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At the Sunday Angelus, the Pope makes a heartfelt appeal to international decision-makers to take responsibility for seeking solutions to conflicts. He expresses satisfaction over the new peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but also deep sorrow for the violence that continues to devastate Haiti.
Following the kidnapping of nine people in Haiti over the past week, the Archdiocese of the capital strongly condemns the incident and “the failure of the state and of society that is losing its sensitivity for life.” It calls on the people “to raise their voices, unite in prayer and take measures to reject this climate of dehumanisation.”
Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Mario Grech as Special Envoy to the celebration marking fifty years since the coronation of the altarpiece of the Assumption, venerated in the Cathedral of Gozo, Malta.
A senior Vatican official has praised the Catholic Church in Malawi for its growing investment in children’s missionary formation through the Holy Childhood Movement.
The Apostolic Nuncio to Cambodia and Thailand, Archbishop Peter Wells, urges renewed commitment to aid thousands of people displaced by the border conflict that has strained relations between the two countries.
A papal telegram sent to the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference conveys Pope Leo’s condolences to Ghanaians mourning the deaths of ministers, government officials and civilians who perished in the crash of a military helicopter on 6 August.
Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Holy Mass on Sunday, August 17, with the poor assisted by the Diocese in Albano, a small town in the vicinity of Castel Gandolfo, the location of the Papal Residence in the Alban Hills outside Rome.
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday receives in audience a group of pilgrims from Venice, including three inmates of the city’s Santa Maria Maggiore prison.
