US Bishops Exempt from Sunday Mass Immigrants Fearing Arrest: Which Dioceses Are Included and Until What Date?

Dec 29, 2025 17:22

Tim Daniels

diocesan Bishop, Earl Fernandes Photo: Kobe Gaines

Analysis Opinion•Persecuted Christians

Nigeria: A decade of terror for Catholic priests

New data highlights scale of priest kidnappings amid Nigeria’s security crisis

Dec 23, 2025 15:36

Maria Lozano

Good News•Local Church

The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

Discovered in 1998 by a team led by American archaeologist Thomas Parker, the church was constructed between approximately 293 and 303, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Unlike earlier Christian meeting places—often adapted private homes known as domus ecclesiae—the Aqaba structure was built from the ground up as a church

Dec 23, 2025 15:32

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Freedom Before Christmas: Nigeria’s St. Mary’s Abductions End, but the Questions Remain

For the Catholic Church in Nigeria, the episode reopens painful questions about the safety of faith-based institutions and the pastoral care of traumatized communities. Bishops and clergy have repeatedly warned that schools and parishes are increasingly vulnerable, even as they continue to serve populations with few alternatives

Dec 23, 2025 15:30

Elizabeth Owens

Local Church

Cardinal Damasceno confers ministries on 69 Heralds of the Gospel and hints at upcoming ordinations (end of Vatican intervention?)

It was at the conclusion of his reflection that the cardinal offered a cautious yet decisive sign of progress: “I hope that in the near future we will be able to confer the Holy Orders to those who are duly prepared.”

Dec 22, 2025 15:34

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

According to the 2024 edition of the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae in Polonia, 29.6 percent of Polish Catholics eligible to attend Mass were present on an average Sunday last year

Dec 22, 2025 15:29

Joachin Meisner Hertz

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Pope Leo XIV will not participate in the anniversary of St. John Paul II’s historic World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi

The Vatican’s decision does not suggest a setback in his recovery: reflects the prudence required after major surgery, even when clinical results are encouraging. The Pope had been expected to attend the gathering entitled “Disarmed and Disarming Peace,” which will bring together Christian leaders, representatives of other religious traditions and invited guests in the Umbrian town.

Pope Leo XIV to Jews at the Vatican: The Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism and combats it, in accordance with the Gospel itself

The Pope’s Remarks to a Delegation from the American Jewish Committee

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US Bishops Exempt from Sunday Mass Immigrants Fearing Arrest: Which Dioceses Are Included and Until What Date?

Putin bombs Ukraine on Christmas Day and Pope Leo XIV responds with humanitarian aid: photos of what he sent

American missiles, persecuted Christians, and a country that cannot protect them: why did Trump bomb part of Nigeria?

Muslims set fire to Catholic Christmas tree in the West Bank

Leo XIV, Putin’s rejection of the Christmas truce, and disappointment with the Democratic governor of Illinois

Priestly vocations in England and Wales: data pointing to either stabilization or decline

Trump administration bans “gender reassignment” surgeries on minors

Nigeria: A decade of terror for Catholic priests

The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

Freedom Before Christmas: Nigeria’s St. Mary’s Abductions End, but the Questions Remain

Cardinal Damasceno confers ministries on 69 Heralds of the Gospel and hints at upcoming ordinations (end of Vatican intervention?)

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin