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Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins. / Credit: "EWTN News in Depth"/ScreenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 at a Utah college campus, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action and a close friend of Kirk's, said: "His death will be a turning point."In an interview with "EWTN News In Depth," Hawkins called Kirk "a joyful warrior." She pointed out: "He was a man of God and just moments before he was assassinated, he had proclaimed that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior. And he never shirked away from that, just like he never shirked away from any of the other political debates … I believe with my whole heart, he died a martyr."Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and campus activist, "truly enjoyed having conversations with those who disagreed with him and having the opportunity to change their minds," Hawkins said. "He was a huge...
Kendrick Castillo, who died in a school shooting in 2019 and whose cause for canonization has been opened in the Diocese of Colorado Springs. / Credit: Photo courtesy of John and Maria CastilloWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).The Diocese of Colorado Springs announced it received a petition to open a cause for canonization for Kendrick Castillo, the lone fatal casualty after a shooting at a Colorado school in 2019, when the 18-year-old died after jumping into the line of fire to stop one of the shooters. "Knowing Kendrick, we knew that that was something that he would do," said his parents, Maria and John Castillo, in an interview with "EWTN News In Depth" this week."We're so humbled and grateful," John said about the opening of Kendrick's cause for canonization. "It's one of the greatest gifts that can ever be bestowed upon anybody. It's just the sheer mention of sainthood. We always have felt … that since Kendrick was born, he's been our saint. He'...
Vice President JD Vance (R) second lady Usha Vance (C) and Erika Kirk deplane Air Force Two while escorting the body of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 11, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. / Credit: Kirk, Eric Thayer/Getty ImagesCNA Newsroom, Sep 13, 2025 / 10:05 am (CNA).Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, vowed to continue her husband's work Friday night during an impassioned and deeply personal televised address that focused on the importance of faith and family life.Appearing on Fox News just two days after her husband was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet, fired from a rooftop on the campus of Utah Valley University where he was holding an outdoor event, she spoke for more than 16 minutes, maintaining her composure as she stood at a podium in her husband's podcast studio, beside his empty chair."I will never, ever have the words to describe the loss that I feel in my heart," said Erika Kirk, the mother of two young children, ages 1 and 3."I honestly hav...
The World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines 2025 no longer has the caveat that abortion drugs should only be used where "legally permitted or culturally acceptable." / Credit: KadirKARA/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA).Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.WHO promotes abortion drugs on essential medicines listPro-life leaders are expressing concern after the inclusion of abortion drugs in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s latest annual list of essential medicines, noting that the drugs can be "dangerous." The Model List of Essential Medicines 2025, released on "International Safe Abortion Day," had a section dedicated to abortion drugs, which for the first time did not include the caveat that these medicines are not legal or culturally acceptable everywhere. According to WHO, "the list no longer carries the boxed caveat, in place since 2005, that singled out these medicines as only to be used wher...
Alveda King has suffered three assassinations in her family: that of her father, Rev. Alfred Daniel Williams King; her grandmother, Alberta King; and her renowned uncle, Martin Luther King Jr. / Credit: "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo"/ScreenshotCNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).After the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a college campus on Wednesday, Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged people to pray."It broke my heart," King said when asked about her reaction to learning of the assassination."I was so very startled when I got the news that Charlie had been shot, and my heart immediately went to him and his family, his beautiful wife, his little children," she told Raymond Arroyo on EWTN's "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.""Having experienced those kinds of occurrences in my own family, I immediately went into prayer," she said.King shared about her own experience with political assassinations in her family. Not only was her uncle, Dr...
Pope Leo XIV greets participants in the third edition of the World Meeting on Human Fraternity at the Vatican on Sept. 12, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Sep 12, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV spoke out on Friday against what he called the business of wars, while condemning attitudes of rejection and indifference toward migrants and the poor, as he received some of the participants in the third edition of the World Meeting on Human Fraternity at the Vatican.Among those present were several Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Iraqi activist Nadia Murad, American Jody Williams, Liberian Leymah Gbowee, Yemeni Tawakkol Karman, Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege.In his remarks, the pontiff reflected on the need for fraternity and reconciliation in a world where wars "shatter the lives of young people forced to take up arms; target defenseless civilians, chil...
The premiere of "Triumph of the Heart" in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2025. / Credit: Nicole Marie RichardsCNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).A new film called "Triumph of the Heart" depicts St. Maximilian Kolbe's last days on earth in a starvation bunker in the German death camp of Auschwitz. The film will be released in theaters on Sept. 12.St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar and priest who volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz. He spent the last 14 days of his life in a starvation bunker alongside nine other men.The red carpet at the premiere of "Triumph of the Heart" in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2025. Credit: Nicole Marie RichardsAt the film's Sept. 8 premiere in Dallas, where over 1,000 people gathered at the Edith O'Donnell Arts and Technology Building on the University of Texas at Dallas campus to show their support and watch the film, writer and director Anthony D'Ambrosio told CNA on the red carpet that it was "surreal" to see the magnitude of th...
Regiane Cichelero. / Credit: Courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom InternationalSao Paulo, Brazil, Sep 12, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).The Santa Catarina State Court of Justice in Brazil has denied Regiane Cichelero's request to home-school her son. In its Sept. 2 ruling, the court upheld the previous decision requiring the child to be enrolled in a regular school in addition to a fine of 100,000 reais (more than $18,000).In 2020, with the closure of public schools in Santa Catarina state due to fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Cichelero decided to home-school her son. After schools reopened in March 2021, the lawyer decided to continue home-schooling him, believing it would guarantee a quality education in line with the family's religious beliefs.At that time, the school began an "active search" for Cichelero's son. The Child Protection Council went to the lawyer's home and warned her about the mandatory school enrollment requirement, according to the Child and Adolescent S...
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. / Credit: "EWTN News in Depth"Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 11, 2025 / 18:37 pm (CNA).Here's a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States:Benedictine College launches AI center on Carlo Acutis' canonization dayIn response to calls by Pope Leo XIV to the rise of artificial intelligence, Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, launched its new Center for Technology and Human Dignity to promote Catholic digital and biomedical ethics on the same day as Carlo Acutis' canonization on Sept. 7 in Rome. "We are excited to dedicate this center under the patronage of St. Carlo Acutis, a model of how Catholics should use new technology thoughtfully but without fear. And its biomedical emphasis will help as we pursue a medical school," said Benedictine College President Stephen Minnis in a press release. The center will be directed by Benedictine College Professor of Theology and Bioethics Mariele Courtois, who is ...
Father Vealumun Paul Ansbert Mom, the superior general of the Via Christi Society in Nigeria, has decried the state of insecurity in his diocese, saying he can no longer travel to his village because "everyone has been driven away by killer herders." / Credit: ACI AfricaACI Africa, Sep 11, 2025 / 11:34 am (CNA).The superior general of the Via Christi Society in Nigeria has decried the state of insecurity in his native Makurdi Diocese, saying he can no longer travel to his village.In an interview with ACI Africa on the sidelines of a canonical visit to St. Matthew Kuchikau Parish of the Diocese of Lafia on Sept. 7, Father Vealumun Paul Ansbert Mom described the current insecurity in Benue state and others in the north-central region of Nigeria as "deliberate persecution of Christians in the West African nation.""St. Paul Parish Ayititwa in Katsina-Ala Diocese was burnt down and destroyed. The parish house, rectory, and church building were reduced to ashes. From every evide...
