Peter Pinedo. February 26, 2024. National Catholic Register. Original Article. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 20 that frozen human embryos constitute children under state statute, a decision that could have wide-reaching effects on in vitro fertilization treatments in the state. Both former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are voicing staunch support…

Jude Atemanke. February 12, 2024. Catholic News Agency. Original Article. Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province (IEP) are alarmed by the recurrent and “pervasive” security challenges in the West African nation, which they compare to a battlefield characterized with hostility and killing. In a Tuesday, Feb. 6, communiqué following a two-day meeting, the Catholic Church leaders…

Lisa Zengarini. February 12, 2024. Vatican News. Original Article. The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) welcomes a recent European resolution condemning the 2023 Christmas massacre in Nigeria, but laments that the text downplays the religious causes of the violence. The European bishops have reiterated their grave concern over the persecution…

Brooke Singman. Fox News. January 31, 2024. Original Article. FIRST ON FOX: House China Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher is expected to warn that the Chinese Communist Party is “desperate to crush religion,” and is using it “as a tool to control people’s minds,” while declaring that the “opposite of Communism is faith in God.” Gallagher, R-Wis., will…

Laura Perrins. Catholic Herald. January 10, 2024. Original Article. This January sales time it appears you can get yourself a half-price baby. Or at least one at a reduced price, excluding delivery charge. This isn’t as flippant as it might sound. The reality we now inhabit is one in which the buying and selling of…