At twenty-five meters high and weighing around eight tons, the spruce is a gift from two neighbouring municipalities, Lagundo and Val d’Ultimo Photo: Governatorato SCV

Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities living in areas of war or conflict: here is the video

On the eve of his departure for Türkiye and Lebanon, the Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities who live in war-torn or conflict zones. Leo XIV invites them to not feel abandoned and to be “seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.” He then asks all Christians in the world “to not fall into indifference” and to be “builders of unity.”

This is what working hours will be like in the Vatican and the protection against nepotism according to the new Regulations of Leo XIV

The new General Regulation applies to every organism forming the Curia: the Secretariat of State, the dicasteries, the tribunals, and the economic bodies entrusted with the Vatican’s finances. It creates a more coordinated administrative culture, beginning with something as banal — yet long overdue — as shared timetables