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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 3, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

Read the stories in this episode:

• The Diocese of El Paso, Texas, has shut down its long-running legal aid ministry to unaccompanied child migrants, as the Trump administration withholds almost $1 million in funding for work already performed. 
• Police in northern Nigeria are investigating the murder of a Catholic priest killed in an apparent roadside ambush in Kogi state.
• A Spanish missionary priest has been appointed to lead the Archdiocese of Rabat following abuse allegations against its leader, Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero.
• Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 97, returned to Albania’s former Spaç prison camp, where he secretly celebrated Mass during 18 years of forced labor, to publicly celebrate Mass July 31 and honor those who suffered and died there.
• Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray "for evangelization in the city" as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord to accompany millions searching for meaning amid the noise and haste of urban life.