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Catholic News Agency ACI Prensa's latest initiative is the Catholic News Agency (CNA), aimed at serving the English-speaking Catholic audience. ACI Prensa (www.aciprensa.com) is currently the largest provider of Catholic news in Spanish and Portuguese.

  • Construction of Marian tower on Sagrada Familia begins
    on April 23, 2021 at 1:00 am

    Sagrada Familia. / Stuart Pinfold via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Barcelona, Spain, Apr 22, 2021 / 19:00 pm (CNA). Work began Tuesday on the completion of the spire atop the Virgin Mary’s tower of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and is scheduled to be completed in December. The spire will consist of […]

  • Cardinal Bo and Cardinal Sarah among speakers at Budapest International Eucharistic Congress
    on April 21, 2021 at 6:00 pm

    Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary. / Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). More than 25 cardinals and bishops will take part in the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, which will include Cardinal Charles Maung Bo and Cardinal Robert Sarah among its […]

  • 'Go to Joseph': What popes from Bl Pius IX to Francis have said about St Joseph
    on April 21, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    A detail from Joseph with the Child and the Flowering Rod, by Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678–1752). Public Domain. Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2021 / 10:01 am (CNA). The proclamation of the Year of St. Joseph by Pope Francis in December 2020 coincided with the 150th anniversary of the saint’s […]

  • ‘This is about freedom’: EWTN Poland’s director thanks Catholics for helping to unblock...
    on April 21, 2021 at 12:00 pm

    The perpetual adoration chapel in Niepokalanów, Poland. / EWTN Poland. CNA Staff, Apr 21, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA). Employees of EWTN Poland were preparing for the Feast of Divine Mercy when they noticed a glitch in their YouTube channel, which brings live perpetual adoration to thousands of people […]

  • St. John Paul II bust vandalized outside Polish Catholic church in Paris
    on April 20, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    The entrance of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption Church in Paris, France. / Aloveswiki via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A bust of St. John Paul II was vandalized Monday outside a Polish Catholic church in Paris. An unidentified perpetrator poured red paint over […]

  • Catholic charity: Migrant arrivals by sea tripled in Italy in 2020
    on April 20, 2021 at 6:00 pm

    Survivors and family members of African migrants who perished in a 2013 shipwreck near Lampedusa in the Mediterranean sea leave an audience with the Pope, Oct. 1, 2014. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Refugees and migrants who worked in the restaurant and hotel […]

  • Spanish bishop calls government sex ed guides ‘aggressive and crude’
    on April 20, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    Bishop Luis Argüello, Secretary General and spokesman for the EEC. / Screenshot Youtube CEE ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 20, 2021 / 10:32 am (CNA). Warning: This article contains graphic sexual content that may not be appropriate for all readers.   A Spanish bishop has decried as “aggressive and […]

  • Report: Vatican considering sale of London property at heart of financial scandal
    on April 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    A view of St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican flag - / Bohumil Petrik Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Vatican is thinking about selling the London property at the center of a financial scandal at the Secretariat of State, which lost an estimated $100 million in the building’s […]

  • All-Ireland Primate to health minister: priests’ pastoral work should be deemed essential, not...
    on April 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm

    Archbishop Eamon Martin. Credit: Northern Ireland Office (CC BY 2.0). CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA). A senior Catholic archbishop told Ireland’s health minister on Monday that priests’ pastoral work should be “deemed essential, rather than subject to penal sanction” amid the […]

  • Africa seeing ‘dramatic increase in jihadist groups,’ says global religious freedom report
    on April 20, 2021 at 10:20 am

    A funeral Mass in Nigeria. / Aid to the Church in Need. Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2021 / 04:20 am (CNA). Aid to the Church in Need published a religious freedom report Tuesday documenting a “dramatic increase” in the presence of jihadist groups, some aligned with the Islamic State, in Sub-Saharan […]