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June 27, 2025 Vatican & World News 27.06.2025
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June 26, 2025 Vatican & World News 26.06.2025
In the headlines this Thursday the 26th of June:
- On World Day Against Drug Abuse Pope Leo XIV calls drug use "an invisibile prison" and urges compassion,
- The Pope also meets with representatives of aid agencies for the Oriental Churches,
and
- We hear from one of 32 deacons set to be ordained by the Pope in St Peter's Square.

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June 25, 2025 Vatican & World News 25.06.2025
-   A fragile ceasefire continues to hold between Iran and Israel.
-   The Pope expresses his solidarity with Christians in the Middle East following the bombing on Sunday.
-   71 refugees arrive in Rome through the UN Refugee Service and the Community of Sant’Egidio.

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June 24, 2025 Vatican & World News 24.06.2025
In the headlines, this Tuesday, June 24th:
- Pope Leo XIV invites seminarians to be passionate about priestly life
- He thanks the Order of Malta for witnessing God's love
- The Holy Father decries the attack on a Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus
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June 23, 2025 Vatican & World News 23.06.2025
- At least twenty people were killed during a terrorist bombing of a church in Damascus
- Iran threatens a “decisive response” after the United States bombed its nuclear facilities on Sunday
- Pope Leo celebrates Mass for Corpus Christi and leads a Eucharistic Procession through the streets of Rome
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June 22, 2025 Vatican & World News 22.06.2025
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June 21, 2025 Vatican & World News 21.06.2025
- During the Jubilee of Governments, Pope Leo XIV greets legislators from various nations, reminding them that politics has rightly been defined as the highest form of charity
- A Vatican-led initiative aims to address the burden of debt in developing nations
- US Bishops inaugurate their annual Religious Freedom Week
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June 20, 2025 Vatican & World News 20.06.2025
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June 19, 2025 Vatican & World News 19.06.2025
- Pope Leo pays visit to the Vatican’s shortwave transmission centre at Santa Maria di Galeria
- Iranian missiles, launched in retaliation for attacks on its nuclear program, strike targets in Israel
- Russia continues to launch devastating attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, including in Kyiv
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June 18, 2025 Vatican & World News 18.06.2025
-   As humanity teeters on the brink of widening armed confrontation, Pope Leo reminds world leaders that war is always a defeat
-   Amid a deteriorating situation in the Middle East, Caritas Jerusalem continues to provide aid and food in the West Bank and Gaza
-   The President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops offers his solidarity to migrants in America subjected to the largest mass deportation programme in history

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