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  • [ July 6, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV prays for victims, families of Texas flood disaster News Briefs
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A Catholic pilgrim’s harrowing escape from the Holy Land as Iranian missiles lit up the sky

June 19, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Cameron Mumford on pilgrimage in Jerusalem. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Cameron Mumford

Rome Newsroom, Jun 19, 2025 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Cameron Mumford came to Jerusalem on a solo Catholic pilgrimage to retrace the steps of Christ. By the end of … […]

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Kenya hosts landmark summit on religious freedom in Africa

June 18, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Delegates at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025. / Credit: ACI Africa

ACI Africa, Jun 18, 2025 / 09:46 am (CNA).
Martha Karambu Koome, the chief justice in Kenya, called upon delegates at the In… […]

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Over 450 children celebrate first holy Communion this month in Qaraqosh, Iraq

June 18, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Over 450 boys and girls received their first holy Communion during liturgies held over the past month in various churches of the town of Qaraqosh, Iraq. / Credit: Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq

ACI MENA, Jun 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA… […]

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Up to 200 displaced Nigerian Christians killed in ‘worst’ attack yet

June 16, 2025 Catholic News Agency 7

Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata … […]

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Lebanese cardinal urges Christians not to leave Middle East

June 16, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian popu… […]

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Monks close doors of St. Catherine’s Monastery as battle with Egypt government continues

June 6, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. / Credit: Harmony Video Production/Shutterstock

ACI MENA, Jun 6, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy… […]

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Nigerian priest who served in Alaska captured by Boko Haram, bishop says

June 5, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Fairbanks, Alaska, Bishop Steven Maekawa, OP, said he plans to offer a special Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Fairbanks for Father Alphonsus Afina, who was captured by Boko Haram on June 1, 2025. / Credit: RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimed… […]

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Red Cross: Conditions in Gaza ‘worse than hell on earth’

June 5, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Steve Dorsey, U.S. head of communications and public affairs for the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaks about civilian suffering in Gaza with “EWTN News Nightly” host Erik Rosales on June 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” scre… […]

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Popemobile converted into ambulance blocked from entering Gaza

June 3, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

The popemobile used by Pope Francis during his visit to Bethlehem in 2014. / Credit: Courtesy of Caritas

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 14:50 pm (CNA).
Prior to his death, Pope Francis donated the popemobile he used during his visit to Bethleh… […]

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Egyptian court ruling on St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai sparks outcry

May 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. / Credit: Joonas Plaan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

ACI MENA, May 30, 2025 / 12:02 pm (CNA).
An appeals court in the Egyptian city of Ismailia has ruled that the monks of St. Catheri… […]

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