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Stephen Destin is executive director of the Partnership for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News NightlyCNA Staff, Mar 6, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).During the latest round of violence in Haiti, heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of the country's main international airport, after gangs attacked the country's two biggest prisons and released thousands of inmates. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred and had no passengers on site, but gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers.In an interview with EWTN News Nightly anchor Tracy Sabol, Stephen Destin, executive director of the Partnership for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti, said "international intervention is mandatory … to avoid bloodshed." Destin says there's "no possible way" to leave the country because "all commercial flights [are] being canceled," while "the main routes in and out of the capital" are being ...
United States Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on his way to a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 2, 2021. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA).United States Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is demanding that President Joe Biden protect Catholic churches from the "growing number of attacks" they have suffered since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In a March 5 letter addressed to the nation's second Catholic president, Rubio cited a tracker that found more than 400 attacks against Catholic churches since May of 2020. The tracker, last updated on March 5, lists numerous examples of property damage, including arson, statue destruction, rocks and bricks being thrown through windows and the spray painting of satanic messages. "These attacks are not random nor are they the result of a temporary lapse in judgment by perpetrators," Rubio, who is Catholic, wrote. "They are motivated by a deep and abiding animosi...
Monsignor Aurelio Gazzera, coadjutor Bishop-Elect of the Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic (CAR). / Credit: ACNACI Africa, Mar 6, 2024 / 16:20 pm (CNA).Monsignor Aurelio Gazzera, coadjutor bishop-elect of the Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic (CAR), has promised to promote dialogue with various rebel groups operating in the country, noting that he seeks to be a "symbol of peace" in his leadership. In a Monday, March 4 report by the Catholic pontifical and charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, Gazzera, who was appointed bishop on February 23, said CAR remains "very difficult and unstable" as the situation is still "precarious in large parts of the country.""I will try to listen to everyone and, with my limited powers, to be a symbol of peace," Gazzera said.Monsignor Aurelio Gazzera, coadjutor Bishop-Elect of the Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic (CAR). Credit: ACNHe added, "I will do every...
A bill granting protections for IVF procedures is heading to the desk of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. / Public DomainWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 17:12 pm (CNA).Thirteen of the country's leading national pro-life groups are urging Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to veto a recently passed bill that would institute broad protections for in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers in the state.The bill, already passed by both the Alabama House and Senate, gives blanket immunity to IVF providers for the "damage or death of an embryo" conceived through IVF.IVF is a fertility treatment, opposed by the Catholic Church because it separates the marriage act from procreation and destroys embryonic human life. Acknowledging the advances in science available today to those seeking help having children, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops warns Catholics on its website of the ethical issues involved."The many techniques now used to overcome infertility also have profound moral implicati...
Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 7, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Lima Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Quebec in Canada has announced that Pope Francis has appointed a retired judge to lead an investigation into the accusations of sexual abuse against Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, charges that the cardinal "categorically" denies.In a March 4 statement, the Archdiocese of Quebec said that it was informed "last Feb. 8 that Pope Francis has commissioned André Denis, a former judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, to conduct an investigation" into the accusations against Lacroix.What is Lacroix accused of?Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, the archbishop of Quebec and member of the Council of Cardinals that advises Pope Francis, has been accused of abusing a 17-year-old girl almost four decades ago, as part of a lawsuit against his archdiocese. The cardinal has previously denied the accusation.Accordi...
null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 6, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).Sixteen Republican attorneys general are threatening legal action against YouTube and its parent company Google for placing a 'misleading' label on pro-life videos.Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led the effort to send a letter to Google executive Neal Mohan on Monday, regarding labels placed on pro-life videos on the social media platform. The letter said the notices violate the First Amendment and spread "false" information about abortion that "minimizes and downplays some of the serious risks of abortion drugs," potentially endangering women's lives.The letter cites an example of a pro-life video on YouTube about chemical abortion posted by Alliance Defending Freedom in February. Under the video a notice appears with the title, "Abortion health information." The message says that surgical and chemical abortion are procedures "to end a pregnancy" done "by a licensed healthcare professional."YouTube posts simila...
The small group of Germans peacefully praying for an end to abortion were accosted by some 20 assailants wearing hoodies who shouted in their faces, harassing them, mocking them, insulting them, provoking them and intimidating them with aggressive behavior. / Credit: 40 Days for Life FrankfurtLima Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 18:32 pm (CNA).Tomislav Cunovic, lawyer and executive director of 40 Days for Life International, denounced the March 1 attack by abortion activists on a group of people peacefully praying for an end to abortion in Frankfurt, Germany.In a March 3 statement Cunovic said the attack was carried out by about 20 individuals "from the extreme left" who harassed, threatened, and insulted a group of people who were praying the Rosary about 100 feet from the facilities of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in the Palmengarten area, a distance established by law for this type of peaceful demonstration."Although this arrangement also respects the ...
Pope Francis appeared in a wheelchair at his general audience on Feb. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis this week used his general audience to focus on the vice of pride, with the Holy Father for the second consecutive week relying on an aide to read his remarks."Today's catechesis will be read by a monsignor," the pope said on Wednesday, "because I still have a cold and can't read well."The pope delivered the Angelus address from the window of the Apostolic Palace the prior two Sundays. He has relied on aides to read his public addresses since the Vatican announced he was suffering from "mild flu" symptoms in late February.The pope's catechesis on Wednesday focused on the vice of pride, which the Holy Father argued was the "great queen" of all the vices."Those who give in to this vice are far from God, and the correction of this evil requires time and effort, more than any other battle to which the Christian is called."Po...
Baltimore, Maryland / Sean Pavone/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 14:42 pm (CNA).Lawmakers in Maryland this week halted the advancement of a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, the latest instance in recent years of such a proposal failing to advance in Maryland amid opposition from Catholic groups. HB933, also known as the End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act), would have legalized physician-assisted suicide for certain patients with terminal illnesses who went though a requesting procedure. The bill failed to move out of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in the Maryland General Assembly March 1. The Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC), the public policy arm of the state's Catholic bishops as well as the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Wilmington, reported that the bill was only "one to two votes short" on the 11-member committee that was ...
The Redemptor Hominis chapel of the National Shrine of St. John Paul II in Washington, D.C., is decorated with mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Lawrence OP|Flickr|CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).In light of several serious accusations of abuse against Catholic artist Father Marko Rupnik, the Knights of Columbus told CNA that they "are carefully considering the best course of action" concerning the priest's mosaics that adorn the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. With the assistance of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and a small, lay staff, the Knights of Columbus own and operate the St. John Paul II National Shrine, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors and pilgrims from across the country and world. Calls to remove the priest's artwork from places of worship have been mounting around the world. Yet, extensive Rupnik artwork in the John Paul II Shrine's two chapels...
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