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Pope Leo XIV receives Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam
Posted on 08/26/2025 01:09 AM ()
Pope Leo XIV holds a private audience with Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders and of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.
Cardinal Parolin: "We are appalled at what is happening in Gaza"
Posted on 08/25/2025 11:41 AM ()
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, speaking in Naples at the opening of the 75th National Liturgical Week, expresses his deep concern over the Israeli bombing of Gaza, saying it makes "no sense" and warning of the worsening humanitarian crisis.
Cardinal Parolin: Liturgy is a 'place' of closeness, hope, sign of peace
Posted on 08/25/2025 10:30 AM ()
At the opening of the 75th National Liturgical Week in Naples, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin reflects on how the liturgy embodies the Jubilee Year’s central theme of hope, interwoven with faith and charity.
Caritas Internationalis: Famine in Gaza violates Genocide Convention
Posted on 08/25/2025 09:33 AM ()
Caritas Internationalis warns that the man-made famine in Gaza constitutes a flagrant breach of international law, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and calls for urgent global action to uphold human dignity and protect civilian life.
Caritas Pakistan provides aid to the thousands suffering from floods
Posted on 08/25/2025 07:53 AM ()
Caritas Pakistan Executive Director reports that 2,500 flood-affected families—some 17,500 people—are expected to receive aid, in the form of food packages, hygiene kits, and drinking water.
Twenty killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital
Posted on 08/25/2025 06:00 AM ()
Palestinian health officials say that at least 20 people have been killed in strikes on the Nassa Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
Pope commemorates 400th anniversary of first Lithuanian priest in India
Posted on 08/25/2025 04:39 AM ()
Pope Leo XIV commemorates the anniversary and witness of Fr. Andrius Rudamina, a Lithuanian-born Jesuit who traveled more than 5,000 miles to India in 1625 to preach the Gospel.
Pope: Altar servers help lead faithful into sacred Mystery of Mass
Posted on 08/25/2025 03:53 AM ()
Meeting with altar servers from France, Pope Leo XIV laments the country’s lack of priests and upholds the ministry of young people at the altar, saying the dignity of their service helps lead people into the sacred greatness of the Mystery.
Pope Leo XIV to inaugurate Laudato Si’ Village in Castel Gandolfo
Posted on 08/25/2025 03:03 AM ()
Marking the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical Laudato si’, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to open Castel Gandolfo’s Laudato Si’ Village, a place where spirituality, education, and care for creation come together.
Church in Thailand equips seminarians for deaf ministry
Posted on 08/25/2025 02:42 AM ()
The Catholic Church in Thailand is stepping up efforts to strengthen pastoral care for the Deaf, beginning with a training program for seminarians at Fatima Minor Seminary in the Archdiocese of Thare-Nongseng in the northeast of the country.