“Be a sign of hope with words and gestures,” Pope asks Arab Catholic bishops

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Pope Francis received in audience, in the Salita of the Paul VI Hall, the bishops who are members of the Latin Episcopal Conference of the Arab Regions Photo: Vatican Media

last General Audience of August was dedicated by the Pope to the topic of migration.

Msgr Melchior Shi Honghzen as bishop of the Tianjin diocese - a metropolis in northern China.

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Vatican’s dialogue with China and Pope Francis’ realism

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“Be a sign of hope with words and gestures,” Pope asks Arab Catholic bishops

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Pope Francis visits the tomb of St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine, in downtown Rome

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150 killed (22 of them Christians) in “unprecedented” Islamist attack in Burkina Faso

Congress specialized in ecclesial institutional communication in the context of Jubilee 2025 for communicators announced