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Nigerian Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi declared this week that Kaduna State in northern Nigeria faces “near-anarchy” because of an ongoing assault against the Christian population by Muslim extremists.

The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis has no “political position” on Russia’s war on Ukraine but he condemns it unequivocally.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States, has called out the “scandalous claims” by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, regarding Italy’s Law 194 legalizing abortion.

ROME — Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic has cancelled EuroPride events scheduled to be celebrated in Belgrade in September, following massive street protests.

ROME — The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, has defended his statement on Italian television that Italy’s 1978 law legalizing abortion is a “pillar of society.”

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life called Italy’s notorious Law 194 legalizing abortion “a pillar of society” this weekend, and that no one is looking to overturn it.

Pope Francis said that both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war suffer from “madness,” an affirmation that provoked a sharp rebuke from Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See.

Exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio José Báez said Sunday that what is needed in Nicaragua is freedom and not negotiations with dictator Daniel Ortega, in an apparent correction to Pope Francis, who has called for “dialogue” to resolve the situation.

Pope Francis sent a telegram Thursday expressing his condolences for the Coptic Church fire in Giza, Egypt, that claimed the lives of dozens and left many more injured.

Pope Francis reiterated his appeal for an intergenerational alliance between young and old Wednesday, insisting the elderly “possess the wisdom of dying.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Monday that Russia’s “cruel, bloody war brought untold suffering and pain to the Ukrainian people.”

The Ukrainian ambassador to the Holy See, Andrii Yurash, has invited Pope Francis to come pray at the mass graves of “innocent victims massacred by the Russian army.”

A new Vatican questionnaire offers respondents a third option when declaring their sex, namely: male, female, and other.

The Atlantic has likened the rosary to an AR-15 assault weapon in an incendiary attack Sunday on conservative Catholics.

Some fifty thousand protesters took to the streets of the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Sunday, calling for the cancellation of an upcoming EuroPride event scheduled for September 12-18.

A band of unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Catholic priest along with a seminarian in southern Nigeria, demanding a ransom of $120,000 for their release.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk declared Saturday that God is on the side of the Ukrainians since he always supports the “unjustly aggrieved.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk continued his protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Friday, condemning Russia’s thinly veiled threat to bomb a nuclear power plant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone with Pope Francis Friday, thanking him for his prayers and asking for support.

Plans for an alleged bank heist in Rome were thwarted this week when the tunnel being dug to the bank vault collapsed, leaving one of the would-be thieves buried for hours, Italian media report.

National Public Radio (NPR) is now resorting to the euphemism of “aborting a pregnancy” rather than speak of aborting a fetus or a child.

Pope Francis met a group of transsexuals in the Vatican this week, the fourth such encounter just in 2022, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports.

The woke Guardian newspaper asserts this week that “global heating” is responsible for the corruption of forests “from the Arctic to the Amazon.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk declared Wednesday that “no one doubts that Ukraine will win” the war against Russia.

Pro-life advocates in Ireland have denounced government action towards outlawing even silent prayer outside of abortion clinics as a violation of the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and peaceful protest.

Pope Francis warned Wednesday that the pursuit of “eternal youth” is a dangerous pipe dream that prevents people from focusing on things that really matter.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue reported Monday on a worrisome increase in anti-Catholic acts both “at home and abroad.”

ROME — Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has asserted the Catholic Church is “pacifist,” at least in a certain sense, Vatican News revealed Tuesday.

The Vatican has named the former president of Greenpeace Italy to oversee the transition of Saint Peter’s Basilica to zero carbon emissions, Italian media reported Monday.

The UK-based online journal Christian Today wondered aloud Monday whether Lambeth 2022 might signal “the end of the Anglican Communion.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk urged his compatriots who have been forced from their homeland to be “worthy ambassadors” of Ukraine.

Pope Francis pointed to the departure of ships filled with grain from Ukrainian ports as fruit of dialogue and a sign of hope Sunday.

Climate change has impaired the ability of meteorologists to accurately predict severe weather events, according to the director of India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Pope Francis met on Saturday morning with Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See, Andrii Yurash, to discuss a possible visit to Kyiv.

Ukraine is weeping and bleeding due to its “unequal battle with the Russian occupier,” declared Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk in a video message Friday.

The Nicaraguan National Police announced Friday it has opened an investigation into Catholic leaders for allegedly inciting violent acts with the intent of destabilizing the country.