Cardinal Zuppi meets with Biden to discuss humanitarian work in Ukraine

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi and U.S. President Joe Biden. / Credit: Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images and Niall Carson/Pool/Getty Images Washington D.C., Jul 19, 2023 / 10:07 am (CNA). Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi met with President Joe Biden Tuesday evening to discuss the Vatican’s humanitarian efforts in war-torn Ukraine. A statement from the White House following the […]

Capitol Hill Democrats introduce bill to end federal death penalty

null / felipe caparros/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 19, 2023 / 10:40 am (CNA). Congressional Democrats introduced a bill to abolish the federal death penalty, calling the policy “state-sanctioned murder” and “deeply flawed.”  Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said in a press release that the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2023 “would […]

July 19, 2023

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