A commission of inquiry is at work in the country to establish who was responsible for the violence that broke out during elections last October.
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Thailand (CBCT) issues a pastoral letter urging Catholics across the country to vote responsibly in the forthcoming general election on February 8.
At the conclusion of the General Audience, Pope Leo recalls International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on 27 January, and invokes “the gift of a world without antisemitism,” free from prejudice, oppression, and persecution, and founded on “mutual respect and the common good.”
The Pope makes a brief statement to journalists in Castel Gandolfo and, commenting on the situation in the Middle East, urges people to pray for peace. Recalling Holocaust Remembrance Day, he says: “Let us fight against all forms of antisemitism.”
South Sudan’s Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba and President of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SSSCBC), Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, has condemned recent inflammatory language from senior military officials. He stated that the Sudanese Bishops strongly oppose calls for indiscriminate violence in Jonglei State.
Former prisoners of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau view what is happening in the world today with concern. They ask themselves whether the most difficult lesson of their lives will continue to offer humanity any wisdom at all, says the Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in an interview with Vatican News on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Eighty-one years after the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated, we remember the millions of lives lost to the Holocaust and focus on preventing the recurrence—in any form—of this form of “hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice”.
Following the halt in fighting, aid deliveries have increased. However, 100 children have died and nearly 100,000 remain severely underfed and in need of constant care.
North Korea fired several suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday.
Barham Salih, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, tells Vatican News about his meeting with Pope Leo XIV and the challenges the organization faces in assisting refugees across the globe.
