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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 »

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 »