Following weeks of settler attacks on the last entirely Christian village in Palestine, the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, Fr. Ibrahim Faltas, makes an impassioned plea for peace.

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Three young seminarians from Mexico are volunteering at the Laudato Si' Village at Castel Gandolfo this summer and are helping to bring Pope Francis’ ecological dream to life—now being carried forward by Pope Leo XIV.

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The second season of the MISSION POSSIBLE Youth Social Hackathon concluded on Sunday, July 13, with powerful pitches, proud mentors, and a renewed sense of hope in the capacity of young people to shape a better world.

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Bishop Bohdan Manyshyn, head of Military Chaplaincy for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, explains his office's various initiatives to support soldiers returning from the front or those who have lost loved ones.

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Following a weekend of anti-migrant violence in Torre Pacheco, Spain, marked by far-right attacks on North African youths, the Bishop of Cartagena condemns the unrest and calls for peace, coexistence, and Christian witness in the face of rising tensions.

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Fr. Lowrent Kamwanza of the Missionaries of Africa tells Vatican News that safeguarding children and vulnerable persons against all forms of abuse is an ongoing process of conversion, formation and accountability.

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St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon. Her mother was an Algonquin, who was captured by the Mohawks and who took a Mohawk chief for her husband. She contracted smallpox as a four-year-old child which scarred her skin. The scars were a source of humiliation in her youth. She was commonly seen wearing a blanket to hide her face. Worse, her entire family died during the ...

UN agencies warn of imminent collapse as bombings, hunger and forced displacement continue.

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A security officer is killed and 3 seminarians are kidnapped in an armed attack at the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Edo State, Nigeria.

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For five weeks on Flores Island, 26 parishes partake in processions and prayers ahead of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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