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Vatican provides guidelines to help bishops and local churches implement synodality
America Magazine
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July 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the 2024 final document of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the Vatican synod office said. To more...
Devils Lake Altru clinic to open new outpatient dialysis unit next week
Grand Forks Herald - North Dakota
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July 8, 2025
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Next week marks the opening of a new outpatient dialysis unit in Devils Lake, situated in the lower level of an Altru Health System clinic. The 12-chair unit, lit both by indoor lighting and windows to the outside, on Monday,...
The new synod document: A brief guide for busy readers
The Pillar
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July 8, 2025
On Monday, the Vatican released a document offering guidance to Catholics on the latest stage of the global synodal process launched by Pope Francis in 2021. Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass in St. Peter’s Square on May 18, 2025. Credit:...
Pope Leo XIV and Japanese Diplomacy
The Diplomat
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July 8, 2025
Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Vatican date back to the arrival of Francis Xavier (1502–1552) and the subsequent history of the hidden Christians. This is not remembered by the Vatican as a history critical of Japan’s persecution of...
How to Put Development Finance Back on Track
Addis Fortune
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lobal growth this year is expected to slow to its lowest rate (outside of a crisis) since 2008. The outlook is especially problematic for developing countries that are already growing well below historical averages, and for those 35 countries,...
To Tackle Ghana’s Challenges, Vatican-based Cardinal Calls for “true awakening of fraternal solidarity”
ACI Africa
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July 3, 2025
“We do not yield to despair; rather, we embrace the values of our own past and the religions and faiths we pursue, and formulate the types of solutions and situations that best help us all achieve our common good,” he said. Cardinal Turkson went...
How to spend your holidays according to the Popes
Vatican News
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July 8, 2025
As Pope Leo XIV’s takes some time off at the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo from July 6 to 20, Vatican News looks at what past Popes have said about holidays. By Amedeo Lomonaco A break from work to restore physical strength, a chance to...
Synod office provides guidelines to help local churches, bishops implement synodality
Detroit Catholic
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July 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the 2024 final document of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the Vatican synod office said. To more...
The Vatican’s ethical crusade in the age of AI: An interview with Bishop Tighe
Catholic Voice
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July 4, 2025
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, the Vatican has emerged as an influential voice in the global conversation on AI ethics. Advocating for a human-centred approach to technology, the Holy See emphasises the...
Religion news 9 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 8, 2025
Government reaffirms commitment to Freedom of Religion or Belief The UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, David Smith MP, says the UK is making a new commitment to the centrality of FoRB in foreign policy, In a speech at the Foreign...
Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
Religion News Service
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June 30, 2025
(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science....
Catholic Church’s Role in Education, Healthcare Discussed at Pope Leo XIV’s Audience with Equatorial Guinean President
ACI Africa
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July 2, 2025
Vatican, 02 July, 2025 / 4:46 pm (ACI Africa). The Catholic Church’s role in promoting formal education and healthcare in Equatorial Guinea was one of the topics discussed during the June 28 meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the President of the...
World : Jokowi Appears In Bali, Luhut Says Health Condition Improving
Bernama
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July 3, 2025
By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar JAKARTA, July 3 (Bernama) -- Amid speculation surrounding his health, former Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, held an informal meeting with National Economic Council Chairman Luhut Binsar...
At the Vatican, experts challenge the rules of global debt and finance
Religion News Service
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July 2, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Some of the most provocative recent proposals challenging global inequality and international debt are not the work of Ivy League economics departments or Silicon Valley think tanks. They’re coming from inside the Vatican. “I...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
Wichita priest discusses vocation successes at Vatican's Joyful Priests event
American Catholic Tribune
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July 1, 2025
Fr. Benjamin Sawyer of the Diocese of Wichita recently participated in an international event titled "Joyful Priests – I have called you friends," held at Rome’s Auditorium Conciliazione. The event, part of the Jubilee of Priests from June 25-27,...
Presidency Counters Tinubu’s St. Lucia trip as health Vacation
You News Ng
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July 1, 2025
By, Biola Davies Claims that President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s ongoing visit to Saint Lucia is serving as a strategic cover for a discreet medical consultation has been debunked. Peter Obi had swiftly attacked Tinubu’s trip, saying, “this isn’t time...
Children bear ‘heaviest toll’ in growing global conflicts, says Vatican diplomat at UN
OSV News
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June 30, 2025
(OSV News) — Children are among those who bear “the heaviest toll” in the global rise of armed conflict and “the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes,” a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations. “Too many children...
VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown”
Fides
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June 26, 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025 abouna.org Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred...
United Nations warns of dire humanitarian situation in Sudan
Vatican News
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July 8, 2025
The United Nations renews its warnings of a dire situation in Sudan’s North Darfur province, where conflict is causing extreme shortages in food and clean water. By Vatican News Nearly 40 percent of children under 5-years-old are suffering from...