Annual Survey Provides Insight into the State of the Permanent Diaconate in the Church

Jun 08, 2023 00:06

ZENIT Staff

Ordination of Deacons in Atlanta. Photo: Servir En Las Periferias

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Young People

Report Reveals That Children Inherit Their Parents’ Faith and Political Ideas

The religious and political affiliation of young people with their parents lasts longer among Protestants.

May 30, 2023 15:10

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

Israel Has Fewer Women in Parliament, But More Women Workers Among the Ultra-Orthodox

The lack of adequate representation in the government and in the Knesset deals a severe blow to the status of women in Israel and can be expected to profoundly affect their lives for the worse.

May 29, 2023 07:21

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Chinese Government Implements Digital Identification System for Priests

The file contains name, sex, title, religious denomination, registration number, etc. The token is associated with a phone number. For their part, religious denominations, such as the Catholic Church, undertake to update the registration data.

May 26, 2023 20:07

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

USA: Planned Parenthood is challenging Arizona’s pre-Roe v. Wade law protecting unborn lives

Pro-life groups urge AZ Supreme Court to uphold state law protecting women, children. Numerous friend-of-the-court briefs filed with state’s high court

May 26, 2023 20:04

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Another step against Russia: Ukrainian Orthodox to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25

The transition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the New Julian calendar should take place from September 1, 2023 (the beginning of the new ecclesiastical year).

May 25, 2023 19:58

ZENIT Staff

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

How Jesus Christ transforms man’s relationship with God, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s general audience, January 14, 2026, on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation

Annual Survey Provides Insight into the State of the Permanent Diaconate in the Church

Pope Meets Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus in the Vatican and Announces Apostolic Letter in Her Honour

Ireland: Catholics take a nosedive on the island of saints

Ukrainian President receives Cardinal sent by Pope for peace mission

London: Call for justice presented at 10 Downing Street

40 Nigerians killed in church bombing call for canonization

Special Synod Convoked in India Given the Imminent Risk of a Schism Over the Liturgy

Report Reveals That Children Inherit Their Parents’ Faith and Political Ideas

Israel Has Fewer Women in Parliament, But More Women Workers Among the Ultra-Orthodox

Chinese Government Implements Digital Identification System for Priests

USA: Planned Parenthood is challenging Arizona’s pre-Roe v. Wade law protecting unborn lives

Another step against Russia: Ukrainian Orthodox to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25