Names of more than 50,000 people killed in Gaza by Israel published

Mar 28, 2025 18:30

ZENIT Staff

The names and ID numbers of more than 50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza Photo: Hatem Ali, Archivo

Justice and Peace

Japanese Court dissolves Unification Church: the Moon sect

The Tokyo District Court revoked the religious movement’s status. Founded by Sun Myung Moon, the Church was involved in financial scandals over the years, which emerged following the murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. The Church, which will still be able to operate in Japan, plans to appeal, but it loses its tax benefits in the meantime.

Mar 27, 2025 22:02

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Holy Land

Clashes with the Syrians and Israeli reprisals: The fires that kindle Lebanon

At least seven deaths in a border area. The fragility of a frontier that has long been a free zone for trafficking and illicit trade. Fears of an escalation with the Jewish state and US manoeuvres for ‘normalisation’. In the spirit of the Abu Dhabi declaration, Christians and Muslims celebrate the feast of the Annunciation

Mar 27, 2025 22:00

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

El Salvador: Pope’s Nuncio condemns presence of Anglican “bishopess” (and not only) during important Mass

The Anglican woman bishop was given a prominent role in the ceremony, including participation in the entrance procession, sharing the homily, and being positioned at the altar during the liturgy.

Mar 27, 2025 21:57

Enrique Villegas

Persecuted Christians•Young People

He refused to convert to Islam and was brutally attacked in Pakistan: the case of a young Catholic man

The attack was allegedly related to Waqas’s refusal to convert to Islam after being coerced by Zohaib

Mar 27, 2025 21:53

Maria Lozano

Religious Freedom

U.S. Commission Condemns China’s Religious Repression in 2025 Annual Report

In its 2025 annual report, released on March 25, the commission highlights ongoing persecution, state surveillance, and ideological control, describing religious freedom conditions in China as “among the worst in the world.”

Mar 27, 2025 21:46

ZENIT Staff

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Argentina Prepares to Welcome Leo XIV: Papal Vehicles, a Mass of 2,000 Ministers and a Nation Invited to Rise Together

Toyota Argentina formally handed over the Buenos Aires vehicle to Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach on October 28, at the Kansai dealership, which represented the Holy See in the arrangement. The second vehicle is already in Córdoba, where it is being held under the protection of the National Gendarmerie until the Pope’s activities there

Holiness, beautifully explained by Leo XIV on the Solemnity of All Saints

Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, November 1, 2026

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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
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Names of more than 50,000 people killed in Gaza by Israel published

Church calls on legislature to investigate child sexual abuse in state-run facilities and to treat all victims of abuse equally

Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” sequel to begin filming in August 2025

Pope Francis Calls for a Cultural Shift in Child Protection Within the Church

Result of the German Synodal Way? Half a million Catholics leave the Church, official figures show

Cardinal Parolin gives details on Pope in Vatican and raises juncture for new form of government

Cardinal of Jerusalem: “I don’t know how we are still standing; the situation is against us”

Japanese Court dissolves Unification Church: the Moon sect

Clashes with the Syrians and Israeli reprisals: The fires that kindle Lebanon

El Salvador: Pope’s Nuncio condemns presence of Anglican “bishopess” (and not only) during important Mass

He refused to convert to Islam and was brutally attacked in Pakistan: the case of a young Catholic man

U.S. Commission Condemns China’s Religious Repression in 2025 Annual Report