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CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Hospitals in China’s Xinjiang province regularly committ forced late-term abortions on Uyghur women and killed newborn Uyghur babies to enforce China’s family planning policies, according to a former hospital worker in the region.  Speaking to Radio Free Asia, Hasiyet Abdulla, who presently lives in Turkey, described the… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Pro-life conditions on U.S. health aid have not resulted in significant gaps in health care provision, and foreign NGOs have broadly accepted the provisions, multiple federal agencies reported on Tuesday.  The Departments of State and Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the U.S. Agency for… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 18, 2020 / 11:51 am (CNA).- Priests in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe have been warned that they could lose the faculty to preach if they give homilies longer than five minutes. The archdiocese told CNA the restriction is part of the archdiocesan response to the coronavirus pandemic. In the memo, sent… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2020 / 11:21 am (CNA).- A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s rule protecting doctors’ right to object to abortion and transgender surgery, just one day before it was to have taken effect. U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block issued a preliminary injunction Monday stopping the rule from being enforced… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2020 / 10:32 am (CNA).- Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. will offer a Mass of Peace and Justice on August 28, the 57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. The archdiocese announced the Mass on Monday, which will commemorate the civil rights march on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Aug 17, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- As life returns to normal in Italy, Catholic pilgrimage destinations are celebrating feasts publicly again. But, there’s one thing glaringly missing: international pilgrims. “Until there isn’t greater certainty, we won’t see a full recovery,” Sergio Desisto, spokesman for the Diocese of Rome’s pilgrim office spokesman Sergio… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 17, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Two prominent Catholics will offer prayers at the Democratic National Convention later this week.  Fr. James Martin, S.J., and Sister Simone Campbell, SSS will both offer prayers during the Democratic National Convention, it was announced on Sunday. Martin, along with a rabbi and an imam, will… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 17, 2020 / 10:10 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has donated ventilators and ultrasound scanners to hospitals in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. In a Aug. 17 press statement, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said that 18 Dräger intensive care ventilators and six Fuji portable ultrasound scanners would be shipped to Brazil on the pope’s behalf.… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 17, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis invited participants in an annual Catholic festival Monday to join him “in witnessing to the experience of the beauty of God.” In a message on behalf of the pope for this year’s Meeting for Friendship among Peoples in Rimini, Italy, Vatican secretary of state… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 17, 2020 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has urged consecrated men and women in Brazil to remember that Jesus must be their “first and only love.” In a letter marking the country’s First National Week of Consecrated Life, observed Aug. 16-22, the pope said that religious should prioritize prayer. In the… Read More »