Pope Leo speaks with Israeli president and reiterates condemnation of anti-Semitism

Dec 17, 2025 11:23

Enrique Villegas

Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by telephone. Photo: Vatican Media

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

Overall, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Christians are still in Syria. Of those who remain, more than half are over the age of 50. The community’s age structure is inverted, with far fewer young people able or willing to stay

Dec 13, 2025 19:15

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Young People

The 25-35 Generation Demands Pastoral Care That Listens, Welcomes, and Accompanies

The study reveals a happy, engaged, and relational generation that deeply values community and interpersonal relationships — family, friendship, and faith — but feels a lack of spaces of belonging appropriate to their stage of life.

Dec 13, 2025 09:59

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

The confessional, long considered a casualty of modernity, may thus be reemerging as a defining space for a Church that has learned to live as a minority—smaller, more urban, and more intentional than before

Dec 12, 2025 19:33

Covadonga Asturias

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

A recent nationwide survey conducted by EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research illustrates this tension with unusual clarity

Dec 12, 2025 19:29

Tim Daniels

Islam

What about feminism? Mexico declares the use of Islamic veils in official document photos legal

The ruling emerged from a case that began not in the nation’s highest tribunal, but at a routine government office in the northern city of Chihuahua

Dec 12, 2025 19:26

Enrique Villegas

Health for all: a speech by Leo XIV on health and human life

Address of the Pope to participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Opus Dei before the Pope: what was said about the new statutes and some controversies in Argentina

In addition, they discussed the situation of vocations in the Church and, particularly, the contrast between the situation in Africa and in Europe.

Pope Leo speaks with Israeli president and reiterates condemnation of anti-Semitism

Nicaraguan dictatorship bans Bibles from entering the country

Faith at 35,000 Feet: United Airlines, Catholic Doctrine, and the Limits of Corporate Tolerance

Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigration Czar, a Catholic, Speaks Out Against US Church’s Message

Following ADF lawsuit, Houston school district respects parents’ wishes concerning daughter

NC high school student sues school district for censoring her Charlie Kirk tribute

The virtue of hope and diplomatic action, according to Pope Leo XIV

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

The 25-35 Generation Demands Pastoral Care That Listens, Welcomes, and Accompanies

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

What about feminism? Mexico declares the use of Islamic veils in official document photos legal