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Syrian minister of culture sparks controversy with Islamic chant in Orthodox church

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Syrian Minister of Culture Mohammed Saleh with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali inside St. Ananias Orthodix Church in Damascus, Syria. Billah Al-Assali performed an Islamic hymn with lyrics that directly contradict Christian beliefs…. […]

Pope Leo XIV calls for a ‘great cultural conversion’ in his greeting to Rimini meeting

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 4

Bernhard Scholz is president of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, also known as the Rimini meeting, which offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religi… […]

Bishop Barron warns about fake AI videos impersonating him

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester in Minneso… […]

Knock Shrine in Ireland draws pilgrims with confessions, healings, and message of hope

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Knock, Ireland, Aug 21, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA).
At Ireland’s Knock Shrine, the confessionals are “the engine room,” its rector says, powering… […]

Pope Leo XIV calls for fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and pr… […]

Federal judge blocks Texas from displaying Ten Commandments in public schools

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 5

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas Capitol. / Credit: BLundin via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:12 pm (CNA).
A federal judge has partially blocked the state of Texas from enforcing its law ordering the display of the… […]

Greek prosecutors charge Catholic clerics, civilians in 3 million euro embezzlement case

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

View of the Greek island of Syros. / Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA).
Prosecutors on the Greek island of Syros have filed felony charges against two Catholic clerics and six civil… […]

No justice 2 years after ‘the worst episode of violence against Christians’ in Pakistan

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Some of the damage caused to Christian homes by Muslim extremists in 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Two years after “the worst episode of violence against Christians”… […]

New digital app to link over 60 Catholic radio stations in east Africa

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Participants gather at the Aug. 18, 2025, launch event for a new digital app that will bring together 66 Catholic radio stations in east Africa. Father Don Bosco, editor-in-chief of ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, is pictured in the ce… […]

Nigeria, Iran, China top priority countries for new religious freedom commission chair

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 4

Burned vehicles after Good Friday raid on April 7, 2023, in Ngban, Benue state, Nigeria. / Courtesy of Justice, Development, and Peace Commission

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Nigeria is the deadliest country in the … […]

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