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Religious leaders: sexual orientation laws threaten freedom

Dec 14, 2016

It’s time to end coercion against those who recognize marriage as a union of one man and one woman and... Read more

Legal group: Federal law can't require sterilizations at Catholic hospitals

Dec 10, 2016

Hospitals run according to Catholic ethics shouldn’t be coerced into performing sterilizations, a legal group has said after the American... Read more

Downtown Houston, Feb. 25, 2014.

Houston carries out 'witch hunt' on pastors opposing 'bathroom bill'

Oct 15, 2014

City officials in Houston have filed a subpoena against local pastors over a lawsuit regarding a bill that would do... Read more

The late Gedelieva De Troyer (L) and her son, Tom Mortier. Photos courtesy of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Legal group: Belgium's assisted suicide law failed a depressed woman

Sep 10, 2014

Belgium’s doctor-assisted suicide laws allowed an unqualified doctor to kill a depressed mother who did not have a terminal illness... Read more

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks during a rally for the organization.

Report suggests Planned Parenthood may defraud taxpayers

Aug 12, 2014

By Adelaide Mena

A report investigating audits of Planned Parenthood claims to show that the national abortion provider’s practices may have led to... Read more

Participants at the opening of the plenary meeting of the World Health Assembly on May 19, 2009.

Hate-speech laws a 'tool of totalitarianism,' lawyer warns

Jul 9, 2014

By Elise Harris

During a recent event discussing the origin and implementation of European hate-speech laws, lawyers argued that the “ill-conceived” laws pose... Read more

Planned Parenthood statement prompts offer of Bible donation

Jun 9, 2014

A pro-life legal group has responded to claims that Scripture is silent on the topic of abortion by offering to... Read more

Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, speaks at the ADF Media Conference in Rome, March 24, 2014.

Cardinal Burke stresses Catholic media’s 'supreme importance'

Mar 28, 2014

Cardinal Raymond Burke has praised the work of Catholic media, noting its importance in forming a pro-life culture that respects... Read more

Global symposium aims to educate media on religious liberty

Mar 24, 2014

Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal advocacy association, is hosting a conference in Rome this week to inform members of the... Read more

Presents under the Christmas tree.

Christmas toy drive for schools is constitutional, lawyer says

Nov 21, 2013

By Carl Bunderson

After two public schools ended their affiliation with an evangelical-run Christmas toy drive for impoverished children, a lawyer with a... Read more

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Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of St. Mark the Evangelist inside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice on April 28, 2024.

Pope Francis’ visit to Venice showcases art as means of encounter, fraternity 

Pope Francis waves while traveling by boat in Venice, Italy, for a meeting with young people at the Basilica della Madonna della Salute on April 28, 2024. Earlier in the day he met with inmates at a women's prison.

Pope Francis arrives in Venice, meets with women inmates and artists

Members of the Provincial Episcopal Assembly of Bukavu (ASSEPB).

Democratic Republic of Congo bishops: Amid growth of Church ‘the Congolese state is dead’

Prayer house at San Simeone, Italy, September 2012.

Catholic movement in Italy dedicated to people ‘far from the Church’

Father Leo Riley, 68, continued to serve as a priest for years after a 2020 sexual abuse lawsuit was filed against him and the Diocese of Venice, Florida.

Florida priest continued in active ministry for three years after sex abuse lawsuit filed

Pope Francis meets Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her 6-year-old daughter on Jan. 10, 2023.

Pope Francis to attend G7 summit to speak on artificial intelligence

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.”

Pier Giorgio Frassati could be canonized during 2025 Jubilee, cardinal says

Gia Chacón (right), founder of March for the Martyrs, said the plight of the tens of thousands of Christian Armenians pushed out of their homes in the disputed Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh region hash been "completely overlooked by the mainstream media.”

March for the Martyrs raises awareness of persecuted Armenian Christians and more

The members of the general board of directors of the Regnum Christi Federation, before its first general convention from April 29 to May 4, 2024, in Rome.

Regnum Christi: ‘It would have been easy to run and hide,’ but the Church is ‘purifiying’ us

Facade of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.

Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church

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