Although abortion has been legal in the country since 1978, by a large majority vote in the legislature the small European nation has inserted the "freedom to abort" in the constitution.

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the women of St Anne’s Sodality in Southern Africa are renewing their commitment to accompany families, empower women, and respond to the growing crisis of gender-based violence.

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An exhibit honoring the 19 Algerian martyrs is making stops at major cities around the globe. The postulator for the martyrs’ cause and the sister of one of them tells EWTN News what they stood for.

Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia has till now served as the Vatican's representative to the United Nations in New York.

Polish archbishop Antoni Baraniak was beaten, starved, and interrogated 145 times by the Stalinist regime — and never yielded.

In a speech to the members of the Italian Military Ordinariate, Pope Leo emphasizes the importance of memory and of being at the service of those in need.

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As Iran strikes targets across Iraq in retaliation for Israeli-American airstrikes, the Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad tells Vatican News of his deep concern over the risk of a wider regional war, and calls on Iraq’s religious leaders to speak out for peace.

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Dominican Father Mykhailo Romaniv regularly travels over 500 kilometers to the front lines to provide aid in one of the most war-torn cities, Kherson, through a social kitchen. A recent visit from Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe helps offer support and help to the community there in the midst of bombardments.

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Pope Leo appoints Archbishop Gabriele Caccia - Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations since 2019 - as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. In a statement, Archbishop Caccia highlights this new role as a “mission at the service of communion and peace.”

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As the Church observes the Third Sunday of Lent, Abbot Marion Nguyen offers this reflection on “Lent at the well of truth”

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