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Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Portoviejo, Eduardo José Castillo Pino, asked the faithful to pray for the end of violence in Ecuador and expressed his solidarity with the victims and injured left by a shooting that occurred Thursday morning at a funeral home in Manta, a port city on the central coast."Once more, crime and terror again destroy the lives of so many people, and fill us all with fear and insecurity," the prelate said in a May 18 statement to ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner."For the victim...

Our Lady of All the Angels church, built by the Society of St. Pius X, in the Archdiocese of Puebla, Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).With the construction of a new church called "Our Lady of All the Angels," the Archdiocese of Puebla in Mexico warned the faithful about the Lefebvrist "schismatic movement" of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, stressing that the sacraments their priests administer "are illicit."In a statement released May 12, the archdiocese stated that the church, located near the San Pedro Cholul...

The Vatican has withdrawn a commemorative stamp for the 2023 World Youth Day. / Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City StateDenver Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).A Vatican-produced postage stamp to commemorate the upcoming World Youth Day 2023 in Portugal has been withdrawn after criticism over its use of a mid-20th-century monument that is controversial in some Portuguese circles.The stamp, created by the Vatican Philatelic Service and issued on May 16, shows Pope Francis leading a group of children up the Monument to Discoveries. The Lisbon monument was built in 1960 f...

Bishop Michael Olson. / Diocese of Ft. WorthWashington D.C., May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).Nuns from an Arlington, Texas, Carmelite monastery are suing the Diocese of Fort Worth and the bishop for $1 million for alleged violations of privacy and harming the physical and emotional well-being of the sisters. The lawsuit stems from interactions related to a diocesan investigation of the Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach. The diocese has said it was investigating "grave misconduct" based on a report that she "committed sins against the Sixth Commandment and violated her...

Null / KREML, ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Four Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Japan called for G7 leaders to take action against nuclear weapons amid a "more dangerous" arms race and an escalated threat of nuclear war."We strongly urge world leaders at the G7 Summit to show by example how international leadership is ready, willing, and able to work with nuclear weapons and nonnuclear weapons states to ensure no country or city ever suffers the horrors of nuclear war again," said the four bishops in a May 15 letter to G7 leaders.Signing t...