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Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy. / Credit: Vincenzo Amoruso via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Rome Newsroom, Dec 5, 2024 / 17:35 pm (CNA).

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy, said he sees the appointment not as a personal honor but as a call to live out the Church’s mission even more fully.

The Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, kidnapped and expelled from the country a priest of the Diocese of Bluefields. / Credit: Pixabay

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA).

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has kidnapped and expelled from the country Father Floriano Ceferino Vargas, a priest of the Diocese of Bluefields.

Pro-abortion activists march in Mexico City on Nov. 26, 2024. / Credit: Congress of the State of Mexico

Puebla, Mexico, Dec 5, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA).

Over the past six years, the legalization of abortion has accelerated rapidly in Mexico, with 19 of the country’s 32 states taking steps to decriminalize it.

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Vatican City, Dec 5, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA).

On Oct. 16, Italy’s Senate passed a bill making it possible to prosecute Italian citizens for pursuing surrogacy abroad.

The nave of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on Nov. 29, 2024. The cathedral is set to reopen with a planned weekend of ceremonies on Dec. 7–8, 2024, five years after the 2019 fire that ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. / Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Rome Newsroom, Dec 5, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The Paris cathedral reopens on Dec. 8, but the celebrations for the cathedral’s return to worship will last until Pentecost next year.

Jaime Mayor Oreja inaugurates the sixth Transatlantic Summit of the Political Network for Values ​​held in Spain’s Senate. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa

Madrid, Spain, Dec 4, 2024 / 17:10 pm (CNA).

The theme for this year’s Political Network for Values ​​Transatlantic Summit from Dec. 1–2 in Spain was “For Freedom and the Culture of Life.”

Palliative care. / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock

London, England, Dec 4, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA).

The Association of Palliative Medicine in the U.K. is opposed to changing the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales.

Bishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua. / Credit: Bishops Conference of Nicaragua

Lima Newsroom, Dec 4, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The bishops of Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are inviting the faithful to participate in a day of prayer for the Church in Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan academic and political activist Felix Maradiaga speaks during an interview with AFP in Managua on Feb. 11, 2021. / Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Lima Newsroom, Dec 3, 2024 / 16:05 pm (CNA).

Catholics exiled from Nicaragua are expressing their gratitude for the recent letter of encouragement Pope Francis sent to the persecuted Church in the country.

Father Paul Goo, center, is pictured during a missions trip to the Philippines in 2017. He will serve in the Vatican's Secretariat of State beginning in January 2025. Goo is pastor of Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. / Credit: Photo courtesy of The B.C. Catholic

Vancouver, Canada, Dec 3, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).

Father Paul Goo said he will be “supporting the coordination of the Holy Father’s communication in English-speaking parts of the world.”