Almost six months of war in Gaza, and the guns have not fallen silent Photo: The Conversation

A Bishop Denounces The Persecution of Catholics in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Russia’s actions in Ukraine increasingly resemble the Soviet Communist dictatorship’s practices against religious freedom. Furthermore, Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship has as allies some of the regimes that most fiercely persecute Christians in the world, such as the Islamist dictatorship of Iran and the Communist dictatorships of China, Cuba, and North Korea.

«Adoption Is Not a ‘Plan B’, It’s a True Vocation»: Young Influencers Who Bet on Adoption

We are experiencing this time as a «pregnancy of the heart,» a little longer than usual. Furthermore, we don’t know if it will be a boy or a girl, a baby or an older child, what features it will have… and this allows us to wait without labelling, loving without limits. In this process, we also consciously prepare for the arrival and, above all, we care for and strengthen our marriage, because it will be the pillar of the family that God entrusts to us.