California’s Democratic government removes statue of Saint Junípero Sierra after lying about consulting the Archbishop of San Francisco

Nov 04, 2025 10:09

ZENIT Staff

The story of the statue itself reflects California’s shifting relationship with its past. Photo: Joseph Previtali

Religious Freedom

India’s Supreme Court Questions Anti-Conversion Law, Reasserting the Nation’s Secular Soul

At issue is the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, introduced by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist government

Nov 01, 2025 12:01

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Vatican City

Journalist slanders Cardinal Becciu and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Vatican court finds him guilty

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, which supervises the Church’s complex processes of beatification and canonization, reacted swiftly to the judgment, describing it as a “necessary act of justice.”

Oct 31, 2025 18:08

Valentina di Giorgio

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Young People

Report shows that young Americans attend religious services more than their parents

The numbers may be modest, but the implications are far-reaching. For years, sociologists and church leaders alike have worried that Christianity in America was entering a phase of irreversible decline

Oct 31, 2025 18:05

Tim Daniels

Good News•Local Church

The world’s largest Orthodox cathedral is inaugurated: one of its most important benefactors was Saint John Paul II

When Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999 — the first papal visit to an Orthodox-majority country since the Great Schism — he donated $200,000 to support the construction of the future national cathedral. The funds were later used to help purchase the cathedral’s bells, manufactured in Austria and blessed in 2018

Oct 31, 2025 18:02

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Local Church

Basilica of the Holy Family Becomes the Tallest Church in Europe

With the placement of the lower arm, the tower of Jesus of the Holy Family church reaches a height of 162.91 meters

Oct 31, 2025 12:06

ZENIT Staff

Leo XIV, Putin’s rejection of the Christmas truce, and disappointment with the Democratic governor of Illinois

Speaking on the evening of December 23, Leo XIV returned repeatedly to a single theme that framed his reflections: the meaning of life, human dignity, and the possibility of peace—even if only for a day.

Germans trust Leo XIV more than Islam: new survey results released

Data released from a representative Forsa poll indicate that 28 percent of Germans now say they place high or very high trust in the Pope

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California’s Democratic government removes statue of Saint Junípero Sierra after lying about consulting the Archbishop of San Francisco

Nine diocesan priests begin novitiate in the Priestly Fraternities of St. Dominic

Trump threatens military intervention in Nigeria over the serious killing of Christians in the country

JD Vance (Catholic vice president of the USA) and his desire for his wife to convert to Catholicism

Cuba: Hurricane destroys the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre

Pope Leo XIV Grants Plenary Indulgence for Schoenstatt Centennial Pilgrims

Eleven Priests Martyred by Communism and Nazism To Be Beatified Following Authorization by Pope Leo XIV

India’s Supreme Court Questions Anti-Conversion Law, Reasserting the Nation’s Secular Soul

Journalist slanders Cardinal Becciu and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Vatican court finds him guilty

Report shows that young Americans attend religious services more than their parents

The world’s largest Orthodox cathedral is inaugurated: one of its most important benefactors was Saint John Paul II

Basilica of the Holy Family Becomes the Tallest Church in Europe