Theme for World Communications Day 2025 announced

Sep 24, 2024 07:40

The theme for the 2025 World Communications Day is particularly timely in an era where the polarization of opinions is deepening Photo: Vatican Media

The Virgin Mary, dressed in a traditional Korean “hanbok”, stands as a figure of maternal care and divine protection.

Monsignor Zhan Silu is Bishop in the province of Fujian, an area in China with a great Catholic presence

The broader context involves a significant espionage scandal that has rocked Italy.

Yaron Sideman presented Pope Francis with his credentials, officially accrediting him as the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Holy See.

Press Conference at the Press Office of the Holy See on Monday, September 16, 2024. Photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Card. Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness, will present the Ratzinger Prize 2024 to the theologian Professor Cyril O’Regan and the sculptor Etsurō Sotoo

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Pope to receive Popular Movements at Vatican: housing, land, and work

Popular Movements to commemorate ten years since their first meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican

Sep 10, 2024 12:05

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

Vatican goes further in clean energy: panels now also in its Museums

The Vatican’s Green Revolution: A Small State with a Big Environmental Ambition

Aug 30, 2024 15:56

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Vatican City

Vatican City’s immigration law, one of the strictest in Europe

Vatican citizenship is a rare status, tightly controlled and highly coveted. According to official records, only 618 individuals hold Vatican citizenship, making it the most exclusive in the world.

Aug 29, 2024 20:02

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

Vatican’s Lay Employees Raise Their Voice Against Labour Reforms and Call An Assembly for September

Far from being a simple work force, the Vatican’s employees have been considered for a long time as members of a “special family,” where work is not only a duty, but an expression of dignity and service inspired in Catholic Doctrine.

Aug 28, 2024 05:38

Valentina di Giorgio

Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Vatican City

Nicaraguan Dictator Accuses Vatican of Being a “Fascist Conglomerate”

He made these statements during a virtual meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a political and economic coalition, which brings together ten countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia.

Aug 27, 2024 05:35

ZENIT Staff

Trump responds to Pope Leo XIV: I don’t want a ceasefire

Donald Trump has publicly dismissed the very idea of a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict involving Iran. Questioned about the Pope’s earlier call—issued on 15 March—for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a reopening of dialogue, the U.S. president was blunt: “We can talk, but I don’t want a ceasefire.”

The account of the resurrection of Lazarus and the symptom of a longing for the infinite, as reflected upon by Leo XIV

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, March 22, 2026

Theme for World Communications Day 2025 announced

A Korean Virgin Mary in the Pope’s Vatican Gardens

Bishop Who Was Excommunicated Will Participate in the Synod on Synodality

Shadow of espionage shakes Vatican: Inquiry into leaks in London financial scandal

New Israeli ambassador to the Vatican presents himself to the Pope

Seven Items Are Revealed About the Forthcoming Synod on Synodality

Ratzinger Prize 2024 to theologian Cyril O’Regan and sculptor Etsurō Sotoo

Pope to receive Popular Movements at Vatican: housing, land, and work

Vatican goes further in clean energy: panels now also in its Museums

Vatican City’s immigration law, one of the strictest in Europe

Vatican’s Lay Employees Raise Their Voice Against Labour Reforms and Call An Assembly for September

Nicaraguan Dictator Accuses Vatican of Being a “Fascist Conglomerate”