Vatican & World News

-   Kicking off the third leg of his apostolic journey to Spain in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Pope Leo XIV appeals to the international community to put legislation into place to safeguard the lives and dignity of migrants

-   He encourages the church in the Canary Islands to continue to accompany vulnerable communities

-   We look back at the inauguration on Wednesday night of the tallest bell tower of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia basilica

 

-   Marking an historic first, a Pope, in the person of Leo XIV, addresses members of Spain’s Parliament

-   On the third day of his apostolic journey to Spain, the Pope reminds the country‘s bishops that the Church’s true wealth lies in the holiness of her children

-   We link up with our correspondent on the ground in Madrid for a preview of the next papal events

-   On the second day of his apostolic visit to Spain, Pope Leo XIV celebrates Holy Mass in central Madrid in the presence of over 1.2 million people

-   We hear from our correspondent in Madrid, who spoke to some Spaniards who attended the event

-   At a prayer vigil on Saturday evening, Pope Leo calls on young people to be missionaries of the Gospel to build the future of a better world

-   On the first day of his apostolic visit to Spain, Pope Leo emphasizes that religious freedom and freedom of conscience must be protected

-   On the papal plane, the Pope insists on dialogue to end the war in Ukraine and expresses his closeness to Lebanon

-   A young Spaniard speaks about the organization of the prayer vigil with the Pope in Madrid

 

-   The General Coordinator of Pope Leo’s upcoming journey to Spain says he expects the Pope’s visit to revitalize the church in a rapidly secularising country

-   In his last day in Rome before beginning his trip to Spain, the Pope invites German students to live their faith without placing individual preferences before of church tradition

-   We look ahead to the consistory at the end of June which will see cardinals from all over the world come to Rome for three days of discussions on global conflicts, the implementation of the Synod, and the Pope’s new encyclical Magnifica humanitas.

-   Israel and Lebanon agree to renew their fragile ceasefire and create some security zones inside Lebanon as Gazan civilians continue to die under Israeli attacks

-   Violence erupts in Somalia’s capital amid a constitutional crisis

-   The Catholic Bishops of India welcome and praise Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"