International
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Harmonies of faith: a cultural journey within the Jubilee of Hope
By Admin Webmaster 4/4/2024 8:24:25 PMThe Dicastery for Evangelization presents a host of cultural initiatives that will accompany the faithful as they prepare to welcome and celebrate the 2025 Jubilee Year.
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Pope Francis: A priest's primary obligation is to keep love alive
By Admin Webmaster 4/4/2024 8:02:01 PMSpeaking with members of the Pontifical Latin-American, Brazilian, and Mexican Colleges, Pope Francis reflects on love, calling it “a central theme in the life of priests.”
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Telling Our Resurrection Stories: Victory over pain, tears and death
By Admin Webmaster 4/3/2024 8:21:30 PMThe Christian celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead at Easter is for us a victory beyond human imagination. Jesus, the Son of God and rejected Messiah, had suffered the humiliation, pain and shame of the crucifixion and death on the cross. On the third day he rose from death as a sign of God’s power and triumph of evil, darkness and death.
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Pope at Audience: The righteous and upright will find happiness
By Admin Webmaster 4/3/2024 8:17:29 PMDuring his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis examines the second cardinal virtue of justice, noting that being righteous leads us toward God, and that justice is fundamental for peaceful coexistence in society.
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Pope prays for people slain in war, recalls Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr
By Admin Webmaster 4/3/2024 8:05:52 PMPope Francis recalls a slain Ukrainian soldier, 23-year-old Oleksandr, who was killed in the fighting in Avdiivka, as the Pope held the late soldier's rosary and Gospel.
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Pope Francis renews appeal for ceasefire in Gaza
By Admin Webmaster 4/3/2024 7:58:54 PMPope Francis makes his latest plea for a ceasefire in Gaza, and appeals for "tireless efforts" to end the Israel-Hamas war, lamenting the suffering of the civilian population.
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Easter under the bombs in Zaporizhzhia
By Admin Webmaster 4/3/2024 9:50:50 AMWe speak to the Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Visvaldas Kulbokas, who spent Easter in Ukraine under heavy Russian bombardment.
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Pope Francis remembers Benedict XVI in new book: 'He was like a father to me'
By Admin Webmaster 4/2/2024 7:52:14 PMIn a new book interview, Pope Francis discusses his relationship with his predecessor Benedict XVI: 'He always defended me, he never interfered'.
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Holy See: Strengthened measures against crimes against humanity required
By Admin Webmaster 4/2/2024 7:39:43 PMThe Holy See's Permanent Observer at the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, calls for more effective international measures to combat crimes against humanity, emphasising the importance of human dignity and prevention efforts.
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Kannada becomes 53rd language of Vatican Media
By Admin Webmaster 4/2/2024 7:47:18 PMVatican Radio – Vatican News adds Kannada as the 53rd language in which we provide coverage of Papal, Vatican, and Church news, offering the Gospel Proclamation in the mother-tongue of 35 million Indians.
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Pope at Regina Coeli: Lord's Resurrection brings immense joy, transforms our lives
By Admin Webmaster 4/1/2024 10:56:28 PMOn Easter Monday, Pope Francis prays the Regina Coeli prayer, and reassures the faithful in St Peter’s Square and following from elsewhere that with Christ's Resurrection, our lives have changed forever and completely, and we are to be His joyful witnesses.
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Pope prays for Easter peace to fill places torn by war
By Admin Webmaster 4/1/2024 10:52:32 PMPope Francis invites Christians to pray for the peace of Christ to renew nations torn by war and violence, as he prays the Regina Coeli on Easter Monday.
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Pope Francis presides at Mass on Easter Sunday
By Admin Webmaster 3/31/2024 10:39:58 PMPope Francis presides at Mass During the Day on Easter Sunday in St. Peter's Square with tens of thousands of the faithful to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord.
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Pope Francis at Easter Urbi et Orbi: Christ is risen! All begins anew!
By Admin Webmaster 3/31/2024 10:45:08 PMFollowing the Easter Sunday Mass, Pope Francis delivers his Easter message and blessing "To the City and the World," praying especially for the Holy Land, Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, Lebanon, and Africa, as well as for victims of human trafficking, unborn children, and all experiencing hard times.
