Inspiring: More Than 400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion

Jul 10, 2025 06:44

Rafael Llanes

400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion Photo: RRSS

Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

First Catholic priest killed by paramilitary militias in Sudan

Since the beginning of the war, many people have sought refuge on church compounds, and the Church in Sudan has almost no resources. ACN is supporting about 500 families in the Archdiocese of Khartoum with money for food, medical treatment, mosquito nets, tarpaulins and blankets

Jun 18, 2025 19:03

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Testimonies

The best-documented case of an exorcism in the U.S. comes to the movies (with Catholic priest’s advice)

Director David Midell brings the story to the screen, with a cast led by Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Ashley Greene, and Patricia Heaton. But what sets «The Ritual» apart from other exorcism films isn’t the star power — it’s the conscience behind the camera.

Jun 10, 2025 09:55

Tim Daniels

Testimonies•Vocations

Praying for priests: Polish nuns, lay people and the “emergency SMS for priests”

For over two decades, the «Bethany Mission of Support for Priests» has been matching laypeople with individual priests, not for mentorship, debate, or oversight—but for lifelong, silent intercession. This isn’t a lobbying group or a reform committee. It’s something far more ancient and, perhaps, more radical: a community that believes the best way to help priests is to pray for them.

Jun 05, 2025 20:40

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Testimonies

African springtime of faith: more than 1 million Catholics on Martyrs’ Day (and a foiled bombing)

Uganda’s Martyrs Day Draws a Million Pilgrims Amid Terror Threat Neutralized Near Kampala

Jun 04, 2025 17:02

Elizabeth Owens

Holy Land•Justice and Peace•Testimonies

The situation in Gaza as told by the parish priest of the only Catholic community in that martyrized land

For three months Gaza received no aid convoys, which meant that the parish had to ration the resources it has to feed the Christians within and some of the families that live nearby.

May 26, 2025 10:52

ZENIT Staff

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

The 2026 update is narrower in scope. Its most visible innovation is the formal introduction of “collaborators” — a new category distinct from the academy’s academic members.

Pope Leo XIV, the US-Iran war, and a forceful call in a Middle East on the brink of the abyss

The reverberations are being felt most acutely by Christian minorities already living on fragile ground

L	M	X	J	V	S	D
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

Inspiring: More Than 400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion

First Woman with Dwarfism on the Path to Canonization Thanks to Leo XIV

World’s Highest IQ Holder Publicly Professes Christian Faith, Citing Quantum Physics and the Mystery of Consciousness

8,583 Women Were Accompanied and Consoled by the Adoratrices, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and Charity

Corporate support for “gay pride” falls. Campaign launched by people who left LGBT+ activism

A Peruvian designer: in charge of revitalizing the Vatican’s digital heart

Woman in jail for 11 years for abortion: Canadian who opposed baby killing freed

First Catholic priest killed by paramilitary militias in Sudan

The best-documented case of an exorcism in the U.S. comes to the movies (with Catholic priest’s advice)

Praying for priests: Polish nuns, lay people and the “emergency SMS for priests”

African springtime of faith: more than 1 million Catholics on Martyrs’ Day (and a foiled bombing)

The situation in Gaza as told by the parish priest of the only Catholic community in that martyrized land