China: Guidelines Instruct Religions How to Implement the New Patriotic Education Law

Jan 15, 2024 18:17

As the Guidelines state, believers should understand that in China “the state is greater than religion, and the state law is greater than religious rules.” Photo: RT

Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Vatican City

Nicaraguan dictatorship frees Bishop Rolando Álvarez and expels him from the country

The release and expulsion from Nicaragua come after Pope Francis, on January 8th, denounced before the Diplomatic Corps of the entire world the following

Jan 14, 2024 00:51

Enrique Villegas

Causes of Saints•Local Church•Vatican City

Next Argentinean saint «performs miracle»: Javier Milei and Pope Francis at the Vatican

With this new gesture, tensions that had existed in the past between Milei and the Pope, particularly due to statements made by the former about the latter, seem to be easing.

Jan 14, 2024 00:49

Enrique Villegas

Pope Francis•Young People

What Is “Short-Term or Weak Thinking”? Pope Francis Explains It to Recently Graduated Young People

The Pope’s address to scholarship holders of the Toniolo Young Professional Association on the occasion of its 10th Annual Assembly

Jan 12, 2024 21:45

ZENIT Staff

Ecumenism•Pope Francis

Pope to Orthodox: “I Believe that Our Past Histories Can Gradually Be Healed”

The Holy Father’s address to the Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration with the Orthodox Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches

Jan 12, 2024 21:35

ZENIT Staff

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

From Africa to Spain via Monaco: this is Leo XIV’s global travel schedule for 2026

The schedule outlines three distinct journeys: a ten-day pilgrimage across four African nations, a one-day visit to Monaco, and a six-day trip to Spain that will culminate in the Canary Islands. Together, they form a carefully calibrated map of priorities that blends history, diplomacy, evangelization and social concern.

Did Pope Leo XIV speak out against the Spanish party Vox, which is aligned with the Trump administration?

The episode underscores how quickly nuanced papal language can be refracted through national political debates—and how carefully episcopal conferences now feel compelled to guard the boundary between pastoral guidance and partisan interpretation

China: Guidelines Instruct Religions How to Implement the New Patriotic Education Law

Vicar of Arabia: from Gaza to the Houthis ‘worrying’ escalation. Close to the Christians in Yemen

Israel’s crisis and divisions reflected in the Gaza war

Pope Francis on Too Many Ecclesiastical Universities in Rome and the Challenge of What to Do About It

Revealing Scandal: Planned Parenthood USA Facilitates Secret Abortions to Adolescents Without Parental Consent

Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith announces document on gender ideology and surrogate motherhood

New Gallup Poll Shows Approval and Disapproval Levels of Pope Francis in the U.S.

Nicaraguan dictatorship frees Bishop Rolando Álvarez and expels him from the country

Next Argentinean saint «performs miracle»: Javier Milei and Pope Francis at the Vatican

What Is “Short-Term or Weak Thinking”? Pope Francis Explains It to Recently Graduated Young People

Pope to Orthodox: “I Believe that Our Past Histories Can Gradually Be Healed”

Australian Government Prohibits LGBTIQ People Prayers of Repentance