Valentina Alazraki Named President of International Vatican Journalists’ Association

Nov 26, 2024 22:18

She succeeds Loup Besmond de Senneville, formerly the Rome correspondent for France's La Croix, who now serves as deputy editor-in-chief of the same publication in Paris. Photo: AIGAV

Gibbons is currently incarcerated following her latest arrest in June 2024

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Pilgrimage Pastoral Office at the Vicariate of Rome’s Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi (ORP)

This law extends Italy's existing ban on surrogacy

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USA: Abortion Is The Most Important Electoral Topic for Women

In the KFF study, four out of ten women younger than 30 consider abortion as the most important point for their vote. The survey was carried out between September and early October 2024. Another KFF survey at the end of May and beginning of June showed that only 20% mentioned abortion as the main problem.

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Pakistan: sentence mother of 4 children to death on blasphemy charges

Shagufta was convicted under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, whereby insulting the Prophet carries a mandatory death sentence.

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The Rise of Living Alone

As Crooks noted in Of Mice and Men, when people get lonely, they can get sick, and this becomes a public health problem. Research finds that loneliness and lack of social connection increase the risk of disease, anxiety, depression, dementia, and premature death.

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Women’s groups, 26 states ask US Supreme Court to hear cases seeking to protect women’s sports

A legal challenge to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act that, if successful, would undermine women’s sports by allowing males who identify as female to compete with females in girls’ and women’s sports.

Aug 20, 2024 18:00

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Pro-life pregnancy centers take NY attorney general to court for withholding life-saving info from women

The New York attorney general is using her power to censor pro-life pregnancy centers because they tell women about the option of using progesterone for abortion pill reversal. She is unlawfully targeting pro-life pregnancy centers, threatening punishment for promoting and offering a service that gives women the option of changing their mind and attempting to save their baby’s life.

Aug 14, 2024 18:06

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Pope Francis Extends a Hand of Compassion to Ukraine This Christmas

Cardinal Krajewski’s journey across Ukraine will not simply be about delivering equipment. It will be a pilgrimage of presence, as he visits communities ravaged by violence to listen, pray, and share in their struggles. His goal is to help open “the door of hope” in hearts burdened by despair and to stand as a symbol of global solidarity.

Pope Francis reveals two attacks against him that ended with the death of perpetrators

Francis recounts the chilling intelligence received by the Vatican Gendarmerie upon his arrival in Baghdad. British intelligence had flagged two potential attacks: a young woman carrying explosives was reportedly heading to Mosul as a suicide bomber, while a van laden with explosives sped toward an undisclosed target.

Valentina Alazraki Named President of International Vatican Journalists’ Association

The “grandmother” who has spent a total of 11 years in jail for opposing abortion

Male Self-Perceived Female Beats 14-Year-Old Girl in Sport: The Story of One Who Could Be Your Daughter

A woman at the head of one of the great works of the Church: Opera Romana dei Pellegrinaghi

USA: Female athletes, 23 states unite to defend fairness, privacy, safety in schools across country

Italy passes law banning “renting” surrogate wombs abroad

Cardinal Prefect of Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Repeats That Female Diaconate Is Not Mature and Explains Absence of Synodal Group

USA: Abortion Is The Most Important Electoral Topic for Women

Pakistan: sentence mother of 4 children to death on blasphemy charges

The Rise of Living Alone

Women’s groups, 26 states ask US Supreme Court to hear cases seeking to protect women’s sports

Pro-life pregnancy centers take NY attorney general to court for withholding life-saving info from women