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JMJ Pregnancy Center in Orlando, Florida / Photo courtesy of Bob PerronBoston, Mass., May 16, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).The FBI and local police have opened an investigation after three mutilated animals were left on the property of a pro-life pregnancy center in Orlando, Florida, last week. On May 10, a staff member from the facility discovered the decapitated corpses of a "very large" chicken, baby lamb, and another "large bird" in front of the clinic, according to Bob Perron, executive director of the Catholic-based JMJ Pregnancy Center.When the staff member informed hi...

Caritas Internationalis elected Alistair Dutton as its new secretary general on May 15, 2023, in Rome. He has been the chief executive of Caritas Scotland. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA).Six months after Pope Francis dismissed its top administrators, Caritas Internationalis' new leadership team elected Alistair Dutton, who also serves on the board of Stop Climate Chaos and Jesuit Refugee Services, as its new secretary general Monday night.Dutton is the chief executive of Caritas Scotland, which works to build "a green and just world" by putting faith ...

Null / Photo by Patrick Thomas / ShutterstockDenver Newsroom, May 15, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA).Leading Israeli rabbis and Catholic Church leaders have signed a joint declaration on the ethics of treating the terminally ill, and rejecting assisted suicide and euthanasia, while also advocating for improved palliative care."For both Jews and Christians, taking care of the terminally ill with belief, respect and love means truly to light the lamp of faith and hope at a time shrouded in darkness and a sense of solitude and abandonment for both patient and dear ones," they said in a joint dec...

Father Alexis Oser. / Credit: Press Diocese of Alto Valle de Río NegroACI Prensa Staff, May 14, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).After nine years without priestly ordinations, the Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro in Argentina on May 1 celebrated the ordination of Father Alexis Oser, 27.Bishop Alejandro Benna of Alto Valle presided over the ordination ceremony, which took place at the cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in General Roca, the city where the new priest will carry out his ministry.The last ordination for the diocese was that of Father Vicente Alberto Bó in 2014, who died in 2021 from C...

Mattel's newest Barbie doll / Photo courtesy of MattelDenver Newsroom, May 14, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).Many little girls grow up playing with Barbie dolls and wishing that a doll would look just like them. Now, little girls with Down syndrome can live this dream. The American toy company Mattel announced April 25 that the first Barbie with Down syndrome would soon be hitting the shelves.The first Barbie doll was released on March 9, 1959. Over the years, Mattel has released several kinds of Barbies representing different shapes, sizes, races, and ethnicities. In 1980, Mattel released the fi...