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Church in Northern Thailand urges ethical formation in the AI age

At the beginning of this year, the Catholic Church in northern Thailand held its 2026 Annual Regional Seminar in Nakhon Phanom Province in the country’s northeast, bordering Laos. The gathering was attended by nearly 200 priests, five bishops, and several delegates from neighboring Laos. The seminar focused on the theme drawn from the recent Vatican […]

Philippine Church highlights unity as Lent, Ramadan begin together

As Ramadan and Lent begin on the same day this year, Catholic and Muslim communities in the Philippines are being invited to embrace the moment as a shared season of prayer, fasting, and conversion. Ramadan commemorates the first revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, while Lent prepares Catholics for the commemoration of the […]

Cardinal Bo: Myanmar forgotten by world, but not by God

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, has repeatedly warned that “Myanmar is going through a ‘polycrisis’: an economic crisis, with rising prices; a crisis due to the loss of job opportunities; a social crisis, with more than 3.5 million displaced persons and young people fleeing abroad; a crisis of basic health care; and a […]

Parish Priest of Nuuk, Greenland: ‘Our home is not for sale’

“We want to choose [Greenland’s] future ourselves.” A quiet determination runs through the icy streets of Nuuk, which, with its 20,000 inhabitants, is Greenland’s main city. It is Father Tomaž Majcen, a Slovene Franciscan friar, who is describing the atmosphere on the Artic island to Vatican Media. For about two and a half years, he has […]

US Bishops urge respect for human life after Minneapolis killings

Tensions are running high in the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and US citizen, on 24 January. The federal government alleged that Mr. Pretti was carrying a gun and intervened as ICE agents confronted a woman on the […]

‘The answer to suffering is not tooffer death,’ cardinal says of assisted suicide bill in Italy

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI, by its Italian acronym), reaffirmed the Italian bishops’ opposition to any legislation that would legitimize assisted suicide or euthanasia while also calling for greater investment in palliative care and support for the sick. “The answer to suffering is not to offer death but to guarantee […]

Vatican doctrine chief warns against blogs claiming theological authority

The Vatican’s doctrine chief warned that blogs and online commentators increasingly claim a theological authority they do not possess, narrowing the church’s ability to holistically engage faith and reality.  Opening the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Jan. 27, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, dicastery prefect, said theologians risk “losing […]

81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz: ‘Let memory become a light’

Memory must not turn into a ritual or a “lesson to be checked off,” speakers stressed during the anniversary commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp. Survivor Bernard Offen appealed: “Let memory not be a burden. Let it become a light that will guide us in the darkness,” while Auschwitz Museum Director Piotr […]