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Pope at Easter Vigil: ‘With Jesus no tomb will suppress the joy of life’
By Admin Webmaster 3/31/2024 5:48:48 AMAt the Vigil Mass in the Holy Night of Easter in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis invites us to “look up” to Jesus, the God of life, and reminds us that by welcoming Him no failure will doom us to despair.
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Resurrection begins again in Gaza
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2024 11:10:36 PMAs Christ’s Resurrection at Easter dawns in the Holy Land, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, reflects on the hope for peace that lies hidden in the Calvary of Gaza.
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Custos of the Holy Land: 'Christ's empty tomb brings forth hope'
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2024 11:23:50 PMIn his Easter message to the faithful, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, OFM, reassures that Jesus Christ's empty tomb "brings forth hope," and suggests all suffering can be comforted by the Lord's Resurrection.
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Pope presides at Solemn Liturgy of Lord’s Passion on Good Friday
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2024 6:25:24 AMAs Pope Francis presides at the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the Preacher of the Pontifical Household, preaches on the passage “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I Am”.
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Pope prays Way of the Cross from Casa Santa Marta
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2024 6:21:02 AMPope Francis follows the Way of the Cross held at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday from his residence at the Casa Santa Marta, while still leading the faithful in reflecting on our Christian journey of prayer.
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Angola – Luanda’s Archbishop marks Holy Week with visit to central prison and other institutions
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2024 11:39:31 PMArchbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, of the Archdiocese of Luanda, has visited inmates at Luanda’s Central Prison to share the message of hope in Holy Week. The Archbishop also visited one of the country’s Reception Centres for Children in Distress
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South Sudan's Bishop Carlassare: An Easter of liberation and life
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2024 11:33:16 PMBishop Christian Carlassare, bishop of the Diocese of Rumbek, sends an Easter message to the faithful of South Sudan, encouraging Christians to look to Christ to find the will to embrace one another in friendship.
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Celebrating Easter in Mongolia: The modest joy of a people
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2024 11:10:46 PMCardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, shares the rituals and traditions of the small Catholic community of Mongolia, saying they gather during the Triduum to share their Christian joy in a modest manner.
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Pope Francis releases meditations ahead of Via Crucis at Colosseum
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2024 11:02:17 PMPope Francis publishes his reflections for the Good Friday Stations of the Cross, saying that "with God, suffering never has the final word."
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Pope on Holy Thursday: 'The Lord never tires of forgiving'
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2024 8:31:49 AMAt the Mass of the Lord's Supper at the women's section of Rebibbia prison in Rome, Pope Francis reminds us to never tire of asking the Lord for forgiveness and learning to serve as He did.
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Pope at Chrism Mass: Dear priests, let sorrow sanctify you
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 11:34:41 PMDuring Chrism Mass in the Vatican on Holy Thursday, Pope Francis thanks priests for heroic witness, but urges them to transform shortcomings, errors, and hardened hearts into an opportunity to draw closer to Christ and start anew.
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South Korean Archbishop: ‘At Easter, our lives intertwine with the Eternal’
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 11:28:30 PMIn an Easter message, Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-Taick reminds the faithful of his Archdiocese of Seoul “that our mortal existence transcends the temporal boundaries of this world and is connected to eternal life.”
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Pope Francis: Jesus of Nazareth has shown us His face
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 11:23:21 PMIn a message to the Church in Sonsonate, El Salvador, Pope Francis encourages the devotees of a famous image of Jesus of Nazareth to contemplate the face of God.
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Word of God among the cardboard: Easter journey of the poor at St. Peter's
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 10:06:48 AMA community of Claretian Sisters in Rome organize a penitential service to help homeless people living near the Vatican to prepare for Easter, combining spirituality with tangible charity to meet their needs.
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Pope embraces bereaved Palestinian and Israeli fathers who found friendship amid war
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 9:53:39 AMPope Francis shares an embrace with an Israeli and a Palestinian, each of whom lost a daughter, saying the two men "look beyond the enmity of war" and are now friends.
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Pope to Catholics in Holy Land: May hope arise from seeds sown in pain
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 9:40:03 AMIn an Easter Letter addressed to Catholics in the Holy Land, Pope Francis expresses his spiritual closeness and paternal affection, and encourages Christians around the world to offer concrete support and prayers for peace.