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null / Photo by Patrick Thomas / ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Feb 15, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).In a Feb. 14 statement, the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference expressed its profound concern and disagreement with the Constitutional Court's recent decision to decriminalize euthanasia in the country."Human life is sacred and inviolable. Any complicity with death ends up being paid for by the weakest and most vulnerable. A society that does not defend them is condemned to the greatest manipulations and the worst tragedies. It is diabolical to want to defend life by giving a homicide a legal framework," the bishops said.On Feb. 7, the country's highest court declared Article 144 of the Penal Code to be constitutional in general (conditional constitutionality) but made an exception for euthanasia under certain conditions. The article punishes causing a person to die under various circumstances (i.e., not first degree murder) with prison sentences of 10 to 13 years. According to the cou...
Law enforcement responds to a shooting at Union Station during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on Feb. 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. / Credit: Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Feb 15, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA).Following a shooting in downtown Kansas City yesterday afternoon during a packed Super Bowl victory rally, nearly two dozen people were injured and one person, so far, is confirmed dead. The lone fatality so far, according to local news reports, was Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a local radio DJ and a parishioner at Sacred Heart-Guadalupe Parish in Kansas City. Police in a news conference Thursday said initial investigations pointed to a dispute between people that ended in gunfire, with no apparent links to terrorism. They identified the single deceased victim as "Elizabeth Galvan," 43. Lopez-Galvan's employer, KKFI 90.1 FM, had the day before announced her death in a Facebook post. The victim hosted a music program on the station called "...
St. Matthew Catholic Church appears gutted by fire, allegedly set by government soldiers, in eastern Myanmar on June 15, 2022. / Credit: Screenshot from KNDF Facebook videoCNA Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).A humanitarian aid group has warned of a rise in violence against the persecuted Christian minority amid the bloody civil war in Myanmar. At the same time, there are signs of hope, a project leader for Christian Solidarity International (CSI) told CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner. "Violence against Christian communities has increased enormously since the military regime ended the short-lived hybrid government agreement," Selina Biedermann said, highlighting the dire situation of what the U.N.'s chief investigator for Myanmar has called "systematic violence" following the 2021 coup.Biedermann detailed the intensifying suppression faced by Christians, who mostly hail from ethnic minorities like the Karen, the Chin, and the Kayin."Like the Rohingya ...
Icon of the 21 Martyrs of Libya. / Credit: Image courtesy of Tony Rezk, via tonyrezk.blogspot.comRome Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 09:03 am (CNA).The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter's Basilica on Thursday evening at an ecumenical prayer service marking their first official feast day in the Catholic Church.The evening vespers at the Vatican will commemorate the ninth anniversary of the martyrdom of the 21 Coptic Orthodox men who were beheaded by the Islamic State on a beach in Sirte, Libya, on Feb. 15, 2015.Pope Francis added the 21 Coptic martyrs to the Roman Martyrology, the Church's official list of saints, last May as he met with the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II.Cardinal Kurt Koch, the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, will preside over the ecumenical prayer at 5 p.m. in the Choir Chapel of St. Peter's Basilica. A Coptic choir will provide the music for the liturgy....
A 40 Days for Life prayer vigil. / Credit: 40 Days for LifeCNA Staff, Feb 14, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA).The 40 Days for Life campaign is inviting others to join in 40 days of prayer during the Lenten season for an end to abortion starting today, Feb. 14.The international 40-day campaign seeks to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and peaceful all-day vigils outside of abortion facilities, according to the group's website.Starting on Feb. 14, the beginning of Lent, and ending on March 24, Palm Sunday, individuals can take part in prayer vigils happening outside of abortion facilities in their local communities.The campaign aims to have participants hold prayer vigils nonstop, around the clock, for the 40-day, 960-hour period. "It is a peaceful and educational presence. Those who are called to stand witness during this 24-hour-a-day presence send a powerful message to the community about the tragic reality of abortion. It also serves as a call t...
