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Pope Francis and other religious leaders during an Ecumenical Prayer for Peace event in Bari

15/01/2021

Christians invited to join virtually in prayer for 54th Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Pope Francis and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI

14/01/2021

Pope Francis and the Pope emeritus receive Covid-19 vaccine

Rescuers pulling a survivor out of the rubble of a collapsed building in West Sulawesi following a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on 15 January 2021

15/01/2021

Indonesia earthquake: at least 34 dead, hundreds injured

Barbara Jatta, Director of the Vatican Museums

14/01/2021

Vatican Museums looking towards reopening in February

Health workers march while going on an indefinite strike as they demand a better national health budget and access to vaccines, in Lima, Peru

14/01/2021

CELAM: Universal access to covid-19 vaccine priority in Latin America

A migrant tries to warm himself at the Lipa camp in Bihac, Boznia and Herzegovina, 1 January 2021

14/01/2021

Cardinal Czerny: 'Fratelli tutti' shows path for proper treatment of migrants

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Archbishop Joseph Arshad of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan (photo: Youtube Ave Maria Catholic TV)

14/01/2021

Pakistan Church declares 2021 as Year of St. Joseph

In the footsteps of Pope Francis, the president of the Pakistani Bishops’ Conference has announced that the Church in Pakistan would observe the current year as the Year of St. ...

The Mater Ecclesia Monastery, Benedict XVI's residence in the Vatican

14/01/2021

Benedict XVI, the pandemic, first Christmas without his brother

14/01/2021

Archbishop of Glasgow dies age 70

Pope Pius XII meets with a group of Jews who survived the Nazi concentration camps

13/01/2021

The list of Pius XII

In a new book, Johan Ickx, head of the Historical Archives of the Section for Relations with States of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, reconstructs the events involving Pope ...

Shrine set up at mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Ireland

13/01/2021

Abp of Tuam: Mother and Baby Report a cause for shame

The Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland, Michael Neary, calls the contents of the Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes “a cause for shame” and adds, “when a Church is not ...

File photo of Cardinal Eusébio Oscar Scheid

14/01/2021

Pope sends condolences on the death of Brazilian Cardinal Scheid

Pope Francis sends a telegramme of condolence on the death of Cardinal Eusebio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop emeritus of the Metropolitan See of San Sebastian, of Rio de Janerio, Brazil.