Jubilee 2025•Rome

“A Great Symphony of Prayer”, webinars on prayer in English and French to launch in April

The webinars will be available in English and French: the first four in English will be held in April, and the second series of four in October 2024. The English language series, which will begin on 2 April, is entitled, “A Great Symphony of Prayer: The Our Father as a Program of Life.”

Apr 05, 2024 22:17

ZENIT Staff

Ecumenism

Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople: open to celebrating Easter on the same date as Catholics

Pope Francis has also expressed his intention to reach an agreement to establish a common date for Easter. In 2015, the pontiff said that the two churches “have to reach an agreement.”

Apr 05, 2024 20:56

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology

Non-binary Canadian demands that the government cover his extreme genital surgery

The case concerns K.S., a 33-year-old who was born as a male, but now identifies as a “feminine dominant” non-binary. He uses a female name. The most appropriate surgery for his gender identity, he feels, is a “penile-preserving vaginoplasty”, a procedure which is offered at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Texas. It is not available in Canada.

Apr 05, 2024 19:41

ZENIT Staff

Jubilee 2025•Pope Francis•Rome

Pope and Priests From a Sector of Rome Talk About Prisoners, Women in the Formation of Priests and the Forthcoming Jubilee

The Holy Father met with the priests of the 11th Prefecture, the parish priests of the North Sector of the Diocese of Rome

Apr 05, 2024 05:23

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Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Testimonies

Cardinal Ambongo: statements on the new colonialisms and Fiducia Supplicans

Recently, Cardinal Ambongo held a Conference on “Mission and Interreligious dialogue in Africa” at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome.

Apr 04, 2024 02:20

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace

The European Parliament hosts the Salesian Family to promote a positive dialogue about partnerships with the private sector

The event is the result of the advocacy strategy that DBI is implementing in the last year, in order to strengthen the visibility of Salesian actions in Europe and beyond within the European institutions.

Apr 04, 2024 02:18

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Jerusalem: Israeli police assault clergy, evict residents of Armenian church land

Permits or court orders were NOT presented and they continued to protect and assist the representatives of Xana Gardens in their destruction of property. During attempts to stop the unlawful activity, several members of the police continued to state that they have come with permits without ever presenting them.

Apr 04, 2024 02:04

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Rome

Jesuits speak out on Gaza situation

“It is scandalous that no one has been able to ensure that the residents of Gaza have enough to eat. It is shameful that no one has been able to call the warmongers to account. Sadly, we remember that an ongoing conflict in the land called to be holy has been allowed to continue and fester as an open wound on the face of the Middle East”, says the press release

Apr 03, 2024 00:12

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Pope Francis

The cardinal virtue of justice explained by Pope Francis

Pope’s General Audience, April 3, 2024 on Justice

Apr 03, 2024 00:07

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Local Church•Religious Freedom

Indian government wanted Easter 2024 to go unnoticed, but Catholic population rebelled

In the Indian state shaken by ethnic violence, the state government had announced that this Sunday, 31 March, would be a working day, using as a pretext the fact that it is the last day of the fiscal year. After protests by Christians (who are over 40 per cent of the local population), state authorities backtracked.

Apr 02, 2024 23:53

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Hong Kong and the obsession with national security

In a place where 1,832 people are already in prison on political grounds, the new law implementing Article 23 only “cloak[s] injustice with a veil of institutional legitimacy,” wrote a few months ago Chow Hang-tung, jailed for remembering the dead in Tiananmen Square. The real answer is not to forget this China behind bars, in Hong Kong and in the People’s Republic.

Apr 02, 2024 23:48

ZENIT Staff

Rome•Vatican City

PHOTO GALLERY: First Marian church in the world, in Rome, to receive historic bell

Even today at 9 p.m., the tolling of the bell can still be heard in memory of the story of the pilgrim who was lost in the night and who, thanks to the tolling, found her way back into the city.

Apr 02, 2024 23:45

ZENIT Staff