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One Million Young People Are Expected in Rome for the Youth Jubilee: Here’s the Detailed Program

From Monday, July 28, to August 3, 2025, the Youth Jubilee will be celebrated, the most anti-cipated and attended Jubilee event of the Holy Year 2025, with the arrival in Rome of hundreds of thousands of young people from 246 countries. Specifically, appro-ximately one million pilgrims are expected to attend the Prayer Vigil with Pope […]

Caritas Europa reaffirms support for Ukraine amid ongoing war

As Ukraine continues to grapple with the ongoing conse-quences of war more than three years after the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, a delegation from Caritas Europa, led by its President, Msgr Michael Landau, visited the country to express solidarity, assess current needs, and renew support for the local Caritas network. The visit included […]

Gaza priest injured in Israeli bombing discusses impact on parish community

“Thanks be to God more people weren’t harmed,” said Father Gabriel Romanelli in an exclusive interview with EWTN on July 24 in the wake of the July 17 bombing of his parish, Holy Family Church in Gaza, which left three dead and 15 wounded, including himself. “It was a shocking experience,” Romanelli told “EWTN Noticias” […]

Pope: May blood of ‘martyrs’ in DRC church attack become seed of peace

“May the blood of these martyrs become a seed of peace, reconciliation, fraternity, and love for the Congolese people,” the Pope writes in his message following a brutal attack on a Catholic Church in Komanda town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 40 people were killed Sunday in eastern Congo’s Ituri province when rebels […]

World watches as starvation deaths mount in Gaza

The rising toll of malnutrition in Gaza is drawing global concern, the total number of deaths from starvation in the enclave has reached 147 — 88 of them are children, health officials say. However, more than 120 trucks carrying food and humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on July 27, marking the first major delivery […]

Pope Leo makes ‘heartfelt appeal’ on humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Pope Leo XIV has said that he is following the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with “great con-cern” while also renewing his “heartfelt appeal for a ceasefire.” Speaking on July 27 in St. Peter’s Square after giving his Angelus address, the Pope described how the civilian population in Gaza is being “crushed by hunger and continues […]

Church in Mexico warns of demographic change, calls for protection of families

The Catholic Church in Mexico called on Latin American society and authorities to care for the family, emphasizing that “protecting the family is prote-cting the future of our society.” In a recent editorial in its weekly publication Desde la Fe (From the Faith), the Primatial Arch-diocese of Mexico City noted that the region is facing […]

Italian police confiscate 13 million unauthorized religious articles sold around the Vatican

As the 2025 Jubilee Year unfolds, Rome is experie-ncing not only a surge in pilgrims but also an un-welcome flood of counterfeit religious merchandise and labour law violations. Since the opening of the Holy Year on December 24, authori-ties have seized a staggering 24 million fake items across the city – with over half being […]