80,000 People Attend Mass Every Sunday… in the Same Church. Of Which Country Are We Talking About?

Oct 09, 2025 17:25

Rafael Llanes

St. Mary in Dubai, located in Oud Metha

General Audience•Pope Leo XIV

What do humility, wounds, and the Resurrection have in common? Pope Leo XIV explains it this way

Pope’s general audience, October 8, 2025, on an aspect of the resurrection of Jesus Christ: humility

Oct 08, 2025 13:45

ZENIT Staff

Ecumenism

First Divisions Appear in the Anglican Church After Appointment of First Woman as Leader

The appointment of Sarah Mullally has sparked great debate and division. Aged 63, married with two children, her election culminates a ten-year process that introduced female ordination into the Anglican Church, first with the priesthood (1992) and then with the episcopate (2014).

Oct 08, 2025 11:47

Rafael Llanes

Local Church

After Announcement of Exhibition of Remains of St. Francis, in Four Days More Than 30 Thousand Have Registered

Friar Giulio Cesareo: It is «demonstration of the people’s love for St. Francis. May it teach us to live more authentic and generous relationships.»

Oct 08, 2025 11:26

ZENIT Staff

Church and World•Local Church•Religious Freedom

European bishops call for EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom

For the bishops, such an appointment is essential considering today’s context, marked by rising religious discrimination and persecution faced by individuals, religious minorities, and faith communities – the majority of whom are Christians – in many countries around the world.

Oct 08, 2025 11:18

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Rome

Rome to host official launch of Religious Freedom Report 2025

The programme will include the participation of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, who will deliver the inaugural address. Victims of religious persecution will also give first-hand testimonies, including two women who spent years on death row for their faith.

Oct 08, 2025 11:11

ZENIT Staff

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1.5 million people attend Pope Leo XIV’s Mass in Lima; tickets available through Ticketmaster; and a “papacopter” in Peru

Beyond the vast crowds and the elaborate security arrangements, its significance may lie in something less measurable: the return of a pastor to a country that helped shape his life, at a moment when its people are looking for reasons to face the future with confidence.

Culture and Its Relationship to the Christian Faith: An Explanation by Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s General Audience, October 28, 2026, on Culture and Its Relationship to the Christian Faith

80,000 People Attend Mass Every Sunday… in the Same Church. Of Which Country Are We Talking About?

The Pope’s homily to consecrated persons on their Jubilee Day in the Holy Year

Netanyahu at the UN: Palestinian Christians Denounce a Lie

Violence at the Washington Cathedral: The Foiled Attack That Exposed America’s Deepening Tensions

The Other Global Shortage: A Hundred Million Christians Still Waiting for a Bible

When Conversion Therapy Meets the First Amendment: A Landmark Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court

On the Exhortation Dilexi te: when Peter reminds us that the poor are at the heart of the Gospel

What do humility, wounds, and the Resurrection have in common? Pope Leo XIV explains it this way

First Divisions Appear in the Anglican Church After Appointment of First Woman as Leader

After Announcement of Exhibition of Remains of St. Francis, in Four Days More Than 30 Thousand Have Registered

European bishops call for EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom

Rome to host official launch of Religious Freedom Report 2025