Vatican & World News

-   Students of the Sapienza University of Rome are preparing to welcome Pope Leo on Thursday.

-   Over 200 Ethiopians are reportedly at risk of being executed in Saudi Arabia.

-   A look-back on the day, forty-five years ago, when Pope John Paul II was attacked in St. Peter’s Square.

-   Pope Leo calls religions to work together toward peace and warns against instrumentalising God for military, economic or political gain

-   The Pope also appeals for renewed commitment to peace and development in the Sahel region

-   Negotiations for an agreement between the U.S and Iran are at a standstill as both sides claim continuing clashes and violations in the Straight of Hormuz

-   Pope Leo begins his series of pastoral visits around Italy with a visit to Pompei and Naples

-   On the first anniversary of the Pope’s election, we reflect on his appeals for peace and his dedication to the Second Vatican Council

-   We speak to the President of St Jerome’s University in Ontario, Canada, which has just opened the world’s first Pope Francis Institute, about the continuity between the late Pope and his successor Leo XIV  

-   The Holy See releases the schedule for Pope Leo XIV’s next international apostolic journey that will take him to Spain in June

-   Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue to wreak death and devastation

-   At the weekly General Audience, Pope Leo says the Church has a mission to speak out against all that mortifies life

-   The southern Italian city of Pompeii is preparing to welcome the Pope on Friday

-   The U.S. military says it is escorting stranded cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz

-   Father Paolo Benanti, an expert on artificial intelligence, talks about the Church and Pope Leo’s contribution to this topic

-   Pope says care for the poor is an integral part of Christian life in a meeting with Catholic Charities USA

-   A Palestinian Christian activist speaks about the escalating violence in the West Bank

-   Church leaders in Mozambique condemn a new wave of violence after the destruction of a Catholic mission