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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 31, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

Read the stories in this episode:

• A federal judge temporarily shielded on July 30 four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.
• A Catholic-supported hospital in Gaza City sustained damage after an Israeli airstrike hit a nearby residential apartment late July 29, according to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association's Pontifical Mission in Lebanon and Syria.
• The Hillbilly Thomists are in the midst of a 10-city U.S. tour, scheduled to end Aug. 8 -- the feast of St. Dominic -- in Nashville for Dominican Fest at the Dominican Campus, home to three schools run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. 
• The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta is offering emergency assistance to civil authorities after more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, creating the largest migration crisis in the territory's history.
• As an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States face losing Temporary Protected Status, church leaders are calling for prayer and action.