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Vatican Receives 400+ Page Report Detailing Christian Persecution in Nicaragua
Pope Leo XIV recently received a copy of the latest edition of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution committed by the communist regime of dictatorial couple Daniel Ortega and...
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Vatican announces Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Turkey and Lebanon
The Holy See Press Office announced Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon at the end of November 2025. According to a statement, the Pope accepted invitations from both countries’ civil and ecclesiastical authorities. He will...
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Vatican slams 'Israel' for massacre of defenseless Gazans
The Vatican’s top diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, condemned “Israel” for its ongoing massacre in Gaza, urging global action and an end to arms shipments fueling the genocide. The Vatican has strongly denounced "Israel" for targeting defenseless...
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Top Vatican official Cardinal Pietro Parolin sees ‘perverse spiral of hatred’ in Israel-Gaza war
VATICAN CITY — The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago “was inhuman and indefensible,” the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel’s two-year-long war on Gaza has had “disastrous and inhuman consequences.” “It is unacceptable and...
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VATICAN - An academic event at the Urbaniana University on the "Concilium Sinense" and the present of the Church in China
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "One Hundred Years since the Council of China: Between History and Present." This is the title of the academic event that will mark the beginning of the academic year of the Pontifical Urbaniana University on Friday, October...
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In first ‘motu proprio’ Pope Leo sets new norms regulating Vatican investments
Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic letter issued “motu proprio” creates new standards for Vatican investments and repeals a 2022 rescript from Pope Francis related to the administration and management of the Holy See’s financial activities, according...
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Top Vatican official prays for end to ‘perverse spiral of hatred’ in Israel-Gaza war
Cardinal Pietro Parolin (Vatican News) The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago “was inhuman and indefensible”, the Vatican Secretary of State said this week, and Israel’s two-year-long war on Gaza has had “disastrous and inhuman consequences”....
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Pope Leo reforms controversial Vatican bank rules established by Francis
News The motu proprio overturns Francis-era provisions that required the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) to operate exclusively through the Vatican bank. VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — On September 29 Pope Leo XIV signed...
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Joshua Zirkzee wants out of Man United - full details revealed, how club can fill black hole in finances with Saudi tour jackpot and another new goalkeeper on the Red Devils' radar: MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL
Joshua Zirkzee's frustration with his current situation at Manchester United has reached a point where he is looking for an exit route in January. Zirkzee was an unused substitute in the 2-0 win over Sunderland on Saturday, the fourth time in...
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Pope Leo XIV to visit war zone in first trip outside Vatican City
09:11 ET, 07 Oct 2025 For his first foreign trip as pope, Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon — a pilgrimage that will be symbolic to both Christians and Muslims(Image: Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) Pope Leo XIV...
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Vatican Secretary of State marks Oct. 7 anniversary, decries ‘spiral of hatred and violence’ in Gaza
The Holy See’s official news outlet marked the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and the beginning of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza with an interview in which Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin decried the terrorist...
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Gaza war starts Year 3: ‘We need to recover a sense of reason’
The Pope's secretary of state spoke at length about the situation in Gaza on this 2nd anniversary of the October 7 attack. US bishops express hope: "Pray ardently" The Pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said the situation in Gaza...
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Vatican’s top diplomat says Israel carrying out ‘massacre’ in Gaza
The Vatican’s top diplomat sharply criticized Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza in comments published on Monday — one of the Catholic Church’s strongest condemnations of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group. In an interview tied to the...
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Keep Pope Leo away from Left-leaning justice-fixated, equality-seeking political activists and their dicasteries
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The Vatican PR team have been the source of great excitement of late. Sometime ago, probably long before Pope Francis died, the decision was taken to host a climate justice event. It was meant to challenge climate sceptics. It came from Greenland,...
Vatican, Other Catholic Libraries Turn to AI, Robotics to Digitize Collections
Since then, the Alexandria Digitization Hub’s workload has grown. Longbeard is currently working to digitize the historic collections of the Salesian Pontifical University and the Pontifical Gregorian University and plans to work with the...
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Pope reexamines financial reforms
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo abrogated the 2022 law that had...
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Pope Leo trims powers of Vatican bank
[Source: Reuters] Pope Leo cancelled the Vatican bank’s sole authority over investments held by the city-state, rolling back one of the financial reforms of his predecessor Francis. In a short decree, Leo said the Vatican bank, known officially as...
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Vatican and Other Catholic Libraries Turn to AI and Robotics to Digitize Collections
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Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican Library and other Catholic institutions in Rome...
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Pope Leo loosens Vatican financial reins
Vatican City, Holy See—Pope Leo XIV on Monday loosened the Vatican’s rules on financial investments, rolling back a reform introduced by his predecessor Francis. In a “Motu Proprio”, or legal change, the US pope repealed Francis’s 2022 order that...
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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The...