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Pope Francis attended a Vatican screening of the 2022 documentary "Freedom on Fire: Ukraines Fight for Freedom" on Feb. 24, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Feb 25, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis said a spontaneous prayer for peace during a Vatican event for the first anniversary of Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Friday.After saying a few words about the war in Ukraine, the pope invited those present to pray with him."Holy Father, who art in heaven, look at our mi...

Pope Francis spoke at the opening of the 94th judicial year of the Vatican City State tribunal on Feb. 25, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Feb 25, 2023 / 06:21 am (CNA).Pope Francis said Saturday that Vatican trials for cases of grave financial mismanagement have become unavoidable in recent years."The problem is not the trials, but the facts and conduct that determine them and make them painfully necessary," the pope told a group of Vatican magistrates on Feb. 25."In fact,&quo...

View of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin located inside the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison. / EQRoy/ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Feb 23, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).Voters in Wisconsin are one step closer to choosing a new state Supreme Court justice after a Feb. 21 statewide primary whittled the field down to two candidates who will face off again in April with a 10-year term on the states high court on the line.The Wisconsin judicial race, which might have remained obscure in other years e...

Supporters hold a placard with pictures of the candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi and running mate Datti Baba-Ahmed during a campaign rally of the party in Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 11, 2023. / Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 23, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA).By all accounts, the stakes are high for Nigerias presidential elections on Feb. 25.A sectarian insurgency and murderous banditry in the biggest country in Africa could worsen if the new president is unable t...

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón at a press conference Wednesday / CBS News/YouTubeBoston, Mass., Feb 23, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA).Carlos Medina, the husband of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David OConnells housekeeper, has admitted to murdering the bishop, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said in a press conference Wednesday."He admitted that he had done the killing and we believe we recovered the weapon that they were using, and we have other evidence from the bed, cer...

Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience on Ash Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Feb 24, 2023 / 08:45 am (CNA).In an apostolic letter on Thursday, Pope Francis reaffirmed that the property and assets of the Holy See are "ecclesiastical public goods," not private property."The universal destination of the Holy Sees assets gives them an ecclesiastical public nature," the pope wrote in the Feb. 23 motu proprio."The entities of the Hol...

Congresswoman América Rangel of Mexico City. / Credit: Official América Rangel websiteACI Prensa Staff, Feb 24, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).A group of LGBT demonstrators attacked the Mexico City Congress Feb. 22, damaging doors and windows. Some in the group also tried to attack Congresswoman América Rangel.The group forcibly entered the premises to protest a bill that would prohibit hormonal and surgical sex change treatments for children introduced two weeks ago by Rangel, a member of the opposit...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, on Dec. 9, 2022 / Oleksandr Sawranskij / Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchRome Newsroom, Feb 24, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).What does it mean to be a Christian in times of war? This is the existential question to which Christians in Ukraine seek an answer while they grapple with the devastating consequences of Russias now year-old invasion.In the view of Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop Sv...

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell / Credit: MajorChange/YouTube Jul 26, 2020Boston, Mass., Feb 22, 2023 / 16:40 pm (CNA).Carlos Medina, the suspect in the murder of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David OConnell, was arraigned in state court Wednesday and formally charged with one count of murder and a special allegation that he personally used a firearm."This was a brutal act of violence against a person who dedicated his life to making our neighborhoods safer, healthier, and ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby addresses General Synod delegates during the debate on gay marriage at The Church House on Feb. 8, 2023, in London. / Photo by Leon Neal/Getty ImagesSt. Louis, Mo., Feb 23, 2023 / 10:12 am (CNA).A group of religious leaders representing a significant portion of the worlds Anglicans voted this week to reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby after the Church of Englands governing body in early February voted to bless same-sex couples.The...