This Will Be the Rome of the 2025 Jubilee: 5G in the Entire City and New Streets and Parking Lots Around the Vatican

Jan 10, 2024 00:35

Jorge Enrique Mújica

More than 1,400 works are underway in the Italian capital in face of the Jubilee of 2025.

Local Church

Report on Christians in the Holy Land: Demography, Percentages, Etc.

At the end of December 2023, the Israeli Office of Statistics counted almost 188,000 Christians, 3,000 more than in 2022, 6,000 more than 2021 and 27,000 more than when Pope Francis visited the country.

Jan 09, 2024 02:05

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Franciscan Friar Is Appointed President of the Italian Government’s Commission for Artificial Intelligence

The appointment, made known by the Under-Secretary of the Presidency of the Italian Government shortly before Christmas 2023, comes into force in early 2024. One of Friar Paolo’s first tasks is the elaboration of a Report on AI for Prime Minister Georgia Meloni

Jan 09, 2024 02:01

ZENIT Staff

Church and World•Local Church

Catholic Church Generates 3% of Spain’s GDP in 2024 Thanks to Its Cultural Patrimony

Goods of cultural interest and religious festivities of tourist interest will have an impact in 2024 and will repeat the 3% of Spain’s GDP, according to economic data published by the Bishops

Jan 09, 2024 00:06

Rafael Llanes

Good News•Local Church•Testimonies

[Photo Gallery] Poignant: Eight Children Make Their First Communion in War-Torn Gaza

Eight children made their First Communion amid ruins, shots and bombs

Jan 08, 2024 01:53

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Pro Life

USA: “9 Days for Life” Unites Hundreds of Thousands in Prayer for the Protection of Life

Sponsored by the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the novena began in 2013 in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade—the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal throughout the United States.

Jan 08, 2024 00:39

ZENIT Staff

A Priest’s 3 Secrets: Leo XIV’s Beautiful Homily (and Task) at His Second Mass for Priestly Ordinations as Pope

The Pope’s Homily on the Occasion of the Priestly Ordinations during the World Day of Prayer for Vocations

The Death Penalty in the U.S.: On the Same Day, Pope Leo XIV and the Trump Administration Weigh In (With Opposing Views)

In 2025, 11 of those states carried out executions. In 2024, 9 states carried out the death penalty, and in 2023, 5

This Will Be the Rome of the 2025 Jubilee: 5G in the Entire City and New Streets and Parking Lots Around the Vatican

Scotland: Church voices concern as government looks into banning ‘conversion practices’

Three Attitudes Pope Puts Forward to Marxists and Christians in the Vatican

Idaho’s life-saving law to come before US Supreme Court

USA: Nationwide Prayer Vigil for Life to Take Place January 18-19

Leading the way: The Holy See, diplomacy, and Vietnam

Campaign launched encouraging people to Give Prayer A Go

Report on Christians in the Holy Land: Demography, Percentages, Etc.

Franciscan Friar Is Appointed President of the Italian Government’s Commission for Artificial Intelligence

Catholic Church Generates 3% of Spain’s GDP in 2024 Thanks to Its Cultural Patrimony

[Photo Gallery] Poignant: Eight Children Make Their First Communion in War-Torn Gaza

USA: “9 Days for Life” Unites Hundreds of Thousands in Prayer for the Protection of Life