Prison sentence for two Israeli soldiers who desecrated an image of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon

May 13, 2026 22:20

he image, which circulated widely online on Wednesday, May 6, immediately provoked outrage among many Lebanese Christians Photo: Social Networks

Local Church

What Will Happen to the Historic Stained Glass Windows of Notre Dame de Paris?

Declared a historical monument along with the rest of the Cathedral, the stained glass windows by Viollet-le-Duc were saved from the devastating fire of April 15, 2019.

May 12, 2026 07:12

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

128,750 Christians in Nigeria killed over 17 years: the $10 million cover-up of the genocide in Nigeria

Tinubu’s administration has launched a $10 million lobbying front to silence human rights accountability in the U.S. and whitewash the genocide of Nigerian Christians. This isn’t just spin — it’s a calculated effort to rewrite history while innocent lives are increasingly at risk

May 11, 2026 17:24

ZENIT Staff

Controversies•Dicasteries•Gender Ideology

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation

Courage International, a ministry founded more than four decades ago to accompany men and women seeking to live according to the Catholic Church’s teaching on chastity, issued an unusually forceful statement on May 8 accusing the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod of publishing what it called a “false and unjust” portrayal of its work

May 11, 2026 17:10

Valentina di Giorgio

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Cloths on Altars

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

May 10, 2026 12:07

Fr. Edward McNamara

Analysis Opinion

Study Reveals Increase in Church Attendance (and Donations): The Surprising (and Encouraging) Findings You Should Know

Digital giving expanded dramatically during and after the pandemic. In 2020, only 58 percent of congregations offered online giving options. By 2025, that number had climbed to 76 percent. Researchers estimate that roughly 40 percent of church income now arrives through online donations.

May 10, 2026 11:24

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Leo XIV Meets with Victims of Abuse in Spain

During the conversation, which lasted almost an hour, each of those present, drawing on their own painful personal experiences, offered the Pope proposals for a more effective Church response to these tragic cases.

The Pope’s powerful homily on the Feast of Corpus Christi: may religiosity not be a museum of the past, but a school of faith from which we can draw inspiration even today

Homily by the Holy Father on the occasion of Corpus Christi in Madrid

Prison sentence for two Israeli soldiers who desecrated an image of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon

What does it mean that Mary is a model of the Church? Leo XIV’s response

The Bible and Young People: 7 Striking Findings from New Global Research

Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic

Over 100 dead, 98,000 displaced, 217 churches destroyed in the diocese of Wukari

4 Issues with the Vatican Synod Document, According to the Priest Who Heads Courage, a Catholic Apostolate for Gay Men

Israel expels (from Palestine!) a young Catholic priest: the most influential figure in Palestine’s Christian community

What Will Happen to the Historic Stained Glass Windows of Notre Dame de Paris?

128,750 Christians in Nigeria killed over 17 years: the $10 million cover-up of the genocide in Nigeria

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation

Questions about liturgy: Cloths on Altars

Study Reveals Increase in Church Attendance (and Donations): The Surprising (and Encouraging) Findings You Should Know