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Pope Francis meets with members of the International Movement of Catholic Students—Pax Romana, and calls on them to always draw closer to the Lord Jesus, so that His grace may ...
As all Christians prepare to celebrate Easter together in 2025, Pope Francis recalls that the preeminent Christian celebration belongs to Christ and not to our earthly calendars or ...
The pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, explains the importance of hope in the upcoming Jubilee Year and how indulgence is God's ...
The president of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA), Sr. Rosalia Sakayombo, a Zambian Sister of the Holy Spirit, has challenged Catholic ...
The Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization issues a clarifying note regarding the 2025 Jubilee, specifying that Holy Doors will only be open at the four Papal Basilicas in Rome and ...
Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the Catholic Conference of Bishops of India, releases the first four volumes of the series, “Guidance of Prayer for the Holy Year 2025,” ...
Christian and Muslim African religious leaders address a joint statement to the G20, G7, United Nations, IMF and World Bank calling for debt relief for Africa in view of the 2025 ...
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major on the Esquiline Hill preserves the relics of the manger of Bethlehem. It is also the place in Rome most visited by Pope Francis: the ancient icon ...
Excavation work right in front of Vatican Radio’s main entrance continues with the dismantling of imperial-era fullonicas (ancient laundries), recently discovered during ...
Malawi’s religious women will host golden celebrations of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) from 19 August to 24 August 2024 in Lilongwe, ...
The Nazareth Formation Centre in Beira (Central Mozambique) recently hosted the XXVIII Theological Week, with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope” in light of Pope Francis’s call for the ...
In remarks to a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Pope Francis expresses his hopes of travelling to Türkiye in 2025 to celebrate the 1,700th ...
For a long time, the whereabouts of the Apostle's ancient burial place had been lost. Then, with the excavations, encouraged first by Pope Pius XII and then by Paul VI, his tomb ...
Fr Roman Ostrovskyy, Vice-Rector of the Greek Catholic seminary in Kyiv, expresses the sense of downtroddenness felt by Ukrainians in this third year of the conflict in their ...
As we prepare to live and celebrate the 2025 Jubilee Year, Vatican Media presents a 16-episode series of podcasts entitled “From Tourist to Pilgrim” featuring art historian Liz ...
Pope Francis addresses the Mayor of Rome and the city administration as it prepares to host the 2025 Jubilee. Highlighting how the Jubilee spirit is one of inclusion of the last in ...
Speaking to participants in a Vatican conference on debt in the Global South, Pope Francis says that the upcoming Jubilee Year is an opportunity to cancel or reduce debt owed by ...
As the Apostolic Administration of Estonia prepares to celebrate its centenary this year, Bishop Philippe Jourdan recalls the challenges his flock endured over several decades of ...
Pope Francis meets with some 80 boys and girls of a Rome parish who are preparing to celebrate the Jubilee Year and chats with them about their life of faith and prayer.
The International Congress on Youth Ministry, organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, is taking place near Rome at a crossroads between World Youth Day in ...
The Conference of Religious Major Superiors in Cote d'Ivoire (CSM-CI) recently inaugurated the start of preparations for the Jubilee Year 2025 celebrations for consecrated persons ...
Following the solemn indiction of the Jubilee 2025 by Pope Francis last week, the Apostolic Penitentiary has published a Decree that provides the details for the Indulgences that ...
Pope Francis calls Christians to be builders of hope as he celebrates Vespers after presiding at the ceremony to officially proclaim the Jubilee of 2025.
At a ceremony in St Peter’s Basilica on Ascension Thursday, Pope Francis solemnly proclaims the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025, consigning the Bull of Indiction – “Spes non confundit. ...
The 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.
Pope Francis releases his message for the 61st World Day of Prayer for Vocations, celebrated on April 21, and urges Christians to welcome our shared vocation to sow the seeds of ...
Addressing members of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Pope Francis reflects on the 2025 Jubilee of Hope and calls for a new approach to evangelization and the promotion a ...
Over 3,000 employees from the six campuses of the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital, together with patients and their families, are set to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its ...
The four Papal Basilicas and the Dicastery for Communication team up to launch a new minisite to serve as a spiritual and artistic guide to the Basilicas and help the faithful turn ...
The Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization releases “Teach Us To Pray", a guide book on prayer for Christians, as the Church prepares to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee.
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris presents several initiatives for the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on December 8, 2024, including an inaugural triduum and an octave ...
Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the World Day for Consecrated Life highlighting the importance of perseverance and asking for the courage to make room for God’s action.
The Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life speaks to Vatican News about the upcoming meeting in Rome gathering consecrated ...
As the Year of Prayer gets underway, the Prefect and Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Evangelisation explain its purpose as helping Catholics prepare for the 2025 Jubilee, ...
