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Mexico’s presidential candidates sign Catholic Church’s ‘Commitment to Peace’ initiative

The three candidates running for president of Mexico met in the country’s capital March 11 to sign the National Commitment to Peace, an initiative proposed by the Catholic Church to address growing violence in the nation. This initiative is a result of the National Dialogue for Peace, which took place in September 2023, organized by the […]

A record percentage of young adults will never marry, study shows

A new study claims one-in-three young adults in the United States will never marry. Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Lyman Stone says these are close to the lowest levels ever observed for marriage rates.”Many commentators will blame these declines on the increased delay in marriage. While there’s some truth to this, the […]

Catholic conversions hit record highs around capital

Record numbers of people are expected to become Catholics this Easter in parishes across London and south-east England. Nearly 850 people are on the cusp of entering the Church, according to new figures from the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark. More than half live in the Archdiocese of Southwark, which covers parishes in south London […]

Three Egyptian Coptic monks killed in South Africa

Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been “brutally killed” inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. “Three monks were subjected to a criminal assault inside our Coptic monastery,” a spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church said in statement posted on Facebook on March 11, without elaborating. South African police said they were investigating […]

Cuban priest: ‘Communism won’t survive’ and ‘the Church will remain’

In an interview with EWTN Noticias, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News, Cuban priest Alberto Reyes spoke about his apostolic ministry in Camagüey province, located in the central area of the island, and about how his defense of religious freedom on the island has earned him friends and enemies alike. Reyes did not hesitate […]

Russian Catholics join in mourning Alexei Navalny

Prominent Russian Catholics have urged church members to continue condemning human rights violations after the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, despite warnings people who attended could face police reprisals. “Although I wasn’t a great fan of Navalny, he was capable of mobilizing large groups wishing to classify themselves as liberal opposition – and he […]

Church must revisit concept of complementarity, women say

As the world marks International Women’s Day, Catholic women from around the world have hailed recent steps made, but called for more to be done to create space for them in positions that matter in the Church. They also called for a reexamination of the Church’s “complementarity theology” – the view that men and women […]

Argentine President Milei: Abortion is aggravated homicide

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, says abortion “is murder aggravated by the bond” between mother and child and condemned the so-called “voluntary interruption of pregnancy,” a euphemism for killing the child in the womb. The statement was part of a March 6 speech at the beginning of classes at the secondary level at Cardenal […]

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