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Caritas Internationalis: Famine in Gaza violates Genocide Convention
Posted on 08/25/2025 07:33 AM ()
Caritas Internationalis warns that the man-made famine in Gaza constitutes a flagrant breach of international law, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and calls for urgent global action to uphold human dignity and protect civilian life.
Caritas Pakistan provides aid to the thousands suffering from floods
Posted on 08/25/2025 05:53 AM ()
Caritas Pakistan Executive Director reports that 2,500 flood-affected families—some 17,500 people—are expected to receive aid, in the form of food packages, hygiene kits, and drinking water.
Twenty killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital
Posted on 08/25/2025 04:00 AM ()
Palestinian health officials say that at least 20 people have been killed in strikes on the Nassa Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
Pope commemorates 400th anniversary of first Lithuanian priest in India
Posted on 08/25/2025 02:39 AM ()
Pope Leo XIV commemorates the anniversary and witness of Fr. Andrius Rudamina, a Lithuanian-born Jesuit who traveled more than 5,000 miles to India in 1625 to preach the Gospel.
Pope: Altar servers help lead faithful into sacred Mystery of Mass
Posted on 08/25/2025 01:53 AM ()
Meeting with altar servers from France, Pope Leo XIV laments the country’s lack of priests and upholds the ministry of young people at the altar, saying the dignity of their service helps lead people into the sacred greatness of the Mystery.
Pope Leo XIV to inaugurate Laudato Si’ Village in Castel Gandolfo
Posted on 08/25/2025 01:03 AM ()
Marking the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical Laudato si’, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to open Castel Gandolfo’s Laudato Si’ Village, a place where spirituality, education, and care for creation come together.
Church in Thailand equips seminarians for deaf ministry
Posted on 08/25/2025 00:42 AM ()
The Catholic Church in Thailand is stepping up efforts to strengthen pastoral care for the Deaf, beginning with a training program for seminarians at Fatima Minor Seminary in the Archdiocese of Thare-Nongseng in the northeast of the country.
We remember Pope Pius XII’s call for peace, 86 years on
Posted on 08/24/2025 05:04 AM ()
Exactly 86 years ago, Pope Pius XII appealed for peace in an attempt to help avoid World War Two. His words still resonate today.
The dire situation in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado
Posted on 08/24/2025 02:33 AM ()
More than 50,000 people have been displaced in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in recent weeks following a new wave of terrorist attacks.
Pope prays for Mozambique: that the country’s leaders restore peace and security
Posted on 08/24/2025 01:12 AM ()
After the Sunday Angelus, Pope Leo turns his thoughts to Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province and to Ukraine, urging prayer and closeness for peoples wounded by violence and war.