PAPIRI, Nigeria — Hundreds of parents whose children were abducted last week at a Catholic school in north-central Niger gathered Friday at the school site to plead with the government for their children’s rescue. More…
ISTANBUL – Pope Leo XIV and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople issued a joint call for peace Saturday, condemning violence and urging faithful to work for a better world. “The goal of Christian unity…
The Advent season begins this Sunday, and that means The Sound of Music will soon be on television in the United States. The ABC network airs the film classic starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer…
Vatican Media.Pope Leo XIV visits the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 29, 2025. One of the Pope’s hosts for the visit, muezzin Aşgın Musa Tunca, told reporters afterwards that he had told…
ISTANBUL – Speaking to Turkey’s small Catholic minority during Mass on Saturday afternoon, Pope Leo XIV stressed the need to work for peace and unity in such an ethnically and culturally diverse region. During his …
St. Sharbel’s remains draw pilgrims from around the world to the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon. Many Catholic churches in the United States offer monthly St. Sharbel healing Masses.
Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church leaders met 1,700 years ago under the auspices of the Roman Emperor…
IZNIK – During a visit to Iznik on Friday, Pope Leo issued a call for Christian unity and fraternity in a world rife with war and condemned fundamentalist attitudes and the use of religion to…
Nadia Howlader is given a key to a new apartment by Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 16 on the ninth World Day of the Poor. As part of the Jubilee Year of Hope, Pope Leo…
Workers erect the Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 As an 88-foot spruce arrives in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican workers assemble a nativity honoring St. Alphonsus Liguori and…