Bangassou, Central African Republic, Jan 5, 2021 / 02:56 pm (CNA).- The Central African Republic city of Bangassou has been captured by rebels aligned with an ex-president, Bishop Juan José Aguirre Muñoz of Bangassou has reported as he ap… […]
Nigerian biomedical scientist and pro-life activist Obianuju Ekeocha first made headlines when she penned an open letter to Melinda Gates, cautioning her not to impose her markedly Western understanding of women’s liberation onto African countries. […]
Rome Newsroom, Jan 5, 2021 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- Lebanon’s Maronite patriarch has said that the country could be facing “the risk of total collapse” amid a deepening economic and political crisis.
In his homily on Jan. 3, Cardinal … […]
CNA Staff, Jan 5, 2021 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The Scottish Catholic bishops have protested the closing of churches as part of Scotland’s newest coronavirus lockdown.
Scotland’s government announced the latest closure Jan. 4. The month-long loc… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 5, 2021 / 09:30 am (CNA).- The Croatian bishops’ conference is donating over $1 million in emergency aid to victims of the country’s December earthquake.
The money will go to help the most in need in the Diocese of Sisak and… […]
Rome Newsroom, Jan 5, 2021 / 08:35 am (CNA).- Iceland’s only Catholic bishop has called on the government to lift the country’s 10-person limit on Mass attendance, arguing that it is an “unfair discrepancy” within the current co… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 5, 2021 / 06:05 am (CNA).- A pontifical university in Poland is patenting a beer that will give drinkers a taste of the Middle Ages.
Sławomir Dryja, a lecturer at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, created the r… […]
Vatican City, Jan 5, 2021 / 05:10 am (CNA).- Pope Francis will not baptize babies in the Sistine Chapel this Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Holy See press office announced Jan. 5 that the newborns would be baptized instead in their home p… […]
Since the ancient Greeks, there have generally been two opposing impulses for political thought. The first is summed up in Plato’s Republic, the second in Aristotle’s polis. The republic is large and relies on the […]
Washington D.C., Jan 4, 2021 / 05:21 pm (CNA).- The word “amen” is not a gendered word and the term “a-women” is entirely made up, a professor of theology who specializes in Hebrew told CNA, after a prayer in the U.S. Congress u… […]
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