(ZENIT News / Lima, 09.09.2026).- Peru is preparing to spend 63.2 million soles—about $18 million—to welcome Pope Leo XIV in November, as the country mobilizes both public resources and a nationwide Catholic fundraising campaign for…
Julio Tudela / Ester Bosch (ZENIT News – Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia / Valencia, 09.09.2026).- The Netherlands has recorded the first case of euthanasia performed on a child between the ages…
(ZENIT News / Warsaw, 09.09.2026).- Poland’s Catholic bishops have opened the new academic year with strong warnings on two fronts that, at first sight, may appear unrelated: the commercialization of human reproduction and the shrinking space…
Giorgio Bernardelli (ZENIT News – Asia News / Jerusalem, 09.09.2026).- The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, started a project September 7 in the Holy City by officially launching Within Your Gates, a forum that aims to…
(ZENIT News – Caffe Storia / Rome, 09.09.2026).- In 2021, I wrote in these pages about a wall that continued to cut across Germany: the one between the East t and West that was never…
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday appointed a coadjutor bishop for the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao, the third bishop nomination for the island of Puerto Rico in under three months. Father Gerardo Antonio Vargas Cruz, OFM, as…
Pope Leo XIV speaks on Sept. 6, 2026, during the weekly Angelus prayer he leads from a window of the apostolic palace. A coadjutor bishop serves alongside the current diocesan bishop and succeeds him after…
The bilateral agreement, first signed in 2018, governs the selection and recognition of Catholic bishops in China. Archbishop Andrew Ding Yang’s episcopal ordination is the eighth held during Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, though not all…
The European Union, German, and Saxony-Anhalt flags fly outside the state Parliament in Magdeburg, Germany, in an undated photo. Bishop Gerhard Feige called for respect for human dignity as Cardinal Gerhard Müller said bishops should…
ABUJA, Nigeria — Technology can help humanity transform the resources provided by God into practical benefits for people and communities across the African continent, the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome said.…