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Canadian government set to remove religious exemptions from hate-speech laws
Posted on 12/2/2025 20:04 PM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa. / Credit: Robert Linsdell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 18:04 pm (CNA).
Lawmakers with the Liberal Party of Canada have reportedly struck a deal with the Bloc Québécois party to remove the religious exemptions from the national code.
Bishops in Puerto Rico warn of ‘possible escalations’ in a US-Venezuela war
Posted on 12/2/2025 18:08 PM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral in Ponce, Puerto Rico. / Credit: Alex Lipov/Shutterstock
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA).
The Puerto Rican Bishops’ Conference is opposing the militarization being carried out by the U.S. on the island, an unincorporated U.S. territory.
Police suspect Croatian nun stabbed herself, falsely reported attack
Posted on 12/2/2025 15:33 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia. / Credit: Fogcatcher/Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2025 / 13:33 pm (CNA).
Police in Croatia’s capital city of Zagreb suspect that a nun stabbed herself and then falsely reported that she had been attacked, according to a police report.
Faceless Nativity scene on Brussels’ Grand Place sparks international controversy
Posted on 12/2/2025 12:08 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Brussels, Belgium, Dec 2, 2025 / 10:08 am (CNA).
Faceless cloth Nativity figures on Brussels’ Grand Place have sparked international debate over Christian tradition versus inclusive art.
Austrian nuns who escaped nursing home reject compromise offer
Posted on 12/2/2025 11:14 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Courtesy of Nonnen_Goldenstein
EWTN News, Dec 2, 2025 / 09:14 am (CNA).
Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now goes to Rome.
Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions
Posted on 12/1/2025 17:51 PM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
A screenshot from the Vancouver video in which Alissa Golob recorded her conversation with a health care worker at BC Women’s Hospital. / Credit: RightNow YouTube/B.C. Catholic
Vancouver, Canada, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA).
Alissa Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary in 2023.
Airbus computer issue affects papal plane during trip to Turkey
Posted on 11/29/2025 10:30 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The flights for Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic journey are taking place aboard an ITA Airways Airbus A320neo, one of thousands of Airbus planes affected by a computer issue, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News
Rome Newsroom, Nov 29, 2025 / 08:30 am (CNA).
Around 6,000 Airbus planes were grounded this weekend after it was discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers.
How Knock Shrine led a priest to build a successful airport
Posted on 11/29/2025 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Ireland West Airport in Knock, Ireland. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Ireand West Airport Knock
Dublin, Ireland, Nov 29, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Monsignor James Horan’s ambitious airport project is still transforming the west of Ireland 40 years later.
Pope Leo XIV appoints 2 new archbishops for western Canada dioceses
Posted on 11/27/2025 09:00 AM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
Bishop Stephen Hero celebrates Mass to start the Jubilee Year in December 2024 at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Prince Albert, Saskachewan. Hero has been appointed Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Prince Albert
Edmonton, Canada, Nov 27, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo appointed Bishop Stephen A. Hero as the archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, and Father Susai Jesu, OMI, as archbishop-elect of Keewatin-Le Pas.
New World Liberty Congress president analyzes ‘silence’ of Church in Nicaragua
Posted on 11/25/2025 09:00 AM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
Pope Leo XIV meets with Bishop Rolando Álvarez on Nov. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The new president of the World Liberty Congress recently analyzed the “silence” of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which is under persecution by President Daniel Ortega.