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Denver Newsroom, Aug 20, 2020 / 01:57 pm (CNA).- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has denied wrongdoing following allegations that Muslim detainees at a Miami facility are regularly forced to choose between spoiled halal meals and eating pork in violation of their religious beliefs. “By habitually serving Muslim detainees pork and spoiled, expired, and… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2020 / 12:45 pm (CNA).- Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada has agreed to pay more than $200,000 to resolve claims that some of its former employees fraudulently administered community service grants in 2014 and 2015. “Our organization took swift action to investigate the irregularities and to self-report through the proper channels,”… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops praised the Trump administration’s efforts to tie U.S. aid to pro-life policy on Thursday, following the release of a report indicating widespread compliance with the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy.  The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 20, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has praised a new initiative aimed at countering the abuse of Marian devotions by mafia organizations, who use her figure to wield power and exert control. “Freeing Mary from the mafia and from criminal powers” is an ad hoc department of the Pontifical International… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2020 / 01:29 pm (CNA).- A conservationist charity is calling for the preservation of George Mayer-Marton's The Crucifixion, a 1955 mosaic and fresco work located in a church that was closed in 2017 amid a diocesan reorganization. The artwork “is increasingly at risk of vandalism, theft, and the threat of redevelopment,”… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 19, 2020 / 12:10 pm (CNA).- A new survey of neonatal medical professionals in the Belgian region of Flanders has found that nearly nine out of ten approve of euthanizing newborn children diagnosed with serious, non-lethal, medical conditions.  The article, titled, “Healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards termination of pregnancy at viable stage”… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Aug 19, 2020 / 11:10 am (CNA).- A Benedictine abbot who helped to revive traditional monasticism and Gregorian chant in France was buried Wednesday in the 11th-century Abbey of Fontgombault, the monastery he led for more than 30 years. Dom Antoine Forgeot died Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption and the 65th… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2020 / 11:10 am (CNA).- Militants with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) reportedly attacked the town of Kukawa in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, abducting hundreds of people. Jihadists in nearly two dozen trucks attacked soldiers who were guarding Kukawa on Tuesday, overrunning the town and taking hundreds of people… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 19, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- A potential coronavirus vaccine should be made available to all, Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday. “It would be sad if, for the vaccine for COVID-19, priority were to be given to the richest! It would be sad if this vaccine were to become… Read More »