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Historic pro-life event in EU Parliament addresses debate over cross-border abortion funding

Three women share their stories of experiences with abortion at the pro-life event at the European Parliament in Brussels, Oct. 15, 2025. / Credit: European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ)

EWTN News, Nov 17, 2025 / 10:06 am (CNA).

A historic pro-life conference in the European Parliament challenged the “My Voice, My Choice” initiative as debate intensifies over EU-funded cross-border abortion access.

Violence against Christians rises sharply across Europe, report warns

A roadside wooden crucifix in Bavaria. / Credit: AC Wimmer/EWTN News

EWTN News, Nov 17, 2025 / 09:06 am (CNA).

A new report by OIDAC Europe documents 2,211 anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe in 2024, including a sharp spike in arson attacks on churches.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary: The married princess who embraced poverty

“The Charity of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary,” painted by Edmund Leighton, circa 1895. / Credit: Edmund Leighton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Nov 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

A patron of secular Franciscans, St. Elizabeth of Hungary is especially beloved to Germans as well as the faithful of her native Hungary.

St. Albert the Great: The Church and science are in harmony

Ernest Board (1877-1934), “Albertus Magnus Teaches in the Streets of Paris.” / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0

National Catholic Register, Nov 15, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Albert the Great, the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, was an assiduous Dominican whose accomplishments and gifts to the Church are difficult to exaggerate.

Paris archbishop recalls jihadist massacre 10 years ago, offers hope

French press reports on the jihadist terror attacks the night of Nov. 13, 2015. / Credit: BalkansCat/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 11:34 am (CNA).

Ten years ago on Nov. 13, armed jihadists stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and elsewhere in the city, murdering over a hundred innocent people.

Slovak bishops to ask for forgiveness on Day of Repentance

Archbishop Bernard Bober, chair of the Conference of Slovak Bishops. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/EWTN News

EWTN News, Nov 14, 2025 / 09:18 am (CNA).

The Day of Repentance on Nov. 16 will acknowledge failures “in relation to God, each other, and society at large.”

Vatican, German bishops continue dialogue on synodal body

Representatives of the Roman Curia and the German bishops’ conference meet to discuss the proposed Synodal Conference statute at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. / Credit: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz/Kopp

EWTN News, Nov 13, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).

Vatican and German bishops held their fourth meeting Wednesday to discuss the statute of a proposed “synodal conference” in Germany.

‘Miraculous touches of God’s presence’ in the most atheist nation in Europe

St. Nicholas Church in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. / Credit: Kirill Neiezhmakov/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 12, 2025 / 12:15 pm (CNA).

Nearly a quarter of Czechs declare themselves atheist, according to the 2017 Pew Survey on European Values.

Artificial intelligence is not an all-powerful deity, university expert warns

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Ana Lazcano of the University Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Francisco de Vitoria University in Spain warned that AI is not all-powerful.

Cardinal Müller calls for overcoming ideological divisions in the Church

Cardinal Gerhard Müller. / Credit: La Sacristía de la Vendée

Madrid, Spain, Nov 11, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has called for overcoming ideological divisions within the Catholic Church.