By Deborah Castellano Lubov Vatican City, July 19,2025: In the wake of the Israeli strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, Pope Leo XIV and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak by phone, with the Pope reaffirming the urgent need to protect places of worship and achieve aContinue Reading
Canterbury, July 13, 2025: Plans are underway to exhume and enshrine the head of Sir Thomas More ahead of the 500th anniversary of his death. Saint More is the Catholic martyr who was beheaded in 1535 for opposing England King Henry VIII’s break from Rome, St Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury,Continue Reading
By Joseph San Mateo Manila, July 4, 2025: An archdiocese south of Manila said one of its parishes temporarily closed after a teenager committed suicide within the church building. Citing media reports, the news service of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said the person who committed suicide wasContinue Reading
By Devin Watkins Vatican Cit, June 12: Pope Leo XIV on June 12 expressed his condolences and prayed for the victims of a plane crash that killed more than 200 people in Ahmedabad, western India. Air India flight 171 took off from the airport in the commercial capital of GujaratContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Hanoi, June 4, 2025: Vietnam has officially scrapped its decades-old two-child limit, state media reported June 4, as the country faces a troubling decline in birth rates and mounting concerns over the long-term consequences of a shrinking population. The regulation, introduced in 1988 to curb population growth, hasContinue Reading
By Ngala Killian Chimtom Yaoundé, Cameroon, June 4, 2025: Flash floods that swept through some communities in Nigeria’s Benue state have killed more than 200 people with 500 more still missing. Authorities say there is no hope any of the missing might still be found alive. Father James Omeh, theContinue Reading
By Francesca Merlo Phnom Penh, May 31, 2025: Cardinal George Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, opened the eighth Buddhist-Christian Colloquium in Cambodia by urging people to build on their respective faith traditions to build peace through reconciliation and resilience. Religious leaders, scholars, and representatives of Buddhist andContinue Reading
By Christopher Khoo Singapore, April 22, 2025: The sweltering afternoon heat did not deter hundreds of devoted Singapore Catholics who stood outside a packed Cathedral of the Good Shepherd to pray for Pope Francis who had visited the island nation just last September. They were part of about a thousandContinue Reading
Vatican City, April 21, 2025: Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died at the age of 88, the Vatican said in a video statement on April 21. He was 88, and had suffered various ailments in his 12-year papacy. “This morning at 7:35 amContinue Reading
By Deborah Castellano Lubov Vatican City, April 11, 2025: The Holy See Press Office announced on Thursday two key appointments in the day’s ordinary bulletin at noon. In particular, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appointed Dr. Elvira Cajano, visiting Professor at the Faculty of History and CulturalContinue Reading
