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Null / Africa Studio / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Feb 9, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA).The Church of Englands governing body has voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman in a move that could nonetheless have global consequences for Christian unity."For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly, and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church," Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbi...

Null / Credit: Dzelat/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Feb 9, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).The FBI says it is retracting a leaked document published on the internet Feb. 8 that appears to reveal that the bureaus Richmond division launched an investigation into "radical traditionalist" Catholics and their possible ties to "the far-right white nationalist movement." In response to an inquiry from CNA, the FBI said it will remove the document because "it does not meet our exactin...

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government. / Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 9, 2023 / 14:24 pm (CNA).The dictatorship of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega deported 222 political prisoners to Washington, D.C., Thursday, including recently jailed priests and seminarians. A Nicaraguan appeals court claim...

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Greek Catholic priest Father Fadi Najjar, who serves in Aleppo, Syria, appealed for prayers as his community faced the death and devastation after an earthquake struck Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023. / Credit: AVANACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).Greek Catholic priest Father Fadi Najjar, who serves in Aleppo, Syria, related how he and his community have faced the death and devastation caused by the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6.The priest explained that since...

Four cardinals, 45 bishops, and 80 priests concelebrated Mass Feb. 8, 2023, under the high vaulted ceiling of Pragues St. Vitus Cathedral with about 500 people in attendance. The Mass marked the midway point of the European Continental Assembly meeting in Prague Feb. 5-12, 2023. / Credit: Lucie Horníková, Clovek a VíraPrague, Czech Republic, Feb 9, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).The chief organizer of the Catholic Churchs Synod on Synodality said Wednesday night that the global synod process is meant ...

Null / Africa Studio / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Feb 9, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA).The Church of Englands governing body has voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman in a move that could nonetheless have global consequences for Christian unity."For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly, and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church," Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbi...

Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (right) waits prior to the start of a consistory during which 20 new cardinals are to be created by the Pope, on Aug. 27, 2022 at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. ( / Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, Feb 9, 2023 / 08:48 am (CNA).Pope Francis met at the Vatican Thursday morning with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who is on trial for charges related to Vatican finances.The meeting appeared on the top of Pope Francis list of offic...

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. / zdk.de.Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 8, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA).A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europes synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church.Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), addressed delegates in the meeting in Prague on Feb. 8."The stubborn adherence to the dual anth...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, on Dec. 9, 2022 / Oleksandr Sawranskij / Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchWashington D.C., Feb 8, 2023 / 10:55 am (CNA).The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) announced Monday that it is switching its fixed-date religious celebrations to match the Gregorian calendar used by the Church in the West. Ukrainian Catholics have been among the few remaining sects under the papacy to celebra...