A monastic community prays the Lord's Prayer. / Credit: DeClausura FoundationACI Prensa Staff, Feb 14, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).The DeClausura Foundation in Spain has launched a campaign to promote prayer during the liturgical season of Lent with the theme "Slow Down. Stop. Pray" as part of the Year of Prayer declared by Pope Francis.To help people draw closer to God during Lent, close to 100 convents and cloistered monasteries throughout Spain will open the doors of their churches on the third Thursday of Lent, March 7, at 7 p.m.It will be a special opportunity for the faithful to join in the communal prayers of various cloistered communities in almost all Spanish provinces.The religious orders participating include the Poor Clares, Franciscan Conceptionists, Carmelites of the Ancient Observance, Discalced Carmelites, Augustinians, Colettine Poor Clares, Cistercians, Brigettines, Benedictines, Canonesses, Visitation Sisters, Dominicans, Mercedarians, Jeronimites, and Comendadoras...
Diocese of Brooklyn priest Monsignor Kieran Harrington resigned from his position as the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States after an allegation against him of "inappropriate conduct with an adult" was substantiated, the Diocese of Brooklyn announced. / Credit: EWTN News Nightly YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 14, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA).Monsignor Kieran Harrington has resigned his position as the national director of The Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States (TPMS US) after the Diocese of Brooklyn found "sufficient proof" of "inappropriate behavior with an adult," which he has since admitted to.The Diocese of Brooklyn's Adult Allegation Committee (AAC) investigated Harrington after it received an allegation of "inappropriate conduct" on March 6, 2023. The committee found "sufficient proof" to support the allegation but did not disclose any specifics about the conduct. In a statement provided to CNA, Harrington admitted th...
Rep. Chris Roy, R-Texas, and several House members and pro-life leaders hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 14, 2024, in which they demand a federal investigation into the possible illegal killing of five unborn babies. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNAWashington D.C., Feb 14, 2024 / 18:45 pm (CNA).Pro-life House members are calling for autopsies and a full investigation into whether federal laws were broken in the late-term abortions of five babies whose remains were discovered by pro-life activists in Washington, D.C.Several members of Congress and pro-life leaders held a press conference in front of the Capitol on Wednesday in which they said that the five babies' remains suggest they may have been killed via an abortion method known as "partial-birth abortion," which is banned nationally under federal law.Partial-birth abortion is a procedure in which a doctor partially delivers a baby only to kill him or her by either crushing the skull or removing the brain...
Pope Francis meets with Argentina President Javier Milei in a private audience on Feb. 12, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).All eyes were on Pope Francis' first meeting with Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, Monday at the Vatican. After all, in the past Milei had employed virulent language against the pontiff, calling him "nefarious" and "an imbecile," among other invectives.However, since his unprecedented landslide victory last November, Milei has proceeded to soften his tone and opted to construct a more conciliatory relationship with the 87-year-old pontiff.In fact, there were no signs of rancor or resentment when the two leaders embraced in a viral photo on Sunday, Feb. 11, in St. Peter's Basilica after the canonization Mass of Mama Antula, Argentina's first female saint. The easy familiarity extended to their official bilateral meeting held in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on Monday, Feb....
The statue of the Blessed Mother pictured before the incident on its pedestal in front of the headquarters of Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska. / Credit: Catholic Social Services of Southern NebraskaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 14, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA).A local police investigation into the vandalization of a Blessed Virgin Mary statue outside a Catholic charitable group's headquarters in Nebraska is currently listed as "inactive" after police were unable to identify the perpetrator.Although one of the building's security cameras caught the vandal on video, Erika Thomas, a representative for the Lincoln Police Department, told CNA that the case is inactive and that "it doesn't look like there has been any movement on it because they don't have any suspects."The incident occurred on the campus of Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska (CSS) on Feb. 7 at 6:32 p.m.Video footage shows a man calmly approach and remove the Marian statue, which normally sits in f...
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