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Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina on May 3 presented the third installment of her report "Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?"The document gives an account of the at least 529 attacks perpetrated by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in the last five years with 90 committed so far in 2023.In her Zoom presentation made from exile, the researcher exposed the "hostilities, persecution, sieges, desecration, destruction, robbery, expulsions, and confiscations" perpetrated by the dictatorship.Molina also...

Elisabeth Ohlsen. / Credit: E. OhlsonWashington D.C., May 4, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).An art exhibit at the European Union's Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, has prompted criticism from conservative politicians in Italy for its display of a blasphemous depiction of Jesus Christ and the apostles.The artwork, a series of photographs by lesbian Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson, includes one of a man who is meant to represent Christ wearing a white robe and a halo made out of stars above his head. The man is surrounded by seven men who are wearing leather-based fetish clothing associate...

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.CNA Staff, May 4, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its "After School Satan Club" in a public middle school in Pennsylvania's Saucon Valley School District.U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher, sitting in Allentown, issued the preliminary injunction just days after The Satanic Temple held its second annual conference called "SatanCon" in Boston, which was heavily protested by Catholics.The Satanic Temple, which, according to its website, denies t...

Jimmy Lai at a Hong Kong protest / Courtesy of the Acton InstituteWashington D.C., May 5, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).A new film about Hong Kong media mogul turned pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has amassed more than 1 million views on YouTube and over 4 million views on TikTok in just two weeks.Interweaving historic footage, video of mass protests and arrests, and interviews with Lai and those who know him well, "The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai's Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom" is a 73-minute documentary available for free on YouTube produced by the Acton Institute, a think tank based in...

Pope Francis meets with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in an audience May 5, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 5, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited the Vatican's child protection commission to have "a spirituality of reparation" toward victims of clergy sexual abuse and to examine where the Church has committed "sins of omission" in this area."The sexual abuse of minors by clergy and its poor handling by Church leaders has been one of the greatest challenges for the Church in our time," he told the Pontifical Commissi...