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Nicaraguan academic and political activist Felix Maradiaga speaks during an interview with AFP in Managua on Feb. 11, 2021. / Credit: STR/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, Jun 13, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).A Nicaraguan court on June 9 announced the "freezing and forfeiture" of all real estate and of all shares of commercial companies belonging to the 222 political prisoners who were deported to the U.S. in February.The ruling by Criminal Chamber 1 of the Court of Appeals based in Manag...

Pro Vita & Famiglia (Pro Life & Family) headquarters in Rome was vandalized June 10, 2023. / Credit: Pro Vita & FamigliaACI Prensa Staff, Jun 13, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).The Italian association Pro Vita & Famiglia (Pro Life and Family) denounced an attack on its office in Rome after being called "bastards" by the leader of the LGBT Pride demonstration in Italy, Mario Colamarino.On Saturday, June 10, the demonstration in Rome passed in front of the associations office, whe...

Archbishop-elect José Cobo of Madrid, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of MadridACI Prensa Staff, Jun 12, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).After his appointment as archbishop of Madrid became official, José Cobo said he sees a need to "reposition the Church" in a changing society.Cobos appointment as the new archbishop to replace retired Cardinal Carlos Osoro was made official June 12. He has been serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Madrid since 2018.Asked at a press conference wha...

Null / Credit: UnsplashACI Prensa Staff, Jun 12, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Madrid held an event on Saturday featuring testimonies "of Christian fathers and mothers with LGTBI children organized by CRISMHOM [Homosexual Christian Men and Women of Madrid] families." The announcement of the second edition of the event, on the archdioceses website and on social media, sparked controversy on Twitter.The June 10 event at St. Francis of Assisi Parish was announced with the rainb...

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Null / ivanko80/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jun 9, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).The Maryland Board of Public Works approved nearly $1.3 million in emergency spending to pay for a stockpile of two abortion drugs in response to a lawsuit that could take one of the drugs off the market.Most of the spending will support two contracts to purchase 30,000 doses of mifepristone, which can kill an unborn child up to 10 weeks gestation. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine challenged the Food and Drug Administrati...

A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, 2023. / Credit: Joe Portolano/CNABoston, Mass., Jun 9, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).Eucharist processions are being planned across the country this weekend in celebration of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, a more than 700-year-old feast day that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.The processions occur a...

Sacred images that were damaged by bullets in the church in Santa Anita were placed at the foot of the altar of the cathedral in Guachochi. / Guachochi Cathedral FacebookACI Prensa Staff, Jun 9, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).The pastor of a church riddled with bullets in an armed confrontation between crime gangs in the border state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico called on the criminals involved to listen to "the voice of God" and to "turn their weapons into plows to till the earth, into...

Paris, France / Pedro Lastra / Unsplash (CC0)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 9, 2023 / 15:10 pm (CNA).A 24-year-old Catholic Frenchman named Henri went viral Thursday as the "backpack hero" after he stopped a potentially deadly knife attack at a playground in southeastern France by chasing away the attacker with a backpack.French newspaper 20 Minutes reported on Henris heroic response to the shocking attack.The perpetrator, only partially identified by French authorities as Abdalmasih H...

Cross in the square of the church of San Martín, in Callosa de Segura, Spain. / Credit: Citizen Platform in Defense of the CrossACI Prensa Staff, Jun 9, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA).The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has announced it has hired a law firm and a specialized association to clarify the alleged cases of abuse that occurred in its schools in Catalonia, Spain, and to accompany the complainants.The Jesuit delegate in Catalonia, Enric Puiggròs, has announced that the congregation has taken action...