (CNA). The annual report by the Rossing Center, a Jerusalem-based organization dedicated to interfaith coexistence, documented 111 cases of harassment and violence against the Christian community in Israel and East Jerusalem in 2024.The report revealed a climate of […]
- Pittsburgh bishop prays for end to violence after governor’s mansion arson attack
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. / Credit: Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Apr 14, 2025 / 15:32 pm (CNA). A Catholic bishop in Pennsylvania expressed shock and offered prayers after a 38-year-old man was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to murder Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family by setting the governor’s residence […]
- Trump issues Holy Week messages: ‘He is risen!’
President Donald Trump speaks with White House groundskeepers on April 8, 2025. / Credit: The White House/Flickr Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 14, 2025 / 15:02 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump issued two messages on Palm Sunday recognizing the importance of the Holy Week leading up to Easter and renewed his calls to protect religious liberty in public policy.In a post on the social media […]
- AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed
São Paulo – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, in February 2001. Twenty-four years later, Pope Francis, during an audience with the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, recognized his […]
- Arkansas enacts religious freedom protections for adoptive parents, faith-based agencies
Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the annual CPAC D.C. conference at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. / Credit: DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 14, 2025 / 14:32 pm (CNA). Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed into law a bill to prevent adoptive agencies and foster […]
- In Holy Land on Palm Sunday, cardinal calls Christians to ‘hope against all hope’
“No one can separate us from our love for Jerusalem, just as no one can separate us from the love of Christ,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the custos of the Holy Land Rome Newsroom, Apr 14, 2025 / 11:49 am (CNA). On Palm Sunday, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of […]
- Pope Francis declares Sagrada Familia basilica architect Antoni Gaudí ‘venerable’
The Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Pope Francis on Monday, April 14, 2025, declared Gaudí “venerable,” bringing him one step closer to sainthood. / Credit: Public domain; r.nagy/Shutterstock Vatican City, Apr 14, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday declared Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí “venerable,” bringing the […]
- AFRICA/SOUTHAN - Assault on the Zamzam camp hosting more than 500,000 displaced people
Khartoum – “We have taken control of Zamzam to protect civilians and medical personnel and we are ready to receive convoys of humanitarian aid,” the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces said in a statement announcing that they had captured the Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur yesterday, 13 April.Zamzam, which according to the United Nations is home to more than 500,000 refugees, is one […]
- AFRICA/LIBERIA - Medical support for people with disabilities or in situations of extreme poverty
Foya - For some years now, the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land in Liberia, with the formation of a charitable group, has begun to support the medical expenses of those who are unable to do so, especially the disabled and people in extreme poverty. Fr. Lorenzo Snider, a priest of the Society of African Missions has been taking care of the community for the past few years […]
- ASIA/MYANMAR - Palm Sunday and Holy Week among the rubble: “Christ is among the displaced”
Mandalay - In Mandalay, Palm Sunday was celebrated among the rubble “as a sign of resilience and Christian joy in the midst of devastation and suffering,” says Fr. John Kyaw Thu Ya, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, a historic church in the municipality of Yamethin, in the diocese of Mandalay, completely destroyed by the earthquake of 28 March. The parish priest wanted to gather […]
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