An Italian missionary has spent five decades empowering families and children in coastal Bangladesh to resist early marriage through education.

Bishop Socrates Mesiona issued a pastoral message for the National Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking that serves as a “call to the conscience of the entire nation.”

The pontiff told organizers of a Vatican-backed initiative that global crises are still leaving many children in extreme poverty.

In a break from major medical associations, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommends against gender surgeries and other medical interventions on youth.

Planned consecrations could trigger automatic excommunication and deepen rupture with Rome.

Regarding the miracle that occurred more than a century ago, the bishop of Tumaco noted that it was also known to St. Carlo Acutis and is part of the exhibition he created about Eucharistic miracles.

The North American country is known for being a global leader in suicide deaths.

February marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month being commemorated in the U.S.

The restored fresco in an ancient church in Rome sparked controversy after one of the angels depicted in the restoration bore a striking resemblance to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

U.S. bishops’ conference president Archbishop Paul Coakley called for keeping limitations of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which is set to expire on Feb. 5.