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House Republican chair: Dobbs anniversary is ‘opportunity to continue to strengthen culture of life’


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

The first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is an “opportunity to continue to strengthen the culture of life,” Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, chair of the House Republican Conference, said 20 at an event hosted by a pro-life group in the nation’s capital to mark the occasion.

From intolerance to genocide: religious liberty violations driven by ‘tense’ global conditions, says report


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News

“Tense” global conditions — including the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and increases in the cost of living — lead to religious freedom violations in countries around the world, according to a new report by Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical foundation of the Catholic Church.

‘Exciting times’ for Baltimore and Oblate Sisters as Mother Lange’s sainthood cause advances


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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore rejoiced June 22 at the prospects of one of their own moving closer to sainthood. Mother Lange, also the founder of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, was declared venerable when Pope France signed a decree recognizing her as having “lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way. “

Papal envoy heads to Ukraine for sixth time to ‘assist those in need,’ put spotlight on suffering people


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OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

While desperation mounts in Ukraine amid more than 480 days of war — and in the aftermath of the destruction of a dam that caused the flooding of dozens of towns in the south of the country — Cardinal Konrad Krajewski traveled to the country June 22 for the sixth time “to assist those in need.”

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