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

For thirty years the Middle East Forum has argued one unfashionable proposition: that civilizational threats are not managed, they are ended. We were told this was naïve. Then came the war, thirty-nine days of fire, in which American and Israeli power did to the Iranian war ma

Vatican City: (National Catholic Reporter) The last-minute twist, caused by an engine failure on the Iberia Airlines plane scheduled to take the pope back to Rome June 12, marked an unexpected ending to an otherwise carefully choreographed papal trip. 

Following the pomp and c

Victoria Cardiel: (CNR) Pope Leo XIV’s lunch with Spain’s bishops at the apostolic nunciature in Madrid offered a glimpse of the pope’s more informal and humorous side. 

Yago de la Cierva, who is overseeing the organization of the Pope’s trip to Spain,

WASHINGTON, D.C: Michael Rubin, director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum (MEF), will testify today before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) at a hearing examining the erosion of democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental freedoms in Turkey. 

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV greeted residents and civic leaders in the southern Italian town of Acerra on May 23, a region marred by toxic wastes but possessing what the Pope said was “beauty no injustice can ever erase.” 

“In life, we come to unders

Vatican City: (NCR) Pope Leo XIV meets with those awaiting confirmation from the Archdiocese of Genoa, Italy, on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at the Vatican. (photo: Vatican Media) 

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LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Pope Leo XIV challenged Angola’s leaders to break the “cycle of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries as he arrived in the southern African country on Saturday with a message of encouragement for its long-suffering people.<

Vatican City: (NCR) Pope Leo XIV has named a trio of Catholic academics and the head of a church-based center for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be among the new members of the Vatican's office on Catholic social doctrine.

The Vatican announced the pope's new appointments

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) On the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Leo XIV met last week with some of his eighth grade classmates from St. Mary of the Assumption lower school in south Chicago, where he grew up.

Of the 82 eighth graders with whom he atten

Vatican City: (National Catholic Reporter) As the U.S. and Israel-Iran war enters its fourth week, and amid a deep humanitarian crisis throughout the region, Pope Leo XIV appealed during his Sunday Angelus prayer March 22: "Persevere in prayer, so that hostilities may cease and paths of peac

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will travel a total of more than 11,000 miles on 18 flights across four African countries in April on a 10-day trip that highlights peace efforts, the works of mercy, and the Catholic Church’s vibrant presence on the continent.

The Vatican rele

Pakistan: Sardar Mushtaq Gill, founder of LEAD Ministries, has welcomed the recommendation made by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urging the United States Department of State to redesignate Pakistan as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to severe a