California Bishops on Marriage, Pope Leo on Ukraine, Sudan Cholera Outbreak, and More

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 25, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• California's Catholic bishops are teaming up with a national marriage ministry to strengthen family life throughout the state. 
  
  
• As the Trump administration seeks to implement its hardline immigration policies, it has prompted increasing alarm from Catholic immigration advocates. 
  
  
• Marking Ukraine's Independence Day, Pope Leo XIV pledged his prayers for the Ukrainian people in a message to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and encouraged Catholics to respond to Ukrainian religious leaders' request for prayers for peace.
  
  
• Catholic Church leaders are sounding the alarm over a deadly cholera outbreak sweeping across South Sudan and Sudan.
  
  
•  In the heart of southern Africa, more than 200 catechists -- many of them laywomen -- are now equipped to share the Catholic faith, thanks to the generosity of fellow Catholics in the U.S.