Catholic News

Spending bills without Hyde seen as move to expand abortion on demand

Abortion demonstrators are seen near the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington March 4, 2020. The Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding for abortion as a permanent part of the law. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

First-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit

Displaced members of the Chibok community in Abuja, Nigeria, gather April 14, 2015, to mark the first anniversary of the mass kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Chibok by Boko Haram militants. As of July 16, 2021, the whereabouts of 112 girls remained unaccounted for. (CNS photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)