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Ministry thanks the Vatican for Typhoon Danas donation
Taipei Times
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July 30, 2025
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday on behalf of the government and the public expressed sincere thanks to the Dicastery for the Service of Charity for a US$50,000 donation in support of disaster relief efforts following Typhoon Danas, which...
Thousands of Catholics head to Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Vatican City 30 July, 2025, 22:15 Pilgrims gather in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica ahead of a general audience celebrated by Pope Leo XIV, at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on July 30, 2025. | AFP Photo Pope Leo XIV...
Vatican's Jubilee of Youth draws tens of thousands of Catholics
Inquirer
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July 30, 2025
This handout photo taken on July 29, 2025 and released by the Vatican press office, Vatican Media, shows Pope Leo XIV waving as he unexpectedly arrives in the Pope Mobile to greet pilgrims waiting in St. Peter’s Square, for the launching of the...
Pope Leo makes surprise appearance as 120,000 youth gather in Rome for Vatican jubilee
Malay Mail
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July 30, 2025
VATICAN CITY, July 30 — Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered yesterday in Rome for the Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth—an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place...
The Vatican’s Catholic influencer Jubilee is worth celebrating—and scrutinizing
America Magazine
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July 29, 2025
With smartphones and ring lights in hand, a new group of pilgrims arrived at the Vatican this week. The Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers, part of the church’s celebration of the Jubilee Year of Hope, marks the growing...
Tackling Africa’s Wildlife Crimes From The Religious Front
Religion Unplugged
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The Book of Genesis 1:26 says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that...
Tens of thousands of Catholics head to Vatican's Jubilee of Youth
The Messenger - Kentucky
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Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered on Tuesday in Rome for the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place just over two months...
Tens Of Thousands In Rome For Vatican's Jubilee Of Youth
International Business Times
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July 29, 2025
Tens of thousands of young Catholics from all over the world gathered on Tuesday in Rome for a week of pilgrimage during the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The mass gathering is taking place just over two...
‘Enough is enough,’ say Global South bishops in climate letter
USCatholic
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July 29, 2025
When the encyclical Laudato Si’ (On Care for our Common Home) was released in 2015, I had high hopes that the Catholic Church in the United States would finally embrace environmental justice and care for creation. I remember the morning after its...
Pope Leo XIV mobbed by Catholic influencers at Vatican festival
The Independent
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July 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Vatican asked to defrock priest charged with killing homeless man who was set on fire
The Independent
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July 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Azerbaijan, Vatican Strengthen Global Interfaith Ties With New Agreement (PHOTO)
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. The "Memorandum of Understanding in the Field of Interreligious Dialogue between the State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions of Azerbaijan and the Dicastery of the Holy See for...
Azerbaijan, Vatican sign MoU on interreligious dialogue -
APA
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Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue of the Holy See signed a Memorandum of Understanding on interreligious dialogue, the Committee told APA. The memorandum envisages the...
Azerbaijan, Vatican strengthen global interfaith ties with new agreement
Olaylar
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July 28, 2025
17:06 En The "Memorandum of Understanding in the Field of Interreligious Dialogue between the State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions of Azerbaijan and the Dicastery of the Holy See for Interreligious Dialogue" was signed today, a...
The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens
The New Yorker
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July 28, 2025
When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer residence—a seventeenth-century palazzo in...
Wars that annihilate peoples and the “Tranquillitas Ordinis” of Saint Augustine
Fides
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July 30, 2025
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 VaticanMedia by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OFMConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month has passed since the ceasefire came into effect, and we are still far from a peace agreement. Everything suggests that,...
Pope Leo XIV’s 30 July, 2025 general audience
The Catholic Weekly
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July 31, 2025
Pope Leo XIV talks to visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican July 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) This is the text of the catechesis and appeal from Pope Leo XIV’s 30 July, 2025 general audience given in...
Song satirist and mathematician who wrote ‘The Vatican Rag’ dies at 97
AL.com - Alabama
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July 27, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was...
Cardinal Kikuchi: Youth fighting selfishness are the hope of the Church
Catholic News Agency
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July 30, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 30, 2025 / 13:39 pm President of Caritas Internationalis Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, SVD, praised the Church’s young humanitarians this week for their generous dedication to the world’s poor, saying they are bearers of hope...
Archbishop Ssemogerere calls for youth empowerment in climate change fight
Independent (Uganda)
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July 27, 2025
Lawrence Mukasa, Bishop of Kasana-Luwero Diocese, speaks with Paul Ssemogerere, Archbishop of Kampala, shortly after the conclusion of the three day Laudato Si’ Africa Conference held at BLI in Luwero on Friday, July 25, Kampala, Uganda | THE...