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CNA Staff, Jul 29, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Pro-life leaders have asked the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove the abortion pill from the U.S. market, in a letter sent on Tuesday. The letter was signed by nearly two dozen pro-life leaders. They urged FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to exercise… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 28, 2020 / 12:05 pm (CNA).- The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released a statement on Tuesday condemning the execution of five aid workers kidnapped by an Islamic extremist group. The aid workers were kidnapped last month and their killing was publicly announced last week by members of the Islamic… Read More »

Vatican City, Jul 28, 2020 / 10:15 am (CNA).- The cardinal leading the Vatican’s congregation on consecrated life said Monday that contemplative religious communities are needed and will not disappear, even as more than 30 monasteries closed in Spain last year. “Contemplative life is not destined to disappear, but must reflect with transparency the ideal… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 28, 2020 / 10:13 am (CNA).- A proposal in the Netherlands to allow assisted suicide for healthy individuals over the age of 75 has drawn criticism for offering death rather than social support to people who are lonely and depressed. Dr. Gordon Macdonald, head of the UK-based alliance Care Not Killing, called… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 28, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- In 2019, two friends launched a movement to protect churches across France in response to a wave of desecrations.  The friends — identified by their first names, Gauthier and Guillaume — decided to act after reading about the hundreds of attacks taking place annually against French… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 28, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Religious groups must have equal access to public grant programs, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced in new guidance issued on Monday. The guidance follows the recent Supreme Court decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue,  earlier this month, which ruled that faith-based groups could not… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 27, 2020 / 02:10 pm (CNA).- As Catholic schools prepare to reopen for in-person and remote learning in the fall, teachers and staff are bracing for the challenges both to students’ health and their education. On Saturday, CNA reported across various diocesan and archdiocesan Catholic schools that plan to reopen for… Read More »

St. Paul, Minn., Jul 27, 2020 / 01:01 pm (CNA).- Some pro-life advocates say that the recent push for racial equality in the US can be an awakening to the importance of their cause, and how the two problems can go hand-in-hand. Kateri Remmes, a 22 year old intern for Illinois Right to Life and… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 27, 2020 / 11:56 am (CNA).-   A California parish has restored an outdoor statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, after it was kicked to the ground and broken in an act of vandalism. On July 21, security cameras at St. Joseph Parish in Upland, California, captured a video of a young… Read More »