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Young people participate in the Mass for the first World Children’s Day in May 2024.

Pope places Pontifical Committee for World Children’s Day within Dicastery for the Laity

Aug 13, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Pope Leo XIV has decided that the Pontifical Committee for World Children’s Day should be incorporated within the Dicastery for... Read more

Pope Leo greets pilgrims during the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly on Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV to families: Be missionaries of the Gospel who walk with other families

Jun 2, 2025

By Kristina Millare

In the Holy Father’s message he said the Church needs to be farsighted in discerning the needs of parents and... Read more

A detail from a graphic promoting the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life campaign.

Vatican dicastery urges youngsters to share wisdom of elderly people facing Christmas alone

Nov 27, 2020

A Vatican dicastery launched a new campaign Friday urging young people to share wisdom gleaned from the elderly facing Christmas... Read more

A detail from a graphic promoting the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life campaign.

Vatican dicastery launches ‘send a hug’ campaign for elderly isolated by pandemic

Jul 27, 2020

The Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life launched a new campaign Monday urging young people to “send a hug”... Read more

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The Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington D.C.

ICE arrests take toll on DC churches

Syrian Minister of Culture Mohammed Saleh with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali inside St. Ananias Orthodix Church in Damascus, Syria. Billah Al-Assali performed an Islamic hymn with lyrics that directly contradict Christian beliefs.

Syrian minister of culture sparks controversy with Islamic chant in Orthodox church

Bernhard Scholz is president of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, also known as the Rimini meeting, which offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religions and walks of life each year during the last week of August to the town of Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast.

Pope Leo XIV calls for a ‘great cultural conversion’ in his greeting to Rimini meeting

James Dobson during an event marking the National Day of Prayer in the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C.

James Dobson, promoter of family values in the public square, dies at 89

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025.

Bishop Barron warns about fake AI videos impersonating him

Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025

Knock Shrine in Ireland draws pilgrims with confessions, healings, and message of hope

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV calls for fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas Capitol.

Federal judge blocks Texas from displaying Ten Commandments in public schools

View of the Greek island of Syros.

Greek prosecutors charge Catholic clerics, civilians in 3 million euro embezzlement case

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