Three Vatican officials hold an online prayer vigil at the tomb of St. Peter to conclude the Digital Synod initiative, encouraging thousands of Catholic digital missionaries in their service to the Church in the key of synodality.

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As Pope Francis canonizes 14 new Saints, including the 11 Martyrs of Damascus, Bishop Simon Faddoul praises the three Maronite laymen among them for bearing witness to fidelity to Christ.

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Pope Francis urges the political and civil authorities of countries in the Amazonia to safeguard the fundamental rights of the indigenous Yanomami people, who live on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.

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Pope Francis presides at the Canonization Mass for 14 new Saints, including 11 martyrs killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith, and upholds their Christian witness by noting they lived Jesus’ way of service.

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Pope Francis sends a message to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, and challenges the Italian newspaper to report on the victories and defeats of athletes as “a way of thinking and living sport as a hymn to life.”

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Fr. James Bhola Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries the institution founded by Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, emphasizes the Italian priest’s focus on education at a ‘Meeting Point’ organized at the Holy See Press Office in anticipation of the canonizations by Pope Francis on the morning of Sunday, October 20.

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Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Polish priest, was killed for his anti-communist support and care for workers 40 years ago, and Pope St. John Paul II named him the patron saint of the Polish presence in Europe.

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Ahead of the 98th World Mission Sunday, set for October 20, the Pontifical Mission Societies releases a video to showcase the faces and voices of missionaries working in all corners of the globe.

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As the Church marks the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under the theme: “Whoever wishes to be great".

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Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

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