Category: International News

More than 1800 young Chaldean Christians from seven archdioceses and more than 60 parishes gathered in Ankawa in Iraq from 29 June to 1 July.

The Vietnamese government will allow the Vatican to appoint a resident representative in the communist country, following years of fraught diplomatic relationships between the two states.

The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has urged parishes across Ireland to dedicate 30 per cent of their church grounds for biodiversity and pollinators so grounds can be enjoyed ‘in perpetuity by the whole community.’

The first world meeting of digital evangelisers and missionaries was held on 4 August at the Catholic Influencers Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

Eucharistic processions were held in many cities across the United States in celebration of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, 11 June, a more than 700-year-old feast day that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Sudan is in the front line again as the country is engulfed in war. Church leaders are among those calling for peace as desperate people try to survive the latest catastrophe.

While recuperating from his abdominal surgery earlier this month, Pope Francis was particularly grateful for messages and drawings received from children receiving treatment in the Gemelli Hospital’s paediatric oncology department. 

University of Notre Dame Australia research academic Tracey Rowland has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), becoming the second Australian to receive the honour.

Pope Francis has expressed the hope that the 2024 Olympic Games in France will be an opportunity for ‘an authentic impulse of fraternity which the world needs so badly’.

Henri Didon, a famous 19th century Dominican friar in France, was the person who first came up with the Olympic motto Faster, Higher, Stronger (Citius, Altius, Fortius).