By Gerard O’Connell, America Magazine Vatican City, Oct 4, 2025: Pope Leo XIV on October 4 signed his first major document, an apostolic exhortation called “Dilexi te” (“I have loved you”), which will focus on love for the poor. The Vatican said it will be published on October 9, andContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Siliguri, September 12, 2025 – In a rapidly developing situation in Nepal, widespread anti-government protests have not only led to the resignation of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, but have also been marked by a strong and visible backlash against Indian news media. This sentiment escalatedContinue Reading
By Steve Biswakarma Special to Matters India Kathmandu, September 9, 2025 — Nepal entered a new political chapter on Sept 9 after Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli resigned amid unprecedented, youth-driven protests demanding an end to corruption and the restoration of civil liberties. The resignation, triggered Generation Z, hasContinue Reading
Sucre, Sept 4, 2025: A Bolivian court has sentenced two elderly Spanish Jesuit priests to a year each in prison for concealing decades of child sex abuse committed by their colleague in the church. The convictions of Fathers Marcos Recolons, 81, and Ramon Alaix, 83, on September 2 mark Bolivia’sContinue Reading
Statesman News Service New Delhi, Aug 28, 2025: The transgender mass shooter who attacked a Catholic church in Minneapolis also had a chilling hate message for India. In one of the weapons, the shooter had written, “Nuke India,” and above that in misspelt Russian, “Kill yourself,” and showed them offContinue Reading
Rome, Aug 4, 2025: Pope Leo XIV has told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible” where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons. InContinue Reading
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
