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Pope Francis speaks to the Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

21/11/2024

Pope: Failure of education is cultural genocide that robs children of their future

A book stored in the Vatican Apostolic Archives (file photo)

21/11/2024

The Church studies her history to better live the faith today

Pope Francis with some members of the delegation of the Casa Editrice "La Scuola"

21/11/2024

Pope: 'Key to education is good school-family collaboration'

Pope Francis meets with children at the Wednesday General Audience

20/11/2024

Pope creates new Pontifical Committee for World Day of Children

During his General Audience on November 20, Pope Francis took a photo with children from the Community of Sant'Egidio.

20/11/2024

Pope announces Vatican summit in 2025 for rights of children

Pope Francis speaks at the General Audience

20/11/2024

'Remember our love': Pope reads aloud letter from Ukrainian student

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Cardinal-elect Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, president of Caritas Internationalis. Photo:

21/11/2024

Cardinal-elect Kikuchi: Migrants and dialogue are Japan’s path to stability

Cardinal-elect Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, Archbishop of Tokyo, has emphasized the importance of dialogue for global and local stability.

Celia Veloso, mother of overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso, who has been on death row for 12 years in Indonesia over drug-related charges, join a candlelit demonstration to call for the freedom of her daughter in this file photo taken on September 13, 2016. Photo:

21/11/2024

Catholic Bishop hopeful for transfer of Mary Jane Veloso to Philippine custody

The Coloseum in Rome illuminated in red for Red Wednesday

19/11/2024

Red Wednesday turns monuments red to honour persecuted Christians

Prominent buildings in several cities across the world will turn red on 20 November to mark Red Wednesday, Aid to the Church in Need’s annual campaign for persecuted Christians.

2024.11.20 Zelenska in visita al Bambino Gesù

20/11/2024

Ukraine‘s First Lady meets Pope and visits patients at Vatican Children's Hospital

The wife of the Ukrainian President is in Rome, meeting Italian authorities and government officials as her country marks 1,000 tragic days of war. On Wednesday she was received by Pope Francis, she ...

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19/11/2024

Romea Strata: A new tradition of spiritual hospitality to pilgrims of hope

In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year, the Fabric of Saint Peter is set to launch the 'Romea Strata' guide and the Testimonium certificate, offering pilgrims a deep spiritual ...

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Solidarity to visit to Mozambique by the SACBC and SACC delegation led by Bishop Sipuka

20/11/2024

Southern African Catholic Bishops’ solidarity visit emphasised Church’s call for dialogue in Mozambique

The president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) says the recently concluded solidarity visit to Mozambique emphasised the church’s call for dialogue in the Southern African ...

Bishop of Sunyani and Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference President, Bishop Mathew Gyamfi

19/11/2024

Bishops of Ghana urge renewal of faith, environmental action in end-of-plenary message

Nigerian Conference of Women Religious Against Human Trafficking (NCWRAHT)

17/11/2024

Nigerian women religious against human trafficking meet to re-think and strategise partnerships

Kenyan Bishops at at Press Conference in Nairobi

15/11/2024

Kenyan Bishops call for integrity and justice amidst political turmoil

Choir at the celebration of the memory of Bishop Heinrich Veiter

15/11/2024

Cameroon: Celebrating the memory and legacy of Bishop Heinrich Veiter

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2024.04.15 World Children's Day

20/11/2024

World Children’s Day celebrates ‘every child with every right’

Makeshift toilets are pictured at a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in Gaza

19/11/2024

World Toilet Day: Over 3 billion people lack safe sanitation

Haitians displaced by gang violence take shelter in refugee camp, in Port-au-Prince

19/11/2024

Bishop Dumas urges Haitians to be protagonists of their country's future

Rescuers carry the body of a person killed in an Israeli strike in Central Gaza

18/11/2024

No let up in Gaza carnage, 76 killed over the weekend

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2024.04.11 Il braccio della memoria ap

14/05/2024

Vatican Museums: Laocoön and 'the Arm of Memory'

2024.06.25 San Paolo fuori le mura Giubileo

02/07/2024

The tomb of St Paul: A persecutor who became an Apostle and martyr

Dome of St. Peter's Basilica

24/10/2023

"Work with Us": Website to apply for a job at the Vatican

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Giulietta Masina in the role of Gelsomina in Fellini's 1954 masterpiece

02/05/2024

Pope Francis celebrates 70th anniversary of Fellini’s "La Strada"

Fr Manuel Barrios Prieto

12/09/2023

COMECE General Secretary says SoHO legislation threatens dignity of life

12/09/2023

EU Bishops 'concerned' over European rules on ‘substances of human origin’

Sister Josefina Albuquerque

05/09/2023

Enterprising Catholic nun connects to youth through filmmaking

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