LIMA, Peru: (National Catholic Register) Pope Leo XIV arrived in Peru on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in a spectacular homecoming that drew an estimated three million people to the streets to greet him.

Leo, a U.S. citizen but also a naturalized citizen of the country where he served as a missio

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) The book Stories in Flight: 80 Years of Air Transport in Italy recounts stories of flying with the popes from the perspective of veteran ITA Airways flight attendant Rino Anastasio. Anastasio, 67, has served as a flight attendant coordinator for special

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Human Rights Defender, Lawyer, Founder and International Advocacy Director of LEAD Ministries, has strongly welcomed the intervention of Pakistani Senator Danesh Kumar, who has raised serious concerns before a Senate committee regarding the alleged abduct

Vatican City: (Vatican News) Students from a Catholic school in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago are preparing a "care package" for him as he recovers in hospital following lung surgery.

Local media outlets reported on Wednesday that students at Our Lady of Mount Carme

Lourdes: (Vatican News by Isabella H. de Carvalho) “Mesdames et messieurs, le Pape est à Lourdes!” (“Ladies and gentlemen, the Pope is in Lourdes”). As the speaker pronounces these words the crowd erupts in cheers and starts chanting Pope Leo XIV’s name.

Vatican City: (By Devin Watkins for Vatican News) Pope Leo XIV boarded the papal plane at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Friday, accompanied by journalists and his entourage, at the outset of his Apostolic Journey to France.

The ITA Airways A321 took off at 7:58 AM Rome time and land

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) While papal visits to the “eldest daughter of the Church” were once common — St. John Paul II, for instance, made no fewer than eight apostolic visits between 1980 and 2005 — Leo’s upcoming journey will be the first time a p

LAHORE — The Christian community and legal fraternity are mourning the passing of Liaqat John, Advocate High Court, a senior and respected member of the Christian Lawyers Association of Pakistan (CLAP), who passed away this morning.

The news of his passing has brought profound gri

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) The Catholic Church has documented 304 martyrs in Latin America so far this century. These are men and women killed not only for professing their faith but also for defending the poor, confronting organized crime, and protecting creation.

Their

KASUR, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN — In the quiet, impoverished communities surrounding Pakistan’s brick kilns, hardship is often measured not only in wages and debt, but in the choices families have left when fear enters their lives.

For one Christian woman in Kasur, that choice becam

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) The Holy See said Pope Leo XIV appointed Liu bishop of Datong on Aug. 10 after approving his candidacy under the mechanisms established by the Vatican’s agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops.

The ordination is the third epi

Vatican City: (NCR) Pope Leo XIV has tapped the head of the U.S.-based Knights of Columbus to join the Vatican office responsible for engaging with the Catholic laity and families, continuing a string of high-profile Vatican appointments from the Catholic Church in the United States.

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Vatican City; (National Catholic Register) Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August is for evangelization in the city.

“Roughly half of us live in cities. Jesus himself walked city streets, in Cana, in Jericho, in Jerusalem, and just as in those cities Christ

Sialkot (PCP Staff Reporter) Emmanuel Nawab (Advocate), Central General Secretary of the Christian Awareness Movement, informed local journalists via a press release that a launch ceremony for two Christian books—*Tadeeb-e-Pharaoh* (authored by Tina Myear ) and another authored by Dr. Emman

VATICAN CITY: (OSV News) Pope Leo XIV opened the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate June 26, urging cardinals to help him discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church today and reminding them they are not “guardians of particular interests,” but disciples