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The Oregon State Capitol in Salem.

Oregon reports significant uptick in assisted suicides

Mar 28, 2024

Since the state’s passage of the “Death with Dignity Act” in 1997, assisted suicide numbers have been consistently rising there.

Pope Francis kisses the foot of one of the 12 women whose feet he washed at the Rebibbia Women’s Prison in Rome on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2024.

PHOTOS: Pope Francis washes the feet of inmates at women’s prison in Rome

Mar 28, 2024

The Holy Father has washed prisoners’ feet at numerous prisons around Rome through the years.

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Governors in West Virginia, Utah, Idaho sign religious freedom bills

Mar 28, 2024

The new laws protect student organizations at public universities and protects religious rights for faith-based adoption centers and foster care homes.

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Canadian judge grants 27-year-old autistic woman’s request for assisted suicide

Mar 28, 2024

The woman’s father argued against the decision, saying that his daughter “is generally healthy.”

South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem arrives to speak during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on Feb. 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland.

South Dakota to create ‘Med Ed’ video to combat ‘abortion misinformation’

Mar 28, 2024

The bill requires the South Dakota Department of Health to create an informational video describing the state’s abortion law.

St. Paul's Church, in Imphal, capital of Manipur state, after the church was set on fire in 2023.

Easter holiday is canceled then restored in heavily Christian Indian state

Mar 28, 2024

The March 28 reversal by the Manipur government came within 24 hours after Manipur Gov. Anusuiya Uikey canceled the Easter holiday.

Trump announced his Bible project on social media during Holy Week, saying he partnered with country singer Lee Greenwood on the initiative.

Trump’s Bible peddling: welcome message or ‘misunderstanding’ about the faith?

Mar 28, 2024

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s message touting a patriotic Bible is either seen as a welcome exhortation or a “potentially dangerous misunderstanding.”

The state capitol building of New Hampshire  in Concord, New Hampshire.

New Hampshire legislators reconsider ‘medical aid in dying’ legislation

Mar 28, 2024

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is poised to reconsider its narrow passage of a bill that would legalize assisted suicide in the “Live Free or Die” state.

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130,000 oppose leftist government’s attempt to change meaning of Spain civil war monument

Mar 28, 2024

A Spanish association has garnered more than 130,000 signatures on a petition calling for the Madrid government to protect the Valley of the Fallen.

On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis asks priests to weep over their sins

Mar 28, 2024

Pope Francis encouraged the priests to turn their gaze upon the crucified Lord and weep over their sins in repentance, saying tears can “purify and heal the heart.”

ACLU sues Ohio over law banning transgender treatments for minors

Mar 28, 2024

The law prohibits minors from receiving transgender drugs and surgeries, and requires that only biological girls can participate in high school and college female athletics.

5 tips for evangelizing on social media

Mar 28, 2024

Friar Nelson Medina, a Dominican known for his extensive apostolate on the internet, offers five tips for Catholics to do a better job evangelizing on social media.