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Visual evidence first circulated by a Palestinian journalist was later reinforced by local sources who documented the same statue intact before the attack Photo: @ytirawi

Controversies•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

On the Controversy with Trump, Leo XIV Denounces a «Not Entirely Accurate Narrative»

During the flight from Cameroon to Angola, the third leg of an itinerary that will ultimately take him to Equatorial Guinea, the Pope explained to the approximately 70 journalists accompanying him that many media interpretations are based on a dynamic of «comments upon comments,» rather than reflecting his true intentions.

Religious Freedom

Human Rights Watch: church ban for minors in China violates human rights

A new release by the human rights NGO highlights the increased pressure by Chinese authorities on Catholics in the shadow of «sinicisation» and the agreement with the Holy See on episcopal appointments. A member of an underground community merged into an official diocese laments that, “We started praying like we were thieves.” A United Front document has emerged calling for telling on parents who “instill religious ideas to their children”.

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Popes and wars in the contemporary era

Faced with the destructive power of modern weapons, it is very difficult to speak, as was done in past centuries, of the possibility of a ‘just war.’ As early as 1963, Pope John XXIII, in ‘Pacem in Terris,’ wrote that in the atomic age it becomes almost impossible to think that war can be considered an instrument of justice. In this same spirit stands Pope Leo XIV, who is making peace one of the central themes of his pontificate.