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CNA Staff, Aug 22, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- The Catholic Church in Belgium has reported a significant rise in adult baptisms. CathoBel, the website of the Catholic Church in Belgium, reported Aug. 20 that 305 adults will be baptized this year, an increase of 61 compared to 2019.  The number of adult baptisms has… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Aug 22, 2020 / 03:34 am (CNA).- As wildfires rage across California, scorching more than 700,000 acres of land in multiple dioceses and killing at least four people, Catholics are asking for prayers and offering resources to the displaced. “In our diocese alone the CZU, River, Carmel Valley and Dolan fires have already… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2020 / 03:39 pm (CNA).- The U.S. Department of Justice has sided with a Vermont Catholic high school student who has said a state program wrongly excluded her participation in a college credit coursework program because she attends a religious private school. The Vermont Education Agency’s Dual Enrollment Program allows high… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Aug 21, 2020 / 01:23 pm (CNA).-   The U.S. bishops’ conference has canceled its in-person November meeting in response to the coronavirus pandemic, several sources have told CNA. Sources say that conference leadership is now considering whether to conduct an abbreviated virtual meeting in place of the canceled event. If the bishops… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- The chair of the US bishops' international justice and peace committee on Thursday called gratifying Israel's decision to suspend the annexation of parts of the West Bank, part of its normalization of relations with the United Arab Emirates, but reiterated the need for Israel to negotiate… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 21, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- The Iraqi prime minister has encouraged Christians displaced by ISIS to come home—but are the conditions right for a safe return? Catholic leaders and aid agencies say without stability and economic support, one of the world’s oldest Christian communities could become “a museum Church.” After… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2020 / 11:05 am (CNA).- The final night of the Democratic National Convention leaned heavily on the religious faith of nominee Joe Biden, while a Catholic priest was the only speaker to advocate for the rights of unborn children.  “For Joe, faith isn’t a prop or a political tool. I’ve known… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).-   French Bishop Marc Aillet expressed his objections to a bioethics bill recently passed by the National Assembly, which expands the legally protected grounds for an abortion in France to include "psychosocial distress,” a move which bishops have said assures abortion nearly on demand. Aillet, the… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- President Donald Trump tweeted late Wednesday night that he was honored by a video describing him as “the most pro-gay president in American history.” The video stands in contrast to praise from the U.S. bishops for numerous administration decisions related to the issues of transgenderism and… Read More »

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 »