At the Angelus, Pope Francis announces a “Year of Prayer” ahead of the upcoming Jubilee, and invites the faithful to pray for Christian unity and for peace throughout the world. ...
The Catholic Diocese of Sunyani in the Bono Region of Ghana over the weekend celebrated three anniversaries: centenary anniversaries of Catholicism in the area, the Golden Jubilee ...
Bishop Paolo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, presides over Mass for the opening of the Holy Door at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Abu Dhabi, as part of the Jubilee ...
The Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, Bishop Aldo Berardi, celebrates Mass in Awali, Bahrain, and opened the Holy Door for the Jubilee celebrating the 1,500th anniversary of the ...
Zambia’s Mongu Diocese Bishop, Evans Chinyama Chiyemba OMI, has said the diocesan celebration held over the weekend was a great moment of joy and grace for the local Church.
In view of the Jubilee of 2025, Pope Francis decides to create a working group at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to draw up a catalogue of all Christians - not only ...
Pope Francis sends a message of greetings to the Rome-based daily newspaper, Il Messaggero, as it marks 145 years since its establishment. In it, he looks ahead to the 2025 Jubilee ...
As preparations continue for the Holy Year, the Dicastery for Evangelization presents the official Jubilee Calendar, website and app and announces the winner of the Competition for ...
The meeting between delegations led by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni highlighted the need for future discussions on the ...
The Mayor of Rome is received in audience by Pope Francis to illustrate and explain the government’s decree regarding architectural and organizational interventions in view of the ...
The Dicastery for Evangelization invites entries for the Hymn for the Holy Year 2025, encouraging interested persons to set to music a provided text which expresses the essence of ...
On the Solemnity of the Assumption, the Dominican Church closes the Altagracia Virgin Jubilee celebrations. Joining the closing event on August 15 will be Pope Francis Special ...
Pope Francis sends a message to the people of the Dominican Republic, as they prepare to mark the Altagracian jubilee year, and urges each person to entrust themselves to the care ...
The Vatican reveals the official Logo of the upcoming Jubilee Year due to be held in 2025 on the theme 'Pilgrims of Hope' and reflects on some of the Holy Year's early initiatives ...
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica, details the preparations underway in the Basilica and reorganization of its offices in view of the 2025 Jubilee. ...
The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization launches a competition open to all, for the creation of the Official Logo for the Jubilee 2025. The contest begins on ...
The Holy See Press Office announces today that Pope Francis has entrusted Holy Year 2025 preparations to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.
The year-long bicentennial celebrations, which kicked off on 13 December 2020, concluded on Saturday with simultaneous Masses in the 32 parish churches of Singapore.
The Vatican Secretary of State presides over the closing celebration of the Lauretan Jubilee in Loreto on Friday, and calls on the faithful to learn from the humble example of Mary ...
As the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences holds a golden jubilee celebration in Rome, English Cardinal Vincent Nichols explains the organization's mission and how it can help ...
In memory of Saint Norbert, Pope Francis writes a letter to Abbot Wouters on the occasion of the Jubilee proclaimed to mark 900 years since the foundation of the abbey of ...
The Council of Bishops Conferences of Europe celebrates its 50th anniversary with a message from the Presidency, promoting dialogue between religions and addressing the challenges ...
Catholicism in the Philippines is believed to have arrived in 1521 when renowned Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first set foot in what is now Cebu province.
The theme for the bicentenary celebrations, “Ignite and Shine with Faith”, invites all Catholics to join hands in forming a more vibrant, evangelizing and missionary Church.
Archbishop Fabio dal Cin, Pontifical Delegate to the Shine at Loreto announces that Pope Francis is extending the Lauretan Jubilee to December 2021. In his words, he thanks the ...
Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urges that in the current Covid-19 crisis that is wreaking havoc on economies worldwide, rich countries write off the debt of poor countries. ...
Pope Francis sends a letter to the Catholic Church in Costa Rica at the outset of a jubilee year leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Central American nation’s dioceses.
Mass is celebrated on Friday at the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto, Italy for the solemn proclamation of the Lauretan Jubilee. The Holy Year will begin on December 8 and end ...
Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has addressed the more than 400 Cardinals, Bishops, Vatican delegates, priests, the religious and laypersons gathered in Kampala, Uganda ...
All is set for the Catholic Bishops of Africa’s 18th Plenary Assembly and Golden Jubilee under the umbrella association of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and ...
From the 8th December 2018 to 8th December 2019, Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Queen of Africa, the two Missionary Institutes of the Society of the Missionaries of ...
Thousands of Tanzanian Catholics joined by that country’s President, John Magufuli and other dignitaries, on Sunday celebrated 150 years of evangelisation at Bagamoyo, a coastal ...