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Poll: Record-high percentage of US adults say immigration generally a good thing for country
OSV News
July 16, 2025
As the Trump administration implements its hardline immigration policies, a record-high share of U.S. adults said immigration generally benefits the country, a new Gallup Poll found.
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80 years after ‘Trinity,’ Catholic-hosted gathering calls to abolish nuclear weapons
OSV News
July 15, 2025
Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide.
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Kansas Catholic school building vandalized, defaced with swastikas
OSV News
July 14, 2025
A Catholic school building in Kansas has been extensively vandalized, with the perpetrators defacing the property with swastikas.
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Congolese Catholics honor their beatified martyr of ‘integrity and honesty’
OSV News
July 11, 2025
Hundreds of Catholics in Congo gave thanks for the recent Rome beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a customs official who was killed and tortured for refusing a bribe.
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Ukraine religious leaders issue ‘desperate cry’ to world to end Russia’s war
OSV News
July 10, 2025
Ukraine's religious leaders have issued a "desperate cry" to the global faith community in ending "the humanitarian and spiritual catastrophe" resulting from Russia's war on their nation.
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Judge blocks, for now, Planned Parenthood defunding provision backed by bishops
OSV News
July 9, 2025
A federal judge placed a temporary restraining order on a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
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More states move to copy ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ amid reports of inhumane conditions