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Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, reported that in April “Canada surpassed 100,000 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization in June 2016.” According to the Sixth Annual Report released last year, from legalization in 2016 until December 31, 2024, there were 76,475 reported euthanasia deaths in Canada – about ... read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide up to $235 million through Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for emergency food and nutrition assistance in Sudan and Ethiopia amid widespread hunger.“More than 110,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown agricultural commodities” will be delivered to the two East African countries under an agreement in principle between CRS and ... read more

“More than 110,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown agricultural commodities” will be delivered under an agreement in principle between Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. An aid worker distributes measured portions of yellow lentils to residents of Geha subcity at an aid operation run by USAID, Catholic Relief ... read more

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and other Catholic organizations submitted public comments urging the Labor Department to reject a proposed regulation that would expand insurance coverage opportunities for in vitro fertilization (IVF).Regulators will consider a rule change that would create a category of limited excepted benefits that covers IVF and other fertility-related treatments. ... read more

U.S. Catholic bishops and other Catholic organizations warned that IVF destroys human embryonic life and encouraged the department to support life-affirming fertility treatments instead. A scientist looks at an embryology image touchpad at a laboratory. | Credit: Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) ... read more

Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas:’ On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, on May 15, 2026, the 135th anniversary of the encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ by Pope Leo XIII. ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ was released on May 25, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media. (Image composition: EWTN News) ... read more

Paul Tuns: On June 17, the tenth anniversary of the legalization of euthanasia in Canada, Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance (AMAD) issued an 88-page report recommending the federal government “indefinitely exclude” people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime. In 2021, Parliament expanded Canada’s ... read more

The Vatican's rare rebuke of Ambassador Burch, and the Gospel he tried to reclassify.   ... read more

Msgr. Arthur Holquin explores the Vatican's rare rebuke of Ambassador Brian Burch, and the Gospel he tried to reclassify.   ... read more

Fabio Gonnella/EWTN News David Willey, a longtime BBC correspondent who covered Rome and the Vatican for more than five decades, speaks with EWTN News in his home in Trevignano Romano, Italy, on Feb. 11, 2026. Willey died in Italy on July 11, 2026, at the age of 93. EWTN News spoke to the journalist ... read more

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi, right, receives Chaldean Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona. Church leaders applauded Iraq Prime Minister Ali Falih al Zaidi’s call for Christians and business leaders to return to their homeland but stressed the need for reform. ... read more

In his new book, JD Vance shares about his personal faith as well as the role of faith in the public sqaure. In ‘Communion,’ the vice president and Catholic convert argues that America should follow his lead by returning to its Christian roots ... read more

Father Pfleger has pastored the predominantly Black parish St. Sabina, located on the South Side of Chicago, since 1981. The Archdiocese of Chicago has withdrawn Father Michael Pfleger from ministry to review an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor in an instance that allegedly occurred more than 30 years ago. ... read more

Stephane de Sakutin People hold placards reading “Vote for cares. Not euthanasia” during a demonstration against a bill for the creation of a right to assisted dying at Esplanade des Invalides in Paris on Feb. 16, 2026. The final vote on the bill is set to take place Wednesday, July 15, 2026. ... read more

As African bishops continue to back Pope Leo XIV over the excommunication of the Society of St. Pius X, known as SSPX, the traditionalist group in Kenya rejected the schismatic tag as it moved to assure followers of its Roman Catholic identity. ... read more