Rafael Llanes, Author at ZENIT - English

Articles By Rafael Llanes

Vatican City

First Auditor General of the Vatican Appeals Ruling of the Vatican Court

In Vatican law and Italian law, the prosecution and defense can appeal verdicts, and second appeals are allowed.

Feb 19, 2024 00:37

Rafael Llanes

Local Church•Testimonies

War in Ukraine? Leader of the Eastern Greek-Catholic Church, the Most Numerous in Communion with the Pope, Responds

His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk asks if “as a shepherd of this suffering people: is it possible to sacrifice millions of Ukrainians suffering atrocities at the hands of the Russian occupiers for a so-called peace? Can I sacrifice my communities and be calm, while our Church is banned in the occupied territories? “Can I sacrifice our priests kidnapped by the Russians, about whom we have not heard anything for a year?”

Feb 06, 2024 18:13

Rafael Llanes

Local Church

The Philippines: Faced with Proposals for Changes in the Country’s Constitution, the Church Expresses Her Opposition

The change is proposed to attract foreign investment. Opposed voices warn that it will increase the exploitation of natural resources and of indigenous lands.

Feb 05, 2024 23:27

Rafael Llanes

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Attack in Catholic Church in Istanbul: More Details Come to Light

The other aspect that could also have moved the hand of these aggressors: is the reaction to the climate of Islamophobia that is being installed and fueled in the West.

Feb 03, 2024 01:23

Rafael Llanes

Good News•Vatican City

Vatican Hospital Takes In Children of Gaza Wounded by the War

This humanitarian project in favour of the children of Gaza was an initiative of the Vicariate of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Governments of Italy and Egypt, in agreement with the Israeli Authorities. The intention is to take immediately some one hundred seriously wounded children to Italy and the Vatican to palliate the harm they have suffered from the bombings and battles in Gaza, medical care that is practically impossible in the Palestinian Strip.

Feb 01, 2024 23:17

Rafael Llanes

Vatican City

Vatican Will Produce and Sell Its Own Wine Brand

In the territory of the Vatican State, vines have been planted for the production of wine to meet internal needs and have it available to visitors.

Jan 31, 2024 23:26

Rafael Llanes

Local Church•Pope Francis•Religious Freedom

Pope creates new diocese in China and appoints bishop, in agreement with country’s communist government

The diocese had been without a bishop since 2008. During the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, proclaimed by Pope Francis between 2015 and 2016, the community promoted the reading of Sacred Scripture, biblical courses, and Mercy Concerts.

Jan 29, 2024 14:31

Rafael Llanes

Islam

Participants in Muslims’ Pilgrimage to Mecca Increased by 58% in 2023

Rabia also referred to the existence of “several projects underway to develop Mecca’s infrastructure, at a cost that exceeds US$1,333million.”

Jan 26, 2024 23:25

Rafael Llanes

Gender Ideology•Homosexuality•Justice and Peace

Australian Government Prohibits LGBTIQ People Prayers of Repentance

Victoria’s Equality of Opportunities and Human Rights Commission established the “prayer practices related to the prohibition,” “with or without an LGBT person,” as illegal. Thus the Government has established what can or cannot be prayed within oneself.

Jan 11, 2024 17:31

Rafael Llanes

Church and World•Local Church

Catholic Church Generates 3% of Spain’s GDP in 2024 Thanks to Its Cultural Patrimony

Goods of cultural interest and religious festivities of tourist interest will have an impact in 2024 and will repeat the 3% of Spain’s GDP, according to economic data published by the Bishops

Jan 09, 2024 00:06

Rafael Llanes

Gender Ideology•Justice and Peace•Persecuted Christians

England: Teacher Refuses to Teach LGBT Ideology in “Christian” School and Is Persecuted

After teaching classes for 12 years, Glawdys Leger, 43, was dismissed and singled out as a “dangerous criminal” for refusing to impart LGTQI lessons of the Religious Education Program to 7th year students.

Jan 06, 2024 00:27

Rafael Llanes

Controversies•Local Church

Gender Ideology Comes to Christmas Cribs… Including with the Help of a Priest

In Capocastello di Mercogliano , a village near Naples, Italy, Father Vitaliano Della Sala defended the representation of Jesus’ birth in a Nativity Scene with two Mothers of the Child Jesus, instead of Mary and Joseph.

Jan 03, 2024 13:08

Rafael Llanes

General Audience on Wednesday, September 18

Pope Francis recounts his pastoral trip to Asia and Oceania: “It was not a tourist trip but to bring the Word of the Lord”

Pope’s General Audience, September 18, 2024 on his pastoral trip to Asia and Oceania

He did so by sending a video message to the fifty young people participating in MED 24 Tirana, a new edition of the Mediterranean Encounters

The Pope at MED24 asked the young people of the Mediterranean to help the region “recover its expression of fraternity and peace” and stop being “a graveyard”

He did so through a message he sent to the young people participating in Albania at MED 24 in Tirana. Inspired by the previous Mediterranean Meetings, the event aims to create a spirit of fraternity following Francis’ call to build bridges of dialogue between the different religions and cultures of the Mediterranean.