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Null / basist / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Dec 22, 2022 / 10:45 am (CNA).Traditionally, Christmas in predominantly Orthodox Ukraine comes on Jan. 7. But some of Ukraines Orthodox Christians can now add Dec. 25 to the festivities and celebrate Jesus birth twice, Church leaders have said."We are giving people the option to celebrate on a different day," Archbishop Yevstratiy Zoria, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate, told Politico."We are not movi...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every Christian and every Christian community is called to conversion, a...

Pope Francis speaking to the Roman Curia at the Vatican, Dec. 22, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Dec 22, 2022 / 04:53 am (CNA).Pope Francis warned the Roman Curia on Thursday that they need to be vigilant in the face of temptation by "elegant demons"  and "the evil that quietly lurks among us."In his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 22, the pope said that there is a temptation for those who serve"at the heart of the C...

Fr. Frank Pavone. / American Life League via Flickr CC BY NC 2.0.Denver, Colo., Dec 22, 2022 / 06:43 am (CNA).On Nov. 9, Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung Sik, prefect for the Vaticans Dicastery for the Clergy, laicized Father Frank Pavone from the priesthood for "blasphemous communications on social media" and "persistent disobedience of lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop." But what does it mean to be "laicized," "defrocked," or "dismissed...

Bishop Emmanuel Lafont (center) addresses the crowd during a protest against same-sex marriage in Cayenne, French Guyana, on Jan. 12, 2013. / Photo credit JODY AMIET/AFP via Getty ImagesDenver, Colo., Dec 20, 2022 / 15:45 pm (CNA).Bishop Emeritus Emmanuel Lafont of Cayenne, French Guyana, has been found guilty of sexual abuse in a canonical court and banned from public ministry, while the countrys civil authorities are investigating charges against him."He is under house arrest, in a monast...

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A photo of Deborah Emmanuel on her Facebook page. Emmanuel, a Christian student in Nigeria, was killed by an Islamic mob on her college campus on May 12, 2022. / CNAWashington D.C., Dec 20, 2022 / 16:15 pm (CNA).Rhoda Jatau, a Christian and mother of five, was charged with blasphemy in a Nigerian court yesterday for forwarding a video defending a lynched Christian student. During her arraignment on Monday, Jatau was officially charged with blasphemy, inciting a mob, and exciting contempt of...

Null / Credit: UnsplashCNA Newsroom, Dec 20, 2022 / 16:45 pm (CNA).The bishop of Istmina-Tadó, Colombia, Mario Álvarez Gómez, called on the various armed groups in his country to observe a "unilateral cease-fire" to "celebrate Christmas in peace" and commit to the pacification of the country with concrete actions.The prelate referred to the National Liberation Army (ELN), "the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the Mexican Revolutionary Forces, and the RPS-Ca...

Salome (right) and the midwife "Emea" (left), bathing the infant Jesus, are common figures in Orthodox icons of the Nativity of Jesus; here in a 12th-century fresco from Cappadocia. / Public DomainWashington D.C., Dec 20, 2022 / 14:40 pm (CNA).A team of archaeologists has unearthed artifacts from an ancient Jewish burial cave associated with Salome, who according to some Christian traditions was a midwife at the Nativity of Jesus.The cave is the site of a centuries-old Christian pilgri...

Pope Francis looking at images from Ukraine at the general audience, Dec. 21, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2022 / 04:28 am (CNA).Pope Francis has urged Catholics not to forget the many children in Ukraine this Christmas who are suffering without electricity and heating amid the war.Speaking near a large nativity scene in Paul VI Hall on Dec. 21, the pope recalled an encounter that he had with Ukrainian war refugees in which the children seemed unable to smile."On this feast of...