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The Catholic Church celebrates the 26th World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2. For the 26th edition of the celebration this year, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has addressed a letter to the consecrated men and women inviting them to walk together as a community in the synodal spirit of participation, where members exercise responsibility for one another through mutual listening, excluding no one.

The city of Louisville, Ky., is paying a local police officer a $75,000 settlement after he was suspended for praying outside an abortion clinic, according to the firm representing him.

The 2022 World Watch List (WWL) released on Wednesday by Open Doors International shows that persecution against Christians continues to rise especially in Asian and African countries and that the COVID 19 pandemic has further exacerbated discrimination.

The World Health Organization chief says the combination of Delta and Omicron variants is driving a dangerous tsunami of Covid-19 cases that could put immense pressure on healthcare systems. The warning comes as global Covid infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period with many nations posting all-time highs.

Should you make a New Year’s resolution? If so, how can you involve your faith in the process? What can you do to set yourself up to be one of the 8 percent that follows through on the goal you set for yourself? CNA has some ideas to kickstart your 2022 on a positive note.

The Dicastery for Communication releases a free App entitled “Vatican for All” to provide information on the activities of the Pope and the Church in the world for people with sensory disabilities, as part of the “No One Left Out” project.

Yes. Catholics have an obligation to attend Mass on both Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25, and on the following day, Sunday, December 26.

Christian leaders in Jerusalem join forces to warn against the growing threat posed to the Christian presence in the Holy Land, and call for local civil authorities to confront the problem through dialogue.

Sacramental confession has healing abilities that priests should especially emphasize to help bring God’s love and consolation to a world damaged by two years of the coronavirus pandemic.

The past two months in Afghanistan have seen a 50% increase in cases of severe acute malnutrition among children. UNICEF warns that unless those children receive urgent aid they are at risk of dying.

Among the BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women worldwide for 2021 is a Catholic nun, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng.

Scientists at a university in Liverpool unveiled what they say is the most realistic portrait ever created of St. Nicholas of Myra, the popular 4th century bishop best known as the inspiration for the modern-day figure of Santa Claus.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report for 2021 stresses the need to make agri-food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, extreme weather conditions and armed conflicts.

The founder of a new nonprofit dedicated to fertility awareness wants women to ask questions.

A new international film festival will premiere this week, featuring the winning submissions of young people from 116 countries. Conceived in December 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first annual Don Bosco Global Film Festival received 1,686 short film submissions on the theme “Moved by Hope.”

On Thursday, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles discussed the rise of new secular ideologies and movements for social change in the United States during a virtual address to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life in Mad

The Catholic charity supporting the persecuted Church around the world is focusing this year’s annual campaign on Christian girls and women suffering abduction, forced marriage, forced conversion, and sexual violence.

A Chinese Buddhist temple, a Christian church and a Sathya Sai Baba Centre stand side by side along Moulmein Road in Singapore, the world’s most religiously diverse nation, according to a 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Center.

The number of Catholics in Asia and Africa continued to grow in 2019, according to newly released statistics.

n an effort to explain Pope Francis’ vision for the Synod on Synodality for his flock, Cardinal Timothy Dolan's homily Sunday offered seven “non-negotiables” that Jesus intended for the Church.