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  • Attendees lay flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to mark the 109th anniversary of World War I-era mass killings on April 24, 2024. / Credit: KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). As historians and human-rights activists mark the 109th anniversary of the Armenian […]
  • Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Franciscan University of Steubenville will continue to separate its housing, restrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams on the basis of biological sex — rather than self-asserted “gender identity” — despite recent federal […]
  • null / Credit: KieferPix/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Provisional data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week showed that the fertility rate in the United States hit a record low and the total number of births in the country was the lowest it’s been […]
  • There are now more than 100 priests in the four dioceses of Sierra Leone. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). Bishop Natale Paganelli, 66, arrived as a Xaverian missionary in 2005 in Sierra Leone. In an interview with the Catholic magazine Omnes posted April 25, he noted that […]
  • Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023. / Credit: Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner CNA Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 13:57 pm (CNA). Four German bishops on Wednesday distanced themselves from the controversial Synodal Way’s plans for a permanent body to oversee the Church in Germany, instead […]
  • null / Orhan Cam/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The addition of “gender identity” in the Biden administration’s interpretation of anti-discrimination rules could jeopardize state laws that restrict women’s sports and women’s locker rooms to only women, according to legal scholars.Late last week, President Joe Biden’s Department of Education redefined […]
  • Families, donors, and others gather with Bishop Erik Pohlmeier for the dedication of the “Precious Ones Baby Mausoleum” at the San Lorenzo Cemetery in St. Augustine, Florida, on April 23, 2024. / Credit: Fran Ruchalski/courtesy of the Archdiocese of St. Augustine CNA Staff, Apr 26, 2024 / 09:51 am (CNA). Families gathered with St. Augustine […]
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened up to veteran EWTN News anchorman Raymond Arroyo about his family’s strong faith growing up, how his faith helped him overcome drug addiction and how it impacts him in his day-to-day life in the travails of U.S. presidential politics. / Credit: EWTN News "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo" / […]
  • Students, faculty, monks, and staff at Belmont Abbey College took part in their first “Cover to Cover” Bible Marathon Reading Event from April 8–12, 2024.. / Credit: Nicholas Willey CNA Staff, Apr 26, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Eighty-five hours and 42 minutes. That was the time it took students, faculty, monks, and staff to […]
  • An aerial view of Washington Square in San Francisco on May 22, 2020. / Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). San Francisco police arrested a homeless man last Sunday for allegedly stabbing a Catholic parishioner after an altercation involving the two outside a historic Catholic church […]