Vatican & World News

-   Pope Leo XIV lunches with some 200 poor and socially vulnerable people in Castel Gandolfo and reaffirms the Church’s wish to express God’s love to every person

-   At a UN High Level Meeting on HIV/Aids the Holy See calls for renewed global commitment to end Aids and appeals that no one be left behind

-   We remember the more than 8,000 victims of Srebrenica on the 31st anniversary of the massacre

-   Pope Leo XIV will have lunch with 200 vulnerable people on Saturday

-   The Catholic Church continues to help those affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela

-   A month after the murder of a Mozambican prelate, the country’s bishops call for hope to prevail

 

- AI experts gathered in Geneva receive encouragement and words of wisdom from the Pope and from Holy See representatives

- 1,600 people are killed, and one and a half million are displaced in Haiti over the past 3 months

- In the aftermath of Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes, the Little Sisters of the Poor establish a field hospital for the injured in La Guaira

 

-   An Archbishop in Cameroon sounds the alarm on forced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and inhumane prison conditions in the country.

-   The Panamanian bishops issue a wide-ranging appeal calling for national reconciliation, respect for human dignity, and reforms to the country's justice system.

-   Two First Nation students from the Dharug people in Australia describe their time in Rome during a week dedicated to Aboriginal cultures.

-   The Pope released his monthly “Pray with the Pope” video for July dedicated "for respect for human life."

-   The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issues a decree excommunicating members of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X after the illicit episcopal ordinations on July 1.

-   The Director of the IOM Coordination Office for the Mediterranean welcomes Pope Leo’s visit on Saturday, reiterating the Pope’s voice is an important moral force in an increasingly polarised debate on migration.