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Pope Francis to visit Trieste for Italian Catholic Social Week
Posted on 05/3/2024 08:18 AM ()
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Trieste on July 7 to take part in the Italian Catholic Social Week, where he will meet with migrants and people on the margins of society.
After Rome meeting, parish priests head home as ‘missionaries of synodality'
Posted on 05/3/2024 08:02 AM ()
Vatican News speaks to three of the 300 clergymen who gathered in Rome this week for a conference entitled 'Parish Priests for the Synod'.
St. Peter’s Square to host photographic exhibition "Changes”
Posted on 05/3/2024 07:44 AM ()
The famous Bernini's Colonnade embracing St. Peter’s Basilica will be home to the exhibition presenting a photographic interpretation of Saint Francis’ "Song of Creatures" raise awareness on the dramatic effects of human-made climate change on God’s Creation.
Türkiye suspends all trade with Israel over Gaza war
Posted on 05/3/2024 05:02 AM ()
As the war in the Holy Land continues to cause great suffering, Türkiye has suspended all trade with Israel over its operation in Gaza.
Pope: 'All young people deserve equal job opportunities'
Posted on 05/3/2024 04:14 AM ()
Meeting with the National Vocational Training Confederation (CONFAP), Pope Francis encourages the Italian Catholic network to focus its attention on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are marginalized by the job market and feel rejected by society.
Pope: Education must form people, not offer impossible ideals
Posted on 05/3/2024 02:45 AM ()
Pope Francis meets with members of the Blanquerna Foundation from Barcelona, and urges Catholic universities to provide education that helps people form their minds and hearts, without seeking to create “illusory replicas of impossible ideals.”
News from the Orient – May 3, 2024
Posted on 05/3/2024 01:00 AM ()
In this week's news from the Eastern Churches, produced in collaboration with L'Œuvre d'Orient, Christians following the Julian calendar celebrate Palm Sunday, Cardinal Louis Sako marks his priestly jubilee, and St. Joseph Universiry in Beirut nears its 150th anniversary.
CAFOD appeals for emergency aid for Sudan
Posted on 05/2/2024 07:23 AM ()
Fighting between the army and a paramilitary force that erupted in war over a year ago has plunged Sudan into what observers warn could be the world’s worst hunger and displacement crisis.
Pope receives the King of Jordan
Posted on 05/2/2024 06:47 AM ()
Pope Francis meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Vatican on Thursday, whom Pope Francis has known since the start of his pontificate.
Ten unpublished shots of Padre Pio now available to all
Posted on 05/2/2024 06:41 AM ()
"Photographs of Saint Pio - Memories of a Saint" is an initiative of the Saint Pio Foundation, which has selected some photographs of the saint taken by his photographer, Elia Stelluto, and made them available to believers for free. The initiative marks the 25th anniversary of the beatification of the Saint of Pietrelcina and the 10th anniversary of the Foundation.