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null / Credit: ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 13, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week signaled that prisons throughout the United States must provide prisoners with transgender-related medical care, including "hormone therapy" and other gender-related requests. The department said in a press release on Tuesday that the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) had "violated the Americans with Disabilities Act" when it "failed to provide" a male prisoner with access to "hormone therapy." The prisoner in question had claimed to identify as a woman and had "repeatedly requested" access to female hormones as well as special accommodations such as "female clothing" and the modification of "pat search policies." The individual's gender dysphoria "worsened during [his] incarceration" at UDOC, the DOJ said. The department in its finding ordered UDOC to "adopt, revise, and implement relevant policies, practices, and procedures" in order ...
The Coptic Orthodox Church said Pope Tawadros II is aware of the attack that happened March 12, 2024, in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Johannesburg, South Africa. / Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty ImagesCNA Newsroom, Mar 13, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA).The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that three monks were attacked and murdered Tuesday in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Cullinan, South Africa, 18 miles east of the country's capital, Pretoria.In an official statement, the church said the attack resulted in the martyrdom of Father Takla El-Samouili, the diocesan vicar; Father Youstos Ava-Markos; and Father Mina Ava-Markosthree.According to Reuters, all three victims were found with stab wounds while a fourth who survived alleged that he was hit by an iron rod before fleeing and hiding, said South African police spokesperson Col. Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi.The BBC reported that an Egyptian member of the ch...
Confucius statue in Nanjing Confucius Temple, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China. / Credit: aphotostory/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Mar 13, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).The Vatican sponsored a dialogue in Taiwan this week as the Catholic Church prepares to release official guidelines for engagement with Confucianism, one of the most influential religious philosophies in the history of China.Father Paulin Kubuya, the undersecretary for the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, traveled to New Taipei City for the meeting at Fu Jen Catholic University. He told CNA in an interview on March 12 upon his return to Rome that the guidelines could help Catholics in East Asia to navigate living out the faith amid their cultural traditions.Father Paulin Kubuya in the offices of the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. Credit: Courtney Mares/CNAKubuya is from the Democratic Republic of Congo and is fluent in Chinese after serving as a Xaverian missionary in Taiwan. During his ...
null / Credit: Daniel Jedzura/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).A survey of more than 22,000 Americans found that support for homosexual marriage declined slightly and support for businesses who refuse to violate their religious beliefs went up in 2023 when compared with 2022.The American Values Atlas survey, which is produced by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), is released annually. The report details trends on these topics from 2014 until the most recent 2023 survey. Homosexual marriage support declinesThe survey found that 67% of Americans supported homosexual marriage in 2023, which is a two-point decrease from the 69% that recorded their support in 2022. This is the first time the annual survey found a downtick in support since 2015.Support for homosexual marriage also declined among self-identified Catholic respondents, but a majority still supported it. The decline was significantly larger among Hispanic Catholics, wh...
Pope Francis meets on April 29, 2023, with children and adults who are visually impaired and have other disabilities at a Catholic institute in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann. / Vatican MediaCNA Staff, Mar 13, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).The University of Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life and the National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD) are together hosting six online seminars in March and April to help develop pastoral guidance regarding the experiences and needs of persons with disabilities.The online series, "In Communion: Advancing the Full Participation of Persons with Disabilities in the Church," launched on March 7. Each seminar highlights a different angle on communion and participation and features three to four speakers.The seminars were launched in light of an upcoming pastoral statement on disability and inclusion in the Church that was announced in June of last year. The USCCB Committee on Laity, Marriage, Famil...
Speaking with EWTN Capitol Hill correspondent Erik Rosales, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, railed against the Biden administration's passivity as more than 400 attacks against Catholic churches in the U.S. have been perpetrated during the last four years. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News NightlyCNA Newsroom, Mar 13, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).The need for the pro-life movement to update its strategy and hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to address the wave of vandalism against Catholic churches across the country were the top two issues raised by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, in an interview with EWTN News.Speaking with EWTN Capitol Hill correspondent Erik Rosales, Rubio expounded upon his proposed pro-life strategy released earlier this year. As part of that strategy, the Florida senator called on pro-life Americans to rally behind "supporting mothers and their babies with compassionate, pro-family policies; exposing the Democrats' abortion extremism; and protect...
The Maine State House in Augusta. / Credit: Wangkun Jia/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).Over a dozen state attorneys general are threatening a possible lawsuit over a bill in the Maine Legislature that extends legal protections to out-of-state residents seeking transgender-related medical procedures.The March 11 letter, signed by 16 attorneys general, argues that Maine's LD 227 would "contravene the lawful policy choices of our states' citizens" by "imposing on the rest of the country Maine's views on hotly debated issues such as gender transition surgeries for children."The proposed measure, if passed, would offer legal protection to out-of-state individuals who seek transgender procedures in Maine. The measure would also extend legal protections to "reproductive health care services." State legislatures around the country have in recent months moved to limit or prohibit both abortion and transgender-related medical services.In their letter, the prose...
null / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024 / 18:25 pm (CNA).Doctors in England can no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children to facilitate a gender transition, according to an announcement from the country's public health care system, the National Health Service (NHS)."Puberty blockers … are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria because there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness," the NHS England website's section on "treatment" for gender dysphoria reads after the update.The drugs block a child's natural developments during puberty by preventing the production of hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen. For example, they prevent height growth, a girl's breast development, and a boy's facial hair growth, among other things."Children, young people, and their families are strongly discouraged from getting puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones from unregulated sources or onli...
Chega leader Andre Ventura addresses supporters at Marriot Hotel, where the party holds the election night event, in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 10, 2024. / Credit: ANDRE DIAS NOBRE/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Digital, Mar 12, 2024 / 19:00 pm (CNA).The defeat of Portugal's Socialist Party and the success of a populist conservative party in the March 10 legislative elections has dramatically shifted the political landscape in the Iberian nation.The Democratic Alliance, a centrist coalition, elected 79 deputies, two more than it had in the previous legislature. The Socialist Party (PSD), which had 120 parliamentarians, was the election's loser and elected only 77. However, the conservative party Chega ("Enough") made huge gains, increasing its seats from 12 to 48.In its political program, Chega defends the "natural family based on the intimate relationship between a woman and a man," the authority of parents in the education of their children, the encouragement of birth rates, and the...
In a speech during a meeting with Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and other Coptic Orthodox representatives on May 11, 2023, Pope Francis announced that the Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Catholic Church's official list of saints. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 12, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA).The Coptic Orthodox Church has confirmed that its decision last week to suspend dialogue with the Catholic Church was due to Rome's "change of position" on homosexuality.In a video released on Friday, Coptic Orthodox spokesman Father Moussa Ibrahim said "the most notable" of nine decrees emanating from the church's annual Holy Synod, which took place last week in Wadi El-Natrun in Egypt, was "to suspend theological dialogue with the Catholic Church after its change of position on the issue of homosexuality."The video message followed the conclusion of the Holy Synod the day before and an accompanying statement...
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