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Vatican-backed report urges urgent global action on debt, development crises
Business Hallmark
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June 25, 2025
A landmark new report commissioned by Pope Francis and led by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine Economy Minister Martín Guzmán has called for urgent global action to address mounting debt and development crises facing billions of...
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s incorrupt body to be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth
Catholic News Agency
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July 7, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 7, 2025 / 14:15 pm The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 26 through Aug. 4. According to the Vatican’s jubilee office, the coffin...
Vatican Backs Report Calling for Financial Reforms to Alleviate Global Debt Crisis
National Catholic Register
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The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries. The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and...
New Study Reveals the Rosary Rivals Modern Meditation for Mental Health Benefits
National Catholic Register
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In an era where mindfulness apps dominate smartphones and meditation studios populate urban corners, a new groundbreaking international study suggests that the ancient Catholic prayer practice of praying the Rosary may offer comparable mental...
Vatican-China Agreement Enters New Phase With Pope Leo XIV at the Helm
National Catholic Register
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Rumor has it that a delegation from China is expected to visit the Vatican at the end of June for the regular bilateral meeting to discuss Sino-Vatican relations and the progress of the agreement on the appointment of bishops. The news is not...
Vatican report urges overhaul of Africa's debt architecture
African Business
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June 23, 2025
A new Vatican-backed report, unveiled in Rome, calls to overhaul the global financial architecture and fix a debt system that it says is punishing Africa and other developing regions. The Jubilee Report challenges the logic of inequity, arguing...
The Pope has ‘isolated’ breathing crisis in hospital, Vatican says
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Gangs in Haiti burn beloved Gothic gingerbread hotel
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s once-illustrious Grand Hotel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until dawn and attracted visitors from Mick Jagger to Haitian presidents, was burned down by gangs...
Vatican Backs Upcoming International Symposium in South Africa, Urges Delegates to Advance Gospel Witnessing
ACI Africa
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June 20, 2025
The event also seeks to create “a just and accountable global debt architecture rooted in equity and the public good; and the development of a Universal School Meals Program as a global commitment to child nutrition and education.” The outcomes of...
Vatican-backed report wants debt relief for developing countries
Christian Today
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June 21, 2025
(Photo: Getty/iStock) A report initiated by the late Pope Francis has called for changes to the global financial and debt system in what is the Catholic Church's “Jubilee Year”. The Jubilee Year is a year in which the Catholic Church commits...
Vatican sets up global commission to tackle sovereign debt crisis
Business and Financial Times
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June 20, 2025
…Ghana, others in the Global South to benefit By Kizito CUDJOE The Vatican has announced the launch of a high-level Commission of Experts to address the mounting sovereign debt crisis affecting Ghana and numerous other countries across the...
Vatican-backed report urges root and branch reform to tackle escalating debt crisis
New African Magazine
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June 20, 2025
A ground-breaking new report, authored by the Pope Francis’ Jubilee Commission calls for urgent action and systemic reforms to tackle the escalating debt and development crises affecting billions, including African in particular, worldwide. The...
Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis
Mongabay
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June 20, 2025
A commission appointed by the late Pope Francis has released a new report highlighting the urgent need to address global debt, which has hindered sustainable development and climate action. The report was authored by the Jubilee Commission, which...
Vatican-backed report seeks financial reform to avert decades of lost development
WKZO - Michigan
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June 20, 2025
By Libby George LONDON(Reuters) -A commission launched by the late Pope Francis has outlined financial reforms it says could help to avert decades of lost development in poor countries that face onerous repayments as global public debts reach...
Teaching Teens Real Virtue with Dietrich Von Hildebrand
National Catholic Register
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June 26, 2025
A Catholic teacher’s guide to deeper conversations about truth and freedom As a secondary school theology teacher, I rarely find a work in moral theology that balances academic rigor with the pastoral and pedagogical needs of high school students....
How Canada’s clergy navigate the pastoral challenges of assisted suicide
The Pillar
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July 7, 2025
Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD,...
MAiD unit, forced onto campus of Catholic-run hospital in Canada, now operational
The Central Minnesota Catholic
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June 24, 2025
Terry O’Neill | Canadian Catholic News, OSV News A government-ordered euthanasia facility, operated by the British Columbia government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority on the downtown campus of the Catholic-run St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver...
The future of global health, without the United States
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Towards the end of his first presidency, Donald Trump ordered a US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in a spat over its refusal to say that the COVID-19 virus was a Chinese laboratory leak. When the Biden administration came to...
Glastonbury sparks 'super-spreader event' fears over potentially fatal disease
SomersetLive
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June 24, 2025
Some 200,000 people are expected to descend on Glastonbury this weekend, to share in the enjoyment of one of the world's most famous music festivals. But, according to one expert, an unlucky few festival goers will be returning home with an...
What Is the Difference Between the Holy See, Vatican City, and the Roman Curia? Cardinal Ghirlanda Explains
Zenit
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June 24, 2025
(ZENIT News – SIR / Rome, 23.06.2025).- On the occasion of the Holy See’s Jubilee, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda clarified the differences between the Holy See and Vatican City State and reflected on the reform of the Curia. «Vatican diplomacy...