Vatican & World News

- Pope Leo XIV makes a pilgrimage to northern Italy to pray at the tomb of St Augustine and to pay tribute to St Frances Cabrini

- The bishops of Macau and Hong Kong, on their ad limina visit to the Vatican, share their experience of synodality

- In a video message to young people participating in a summer camp in the U.S., the Pope says believers are called to be instruments of His peace

 

-   Pope Leo XIV condemns the instability caused by war which forces Christians to flee their native lands

-   European bishops express concern for tough new EU migration policy

-   The UN Children’s Fund in Lebanon appeals for a real cessation of hostilities as families and children bear the brunt of continued Israeli attacks

-   Pope Leo sends a video message for the Tenth Austrian World Summit - an annual climate conference held in Vienna.

-   The 'Borgo Dialogues', a new international forum for dialogue on environmental topics, are set to be inaugurated in the papal gardens of Castel Gandolfo.

-   A joint declaration signed in Geneva is calling for an end to the use of artificial intelligence in military targeting operations.

-   Pope Leo XIV meets representatives of  the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York and thanks them for their work to help vulnerable people

-   The United States and Iran reach an agreement to end the war

-   The Vatican releases the Pope’s Message for the 6th World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly

 

-   On the 6th and last day of his apostolic visit to Spain, Pope Leo XIV travels to Tenerife and shines the spotlight on the plight of migrants calling for integration and shared responsibility

-   We hear from one of the managers of an emergency shelter in Tenerife about the need to protect and promote the dignity of our brothers and sisters on the move