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Miriam Cates, member of Parliament of the United Kingdom. / Credit: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLondon, England, Apr 22, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).Every Wednesday at noon in the House of Commons, the U.K. prime minister stands and faces a line of questioning from the leader of the opposition, followed by politicians of all political colors. This weekly interrogation makes for great entertainment for political junkies and is known as prime minister's questions (PMQs). It is reputed for its boisterous, brutal, and unforgiving atmosphere.On March 8, when it was time for PMQs, a qu...

A priest blesses the new integrated pediatric clinic, one of the first of its kind to be based out of a shelter for families experiencing homelessness in the country, April 20, 2023, before the ceremonial ribbon cutting by Darren Walsh, president & CEO of Catholic Charities of Denver. / Credit: André Escaleira Jr./Denver CatholicDenver, Colo., Apr 22, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, children experiencing homelessness are sick at twice the rate of children who have stable housing. To increase access to pediatric services, Catholic Charit...

Veteran Affairs health clinic in Eugene, Oregon. / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Apr 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted not to overturn a new rule adding abortion to the health benefits of veterans and their dependents, prompting objections from leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), who called the vote "a gross failure.""Our heroes and their dependents deserve quality health care services instead of policies to end the lives of their own children," read a joint statement Thursday from the USCCB's president, Archbishop Ti...

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II holds the Christmas Eve Mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's administrative capital, on Jan. 6, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt. / Islam Safwat/Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA).The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14.According to Father Martin Browne, an official at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, this liturgy will take place in the context of an official visit of Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria ...

A fragment on the true cross on which Jesus was condemned to death. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAWashington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Thanks to a gift from Pope Francis to King Charles III, two pieces of the true cross on which Jesus was crucified will lead the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom's coronation procession May 6.The precious relics have been inlaid into the "Cross of Wales," which will head Charles' procession into Westminster Abbey, where he will be officially crowned.Many will be watching the ceremony to witness the pomp and circumstance still found in the official...