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The Vulnerable People Project, a Catholic charity based in the United States, is helping 20 teenage Afghan girls build a new life after an ISIS terrorist attack on Sept. 30, 2022, left them seriously injured and in dire need of medical treatment. / Credit: Vulnerable People ProjectWashington D.C., Mar 28, 2023 / 09:08 am (CNA).The Vulnerable People Project (VPP), a Catholic charity based in the United States, is helping 20 teenage Afghan girls build a new life after an ISIS terrorist attack on S...

Null / ArtOlympic / Shutterstock.Boston, Mass., Mar 28, 2023 / 08:13 am (CNA).An arrest has been made in the March 16 act of vandalism committed at a pro-life pregnancy center in Amherst, New York, the same clinic that was seriously damaged in an arson attack in June 2022.Although perpetrators of last years act of vandalism at CompassCare Pregnancy Services still havent been brought to justice, 39-year-old Hannah Kamke has been arrested in connection with the recent crime. The word &qu...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0)ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who lives in exile in the United States, called the Daniel Ortega dictatorships staging this weekend of a prison interview with Bishop Rolando Álvarez "repugnant and cynical."Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years and four months in prison on Feb. 10 as a "traitor to the homeland.&quot...

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, speaking at a press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican News YouTube ChannelRome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg and a key leader of the Synod on Synodality, said the Catholic Churchs teaching on a male-only priesthood is not infallible and a future pope could allow women priests.The cardinal, 64, addressed the topic of the ordination of women, homosexuality, women in th...

Null / Credit: NaruFoto/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability to organize on campus and set their own standards for leaders if the Biden administrations proposed rule change is finalized, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.The existing rules are "commonsense protection for faith-based student organizations that have faced discrimination on man...

Null / Public DomainSt. Louis, Mo., Mar 28, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).A new poll of U.S. residents suggests that certain values such as religiosity and having children have receded in importance over the past 25 years, while peoples opinion of the importance of money increased during the same period. When asked about certain values and whether they consider them to be "very important," 39% said "religion" was very important to them. By contrast, in 1998, 62% of respondents t...

A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy posted signs as part of a billboard campaign in a neighborhood near the Vatican on March 28, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy has sponsored a billboard campaign in a neighborhood near the Vatican.The campaign includes about a dozen billboards in four different designs. They were put up March 28 and will stay in place for 15 days, according to i...

Colorado State Capitol. / f11photo / Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).The Colorado state Senate last week passed a three-bill "Safe Access to Protected Health Care" package that would radically expand abortion access in the state.The package now advances to the state House, which is likely to hold a vote on it this week. Given that Colorado has a Democratic majority in its House and a Democrat governor, the bills seem likely to become law.These measures would...

The Roman Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem. / Credit: Jacob Stein/Crux StationalisRome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 07:53 am (CNA).While many people choose to give up social media for Lent, one Catholic man is uploading new videos online every day to share the stories of the early Christian martyrs and Romes most ancient churches.Jacob Stein is visiting a church in Rome each day of Lent this year, retracing the pilgrimage routes Catholics have walked for centuries as part of the Roman station...

Breaking News / CNAWashington D.C., Mar 27, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Nashville police fatally shot a school shooter on Monday after the suspect killed three students and three adult staff members at Covenant School, a private Christian school for students in preschool through sixth grade. According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), the shooter was a 28-year-old woman. The police department has not yet released more information about the shooter or a possible motive. ...