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Young people attend the festival in Medjugorje

03/08/2020

Pope to Medjugorje youth festival: Jesus gives life its true meaning

Nicaraguan faithful pray before the charred crucifix in Managua's cathedral

02/08/2020

Pope praying for Nicaraguans after destruction of Managua crucifix

2020.08.03 Papa Francesco - VISITA ALLA SCUOLA N.S. REGINA DEGLI ANGELI 25 sett 2015

03/08/2020

US Bishops call for support for urban Catholic school students

Hands in prayer

03/08/2020

Australian Catholic Men’s Gathering to inspire, encourage and challenge

Pope Francis waves to the crowd in St. Peter's Square

02/08/2020

Pope at Angelus: Eucharist provides strength to care for others

Pope Francis prays in the Portiuncula in Assisi on 4 August 2016

02/08/2020

Pope Francis urges everyone to obtain “Pardon of Assisi”

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Saint John Vianney

01/08/2020

Cardinal Parolin to visit Ars and Lourdes in August

The Vatican Secretary of State will pay a visit to Ars on the Feast of St John Vianney, and will celebrate Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption in Lourdes.

Sunbathers crowd a beach near Brouwersdam in The Netherlands

02/08/2020

Europeans struggling with heatwave and coronavirus lockdowns

A priest and a nun pray before the burned crucifix in Managua's cathedral

01/08/2020

Crucifix in Managua cathedral torched in ‘hatred of the Church’

Father Fabio Salerno, newly appointed Secretary to Pope Francis

01/08/2020

Msgr Gaid ends service as Pope Francis's secretary, as Fr Fabio Salerno takes up post

The Director of the Holy See Press Office says a normal turnover of roles, as desired by Pope Francis, is taking place.

Sr Helen Prejean

31/07/2020

‘Dead Man Walking’ nun deplores resumption of US federal executions

Federal executions resume in the US as the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare serious structural inequalities of the American judicial system. Anti-death penalty activist, Sr Helen Prejean, reiterates it is ...

Pope Francis calls human trafficking a scourge

01/08/2020

Pope Francis: Trafficking a scourge against human dignity

Pope Francis sends a message to an online seminar on human trafficking, and calls this form of modern-day slavery a scourge against human dignity.

Multiplication of the loaves and fish

01/08/2020

Gospel Truth: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2 August 2020

02/08/2020

Vatican Museums: Beauty that Unites! 60

2018.10.31 CRISTO GITANO

22/06/2020

The development of doctrine is fidelity in newness

Fr Karol Kulczycki SDS, Bishop-elect of Port Pirie, Australia

01/08/2020

Pope appoints new Bishop to the Diocese of Port Pirie, Australia

Africa

Bishops belonging to SECAM in July 2019

02/08/2020

SECAM Day is an opportunity to pray for the growing Church in Africa

The First Vice President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Bishop Sithembele Sipuka, reflects on the Bishops’ forum’s 51st-anniversary celebration amid the ...

People standing in line to receive food in Johannesburg, South Africa

31/07/2020

Covid-19: The Church in South Africa in service of the vulnerable

SECAM Bishops during the Golden Jubilee celebrations last year

28/07/2020

Bishops of Africa and Madagascar mark annual SECAM Day

Bishop Natale Paganelli, the Apostolic Administrator of Makeni in Sierra Leone

26/07/2020

SIERRA LEONE: Bishop Paganelli appeals for calm following unrest in the city of Makeni that left at least five dead

A Church sponsored project in action to track and prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Zambia

25/07/2020

Zambian Bishops urge faithful to respect anti-Covid precautions

Iranian pharmacists stock shelves at a drugstore in Tehran

03/08/2020

Investigation casts doubt on Iranian Covid death figures

Rapid testing center for COVID-19 outside Hanoi, Vietnam.

03/08/2020

Covid-19 in Asia: the worst is not over

A man dressed as the Grim Reaper warns beachgoers in Mexico to return home

02/08/2020

Covid-19 spike pushes Mexico to third place in infections

Atrium of the EU Council building in Brussels

01/08/2020

Europe's economies plunging into coronavirus recession

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