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Null / liseykina / Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Apr 14, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).Floridas Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that would prohibit abortions after six weeks gestation, but the legislation will not go into effect until the Florida Supreme Court settles a lawsuit related to the states current 15-week gestation limit.The bill, known as the Heartbeat Protection Act, passed the Senate 26-13 and the House 70-40. It received support from most of the Legislatures Republicans with only a fe...

Breaking News / CNAWashington D.C., Apr 14, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).The Supreme Court on Friday placed a five-day suspension on all abortion pill restrictions ordered by lower courts while it considers Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, a high-stakes case impacting abortion pill access across the country.A ruling issued by Justice Samuel Alito grants the Biden Department of Justices emergency request to block recent judicial rulings while the nations highest court c...

Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington. / Kate Veik/CNADenver, Colo., Apr 14, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA).The U.S. Catholic bishops have praised a federal courts action to restore limits on the use of the abortion drug mifepristone and urged an end to the distribution of the life-ending drug, just hours before the Supreme Court announced a temporary stay on the decision."The 5th Circuit was right to recognize the dangers of unrestricted chemical abortion to womens health and safety. We are grateful...

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega on April 13, 2023, expelled from Nicaragua three nuns who were running a home for the elderly. / Credit: Diocese of Tilarán-LiberiaACI Prensa Staff, Apr 14, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).In a new attack against the Catholic Church, the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega expelled from Nicaragua three nuns who were running a home for the elderly.According to Nicaraguan media 100% Noticias, the dictatorial regime expelled Costa Rican siblings Sister Isabel ...

Original painting of the Divine Mercy, by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski in 1934. Wikimedia Commons 4.0. / nullBoston, Mass., Apr 15, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).What do a certain Polish nun and a certain Polish pope have in common? They both became saints and they were both instrumental in the institution of Divine Mercy Sunday, which offers many graces to the faithful. Be sure to thank St. John Paul II and St. Maria Faustina Kowalska this April 16 because as Divine Mercy Sunday rolls around again this ...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2023 / 06:50 am (CNA).Pope Francis said Friday that he plans to visit Mongolia, the worlds most sparsely populated sovereign country.In off-the-cuff remarks to employees of the Italian airline company that staffs the papal plane for his international trips, the pope said that he will travel to Mongolia after his scheduled trips to Hungary and Fran...

The Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua announced Feb. 27, 2023, that they are leaving Nicaragua for Panama. / Credit: Facebook Trappist Sisters of NicaraguaACI Prensa Staff, Apr 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has confiscated a cloistered monastery and arrested 20 people for activities related to Holy Week in Nicaragua.The Trappist sisters of Nicaragua, who left the country in February after 22 years of service, repor...

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel on the New England Campus of Thomas Aquinas College sustained an April 9, 2023, fire causing thousands of dollars in damages. / Courtesy of Thomas Aquinas CollegeBoston, Mass., Apr 13, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).As Father Greg Markey, head chaplain at Thomas Aquinas Colleges New England campus, opened the door to the sacristy preparing for an early morning hour of eucharistic adoration on Easter Sunday, he was hit by a wall of black smoke. "And immediatel...

Christ of Peace statue in Mexico. / Credit: Christ of Peace PatronageACI Prensa Staff, Apr 13, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).On Resurrection Sunday, April 9, the Christ of Peace statue was dedicated in Tabasco county in Zacatecas state, Mexico. The monumental sculpture which sits atop a pedestal measures 108 feet high, which makes it the largest of its kind in the country.The statue stands in the center of the esplanade atop "Faith and Religion Hill."Present at the dedication were the governor...

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