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Gina Christian is the National Reporter for OSV News.

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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

Bishop R. Walker Nickless looks on as Bishop-designate John E. Keehner Jr. speaks during a news conference at the pastoral center in the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 12, 2025, after Pope Francis appointed him the new head of the diocese. He succeeds retiring Bishop Nickless, who is 77. (OSV News photo/Diocese of Sioux City)

Pope Francis names Ohio pastor of four parishes as bishop of Sioux City, Iowa

Gina Christian|Feb 12, 2025|3 Min Read

Workers distribute shelter kits assembled by Catholic Relief Services at a camp for survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Catholic Relief Services Collection takes place in many dioceses March 18-19, 2023, to support the U.S. church's work overseas. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

CRS, Caritas warn of global impact of USAID shutdown

Gina Christian|Feb 12, 2025|5 Min Read

Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati is pictured in an undated photo. On Feb. 12, 205, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Schnurr, 76, from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and appointed Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey of Chicago as his successor. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Cincinnati)

Pope accepts resignation of Cincinnati archbishop, names Chicago auxiliary as successor

Gina Christian|Feb 12, 2025|6 Min Read

A church destroyed by a Russian attack on the village of Bohorodychne in Ukraine's Donetsk region is pictured Feb. 13, 2024. (OSV News photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, Reuters)

World

Report: Russia weaponizes Orthodoxy to persecute, kill Christians in Ukraine

Gina Christian|Feb 12, 2025|5 Min Read

Pope Francis greets members of the Missionaries of Charity at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2025, one day after it was announced that the pope had added the Sept. 5 feast of their founder, St. Teresa of Kolkata, to the General Roman Calendar. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Archbishop Broglio: Vatican decree on St. Teresa of Kolkata feast 'an occasion of joy'

Gina Christian|Feb 11, 2025|3 Min Read

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