The Cardinal Secretary of State has returned from a visit to Mozambique where he met with displaced people fleeing armed Islamist militias.
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Diocese of Kontagora’s Catholic Bishop, Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, on Monday confirmed to Vatican News the release of 130 students and staff abducted from St. Mary’s Primary and Secondary School in Papiri on 21 November. The children and staff were part of an original 315 victims forcibly taken by gunmen from the school in the night.
Following his second visit in six months to the Gaza Strip—the first since the ceasefire—the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem speaks of a strong desire to return to normal life.
Israel’s security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, deepening the government’s push to expand its presence in the territory.
The only entirely Christian village of the West Bank is getting ready to celebrate the Lord’s coming in an atmosphere halfway between the joy of the festivity and the fear of new attacks by Israeli colonists.
Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s decrees on priestly training and on priestly life and ministry, Pope Leo XIV’s new Apostolic Letter aims at a deeper understanding of the ministry and role of priests.
On 14 December 1975, on the eve of the conclusion of the Holy Year and ten years after the lifting of the mutual excommunications, Pope Paul VI unexpectedly bent to the ground to pay homage to the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Reflecting on the figure of Saint Joseph on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Pope Leo XIV recalls the virtues he lived of piety, charity, and mercy that educate the heart to encounter Christ and our brothers and sisters. As we await the birth of the Saviour, he encourages us to be “a welcoming manger, a hospitable home, a sign of God’s presence” and that all children may live in peace.
Ukraine’s president says the United States has proposed a format for peace talks that would place Ukraine and Russia at the same table, but he doubts such a meeting would bring real progress. Zelenskyy spoke as a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine killed at least eight people and wounded twenty-seven, while Ukrainian drones hit several Russian targets.
Violence begets death and destruction, revenge begets hatred and pain. News and pictures from Gaza and other war-torn lands show the physical and moral suffering of the innocent and defenceless.
