Pope calls on European institutions to promote ‘healthy secularism’

Pope Leo XIV receives members of the Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican yesterday (Vatican Media) “European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism,” Pope Leo XIV told members of a...

From Nicaragua to the Vatican: China’s Diplomatic Bidding War with Taiwan

Written by Sophia Li. Image credit: 01.10 尼加拉瓜的建築 by 總統府/ Flickr, license: CC BY 2.0. In 2019, the Solomon Islands received a reported $500 million in promised Chinese investments, days before it cut ties with Taiwan and recognised Beijing. Soon...

Pope Leo XIV: ‘European Institutions Need People Who Know How to Live a Healthy Secularism’

The Pope urged the cultivation of a style of thought and action that affirms the value of religion in the public square. Pope Leo XIV on Monday said European institutions need “people who know how to live a healthy secularism” while urging...

Tanzanian envoy to Vatican attends requiem as Archbishop Rugambwa is laid to rest

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA’S Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, responsible for East African Affairs, Dennis Londo, has met with the Vatican Ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Angelo Accattino, and conveyed condolences...

Pope encourages European parliamentarians to pursue ‘healthy secularism’

4 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the European Parliament to pursue “a healthy secularism” that maintains the distinction between religions and governments. “European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy...

HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Meets Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City

His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain, met today with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV during his official visit to the Vatican City State and the Italian Republic. During the meeting, His...

Pope Leo XIV urges European institutions to promote a 'healthy secularism'

Pope Leo XIV receives the Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, an initiative of European Parliament, insisting that 'European institutions need people who know how to live 'a healthy secularism,' and reaffirming that 'being...

British peers pushing to overturn abortion up to birth clause

A significant attempt to undo a controversial clause allowing abortion up to birth was mounted in the UK Parliament this week. Pro-life peers Baroness Monckton and Baroness Stroud pressed their case in the House of Lords by tabling amendments –...

Miracle on the Mediterranean—an Appeal to the Vatican State

Activists and human rights defenders ride aboard a vessel departing from Tunisia’s northern port of Bizerte on September 14, 2025 to join the last boats taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, bound for the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s blockade...

King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years

Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent ShareSave King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century. This historic moment will be in the Sistine...

King Charles to make state visit to Vatican next month

King Charles III (gg.govt.nz/Mark Tantrum) King Charles III and Queen Camilla will travel to the Vatican for a state visit next month, Buckingham Palace has announced. Source: Catholic Herald. The visit was originally scheduled for April this year...

Lafayette Parish firefighters rescue man from burning mobile home, another person injured; dog died

LAFAYETTE PARISH, La. (NEWS 15) — Firefighters rescued a man from a burning mobile home in Lafayette Parish and another person got out on their own, but the family dog did not survive. The two people were taken to the hospital but both are...

Guest Column: I’m a fan of the new pope, but he got this one wrong

The two great debates of my lifetime have been the following: “Is it gravy or sauce” and “Can a pro-lifer support the death penalty.” The first conundrum is more controversial in my family. The second doesn’t have the philosophical gravitas of the...

Trump’s Gaza policy and the Vatican’s silence: A matter of moral consistency

President Trump’s re-election had established the analysts’ worst fears about his policy on Gaza and Palestinian rights. Despite campaign promises of a halt to the Gaza war in days, his policies have systematically protracted the conflict and...

Pope appoints Campisi as Vatican envoy to UNESCO

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor Roberto Campisi as the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to UNESCO in Paris. On 27 September it was announced that the Sicilian-born prelate, who had spent the past three years as Assessor for General Affairs in...

Global faith leader and medical trailblazer Russell M. Nelson dies at age 101

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KIFI) — Communities worldwide are mourning the passing of Russell M. Nelson, the 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a former world-renowned heart surgeon. President Nelson passed away...

Vatican not ready to declare war in Gaza genocide: pope in book

The Holy See is not ready to declare Israel’s campaign in Gaza genocide, Pope Leo XIV said in an interview given in July but published Thursday. “The word genocide is being thrown around more and more,” the pope said in an interview with US...

Pope Leo makes surprise pick as his successor in powerful Vatican office

Pope Leo during the Jubilee of Catechists Audience in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican (Picture: Evandro Inetti/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock) Pope Leo XIV has named a relatively unknown Italian cleric to lead the Vatican office he previously...

Pope says world hunger a collective failure

The Pope is applauded after his address at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s headquarters in Rome yesterday (CNS/Vatican Media) “Allowing millions of human beings to live — and die — as victims of hunger is a collective failure, an...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican

King Charles III, head of the Church of England, and Queen Camilla will make a state visit to meet Pope Leo XIV for the first time at the Vatican next month, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. "Their Majesties The King and Queen will undertake a...