James Dobson, the evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and founder of Focus on the Family, an influential family counseling ministry, passed away on Aug. 21.
Bishop Robert Barron warned about the proliferation of fake videos created with artificial intelligence circulating on social media impersonating him.
“We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than a decade, told CNA.
Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22, coinciding with the liturgical feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A federal judge has partially blocked the state of Texas from enforcing its law ordering the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Priests in the Catholic Diocese of Syros in Greece face charges in nightclub money laundering scandal.
In August 2023, Muslims in the village of Jaranwala in the Diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan looted and burned more than 25 churches and at least 80 Christian homes.
The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa recently celebrated the launch of a new digital app for Catholic radio stations in the region.
Nigeria is the deadliest country in the world for Christians, according to the new chair of the U.S. Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF).
Frank Caprio, a Providence, Rhode Island, municipal court judge for nearly 40 years, passed away on Aug. 20 from pancreatic cancer.
The federal government considers marijuana — cannabis, the name of the plant that contains psychoactive compounds called cannabinoids — a Schedule I substance.
The Bolivian Bishops’ Conference expressed hope after Bolivia’s recent general election, which marked a change in the country’s political direction.