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Gina Christian is the National Reporter for OSV News.

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Vandalism to St. Patrick Church in Wichita, Kan., that occurred March 15, 2025, is seen in this image posted by the Kansas Catholic Conference to the conference's Facebook page March 15. (OSV News photo/Facebook/Kansas Catholic Conference)

Wichita Catholic church vandalized in what bishops call 'hate crime'

Gina Christian|Mar 18, 2025|3 Min Read

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, is seen Feb. 26, 2019, at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Bishop Seitz called for a protest against Trump administration mass deportations, with the demonstration set to take place in El Paso, Texas, March 24, 2025, the feast of St. Oscar Romero, and attended by an international delegation of bishops. (OSV News photo/David Agren)

Texas bishop announces march, vigil protesting mass deportations

Gina Christian|Mar 13, 2025|4 Min Read

Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia speaks of hope and resilience in Ukraine amid Russia's ongoing war during his March 6, 2025, keynote address at the University of Notre Dame's 2025 Ukrainian Studies Conference in Indiana. The event was a collaboration between Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute (part of the Keough School of Global Affairs) and Ukrainian Catholic University, of which Metropolitan Gudziak is president. (OSV News photo/Matt Cashore, courtesy University of Notre Dame)

Gudziak: Ukraine 'can give America hope to not be afraid' of living out Gospel call

Gina Christian|Mar 11, 2025|5 Min Read

Dominique Jordan, VP & wealth adviser at The Jordan Group at JP Morgan Wealth Management, is pictured in this undated photo. Jordan is a 2009 graduate of Verbum Dei Jesuit High School and was named as one of the 2025 40 Under 40 honorees by the Cristo Rey Network alumni association. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Cristo Rey Network)

Cristo Rey Network honors '40 Under 40' alumni, including three Verbum Dei grads

Gina Christian|Mar 11, 2025|3 Min Read

A humanitarian aid worker is pictured in a file photo packing Catholic Relief Services relief supplies in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, for distribution to people displaced in war-torn Gaza. (OSV News photo/Mohammad Al Hout for CRS)

Amid aid cuts, US bishop urges Catholics to heed 'very urgent' CRS collection

Gina Christian|Mar 10, 2025|3 Min Read

A statue of St. Joseph and the Christ Child is pictured at Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntington, Md., April 1, 2022. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops-organized Novena to St. Joseph for those whose life stories include adoption begins March 10 and ends March 18, 2025, the day before the feast of St. Joseph. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

St. Joseph novena guides those 'on the path to adoption'

Gina Christian|Mar 7, 2025|2 Min Read

In this undated photo, Msgr. Robert Coll, creator of the Rice Bowl Lenten initiative, speaks with youth during a Catholic Relief Services mission to African nations. Msgr. Coll started Rice Bowl in 1975 as a means of countering hunger while deepening campaign participants' faith. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Philadelphia/Al and Camille St. Pierre)

Amid U.S. foreign aid freeze, CRS' Rice Bowl could be in 'its strongest moment,' says founder

Gina Christian|Mar 6, 2025|5 Min Read

A homeless man sits with his belongings outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 22, 2023. Lent marks a call to live out God's love by supporting those in desperate need across the globe, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace said in a statement released on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Bishop Zaidan: Lent a call to support poor, vulnerable as 'neighbors without borders'

Gina Christian|Mar 5, 2025|4 Min Read

A woman prays during a Spanish-language candlelit Mass celebrated on the eve of the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas, at St. Joseph Church in the Staten Island borough of New York Feb. 1, 2025. A new study from Pew Research shows a leveling off in the decline of the number of U.S. residents identifying as Christian. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Pew: US Christianity downturn leveling, but Catholics suffer 'greatest net losses'

Gina Christian|Feb 26, 2025|5 Min Read

Father Ned Blick, a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., holds a prayer card of Father Emil J. Kapaun Sept. 28, 2021. While he continued treatment at Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis issued a series of decrees regarding several sainthood causes Feb. 24, 2025, including for Father Kapaun, a U.S. Army military chaplain who died in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea in 1951. The pope recognized his sacrifice as an "offering of life," a category distinct from martyrdom that the pope established in 2017. (OSV News photo/Karen Mikols Bonar)

US Army chaplain, Korean War POW and future saint? Father Emil Kapaun now 'Venerable'

Gina Christian|Feb 25, 2025|5 Min Read

A local resident gestures outside a residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2022, which was destroyed by a Russian missile strike. (OSV News photo/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Reuters)

World

'Ukraine will rise' as 'Russia brings death,' say Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops

Gina Christian|Feb 24, 2025|4 Min Read

Dr. Andrew Harper, medical director for Huntsville Reproductive Medicine, P.C., looks on as Lynn Curry, nurse practitioner for Huntsville Reproductive Medicine, P.C., opens IVF cryopreservation dewar in Madison, Ala., March 4, 2024. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 19, 2025, to develop policy recommendations to expand access to and affordability of in vitro fertilization. (OSV News photo/Roselle Chen, Reuters)

New executive order expands access to IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching

Gina Christian|Feb 19, 2025|4 Min Read

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