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Pope Francis receives relics of the Coptic martyrs from Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, May 11, 2023. Pope Francis also announced that the 21 men will be added to the Church's official list of saints. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 11, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis said Thursday that the Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Catholic Church's official list of saints. He also received a relic of the martyrs' blood as a gift."I am glad to announce today that, with the consent of Your Holiness, these 21 mar...

The Agape Pregnancy Resource Center in Des Moines, Iowa, was vandalized in June 2022. / FBI Omaha OfficeBoston, Mass., May 10, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The FBI's Omaha, Nebraska, field office is offering a major reward to anyone who can help identify the individual or group who vandalized a pro-life pregnancy center in Des Moines, Iowa, in June 2022. The request comes following a yearlong string of attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation, which began after it was reported in May 2022 that Roe v. Wade would be overturned.The bureau is offering $15,000 to anyone provi...

Migrants in Greece. / Ververidis Vasilis via www.shutterstock.com.Denver, Colo., May 11, 2023 / 13:10 pm (CNA).In his message for the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, released May 11, Pope Francis recognized the migratory flows of our times as "the expression of a complex and varied phenomenon" that requires analysis of the different stages, including the departure, arrival, and the possibility of returning to one's homeland.The Church observes the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on the last Sunday of September, which this year falls on Sept. 24. This year's theme is &quo...

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Key Catholic leaders ministering to migrants at the border pose for a photograph with President Joe Biden Jan. 8, 2023. Left to right: Bishop Seitz of El Paso, Texas; Sister Norma Pimental of Brownsville, Texas; and Ruben Garcia, director of migrant shelter Annunciation House. / Diocese of El PasoWashington D.C., May 8, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso issued an open letter to Congress on May 5 strongly condemning the Secure the Border Act of 2023 as "extreme" and expressing the U.S. bishops' position that the bill's passage "is beyond justification.&...