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U.S. to finance restoration of ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’ in Bolivia
Posted on 04/26/2026 04:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Preservation Fund will finance the project, which will repair and waterproof thatched roofs, reconstruct buttresses, and restore exterior walls and façades.
U.S. to finance restoration of ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’ in Bolivia
Posted on 04/26/2026 04:00 AM (EWTN News - Americas Catholic News)
The U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Preservation Fund will finance the project, which will repair and waterproof thatched roofs, reconstruct buttresses, and restore exterior walls and façades.
The laywoman who has quietly formed a generation of priests and sisters in South Asia
Posted on 04/26/2026 03:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
On World Vocations Day, EWTN News pays tribute to a woman called the “caregiver of vocations” in a place where Catholics are a minority.
Melkite priest finds consecrated host intact after 47 days in damaged church
Posted on 04/25/2026 07:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
“Jesus was waiting for us,” a priest in southern Lebanon said after returning to his damaged church in the town of Tbenine following the ceasefire on April 17.
Israeli, Polish foreign ministers spar on X about destroyed Jesus statue
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Israel and Poland’s foreign ministers argue on X, a mosaic of Jesus by a survivor of Nazism will be saved, South Korea’s Catholic population grows, and more in this week’s world news roundup.
Israeli, Polish foreign ministers spar on X about destroyed Jesus statue
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:00 AM (EWTN News - US Catholic News)
Israel and Poland’s foreign ministers argue on X, a mosaic of Jesus by a survivor of Nazism will be saved, South Korea’s Catholic population grows, and more in this week’s world news roundup.
Nebraska pro-life ministry brings ultrasounds to classrooms across the U.S.
Posted on 04/25/2026 03:00 AM (EWTN News - US Catholic News)
Heart of a Child Ministries, based on Omaha, is expanding by training pro-life leaders to present fetal development education in schools across the country.
Catholic Relief Services urges lawmakers to prioritize global hunger as farm bill vote nears
Posted on 04/24/2026 15:10 PM (EWTN News - US Catholic News)
The humanitarian agency stressed the need to protect international food assistance amid growing global hunger and domestic policy debates.
White House to bring back firing squads as Pope Leo XIV calls for U.S. death penalty to be abolished
Posted on 04/24/2026 13:29 PM (EWTN News - US Catholic News)
The federal government says it is moving to “strengthen” the federal death penalty while the pope is calling for an end to capital punishment.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr: U.S military action against Iran meets criteria for ‘just war’
Posted on 04/24/2026 12:59 PM (EWTN News - US Catholic News)
"Itʼs very easy to stand back and say, turn the other cheek, or take an absolutist position ‘you shouldnʼt be violent,’” Barr said. “But that begs the question, that doesnʼt really solve the problem."