For the first time in 500 years, two women in team of sanpietrini of Vatican basilica

Jul 13, 2024 16:12

Amy Balog

two women have joined the maintenance team of the Vatican Basilica Photo: Vatican Basilica

help promote vocations by allowing novices to study in their mother tongue

The incident occurred late June 2024 at the Church of the Holy Family

Local Church

Fire in the French cathedral of Rouen: what happened?

he cathedral, currently undergoing restoration, saw its 151-meter spire catch fire, reportedly due to a welding spark igniting plastic sheeting covering the work area.

Jul 11, 2024 07:06

Covadonga Asturias

Local Church

German Catholic Church Faces Significant Drop in Church Tax Revenue for 2023

The trend is not unique to the Catholic Church. The Protestant regional churches in Germany, grouped under the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), also reported a decline in tax revenues. In 2023, they collected approximately €5.9 billion, down 5.3% from the €6.24 billion recorded in 2022, another record year for them.

Jul 11, 2024 07:03

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Is Israel waging a «just war»?

On October 7 around 1,200 Israelis were massacred. How can Israel morally justify a ratio of 35 Palestinian deaths for every Israeli one? There is an answer to this. It can be justified if Israel is fighting a just war.

Jul 10, 2024 16:27

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Nigeria: Catholic priest freed after two weeks in captivity

The parish priest of St Raymond’s Catholic Church, in Damba, Zamfara State, had been abducted from his presbytery in Sokoto Diocese, north-west Nigeria, in the early hours of Saturday, 22nd June.

Jul 10, 2024 16:21

John Pontifex

Dicasteries•Local Church

World Religions Sign Pope’s Appeal for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Japan

The new signatories, in the presence of top representatives of the Japanese Government and of big tech Microsoft, IBM and Cisco, signed the Call which urges the application, in the field of AI, of algorethics, i.e. ethics by design.

Jul 10, 2024 16:17

ZENIT Staff

Under the agreement with China, Leo XIV appoints a new bishop

Chang Yanfeng, 42, was ordained bishop today under the Sino-Holy See agreement to a diocese that has been without its own pastor for 20 years. Just three weeks ago, the new prelate had to publicly commit the local Church to a controversial law designed to eliminate minorities.

Leo XIV encourages religious to view community life as a source of inspiration and sanctification

Message from Leo XIV to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders in the United States

For the first time in 500 years, two women in team of sanpietrini of Vatican basilica

Jesuits open their first training centre in Bangladesh

Missionaries because disciples.

Vandal Decapitates Statue of Infant Jesus at New York Parish

Historic Cathedral in the Philippines Designated as National Shrine

She Was Lesbian, He Homosexual: The Inspiring Story of Tove and Bjørn Refstad” Marriage

Third Vatican Pronouncement on Apparitions: Negative for “Our Lady of All Nations”

Fire in the French cathedral of Rouen: what happened?

German Catholic Church Faces Significant Drop in Church Tax Revenue for 2023

Is Israel waging a «just war»?

Nigeria: Catholic priest freed after two weeks in captivity

World Religions Sign Pope’s Appeal for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Japan