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Collection for the Holy Land: Christians need concrete hope, not just consoling words

Now more than ever, the Christian minority in the Holy Land needs the support it receives through the
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Vatican secretary of state urges end to Iran war, warns of escalation

Cardinal Pietro Parolin said he would tell Trump and Israel to “stop as soon as possible.” Cardinal Pietro

Nigerian bishops tell the pope: Our people are dying

As Christians in their country suffer increased persecution, the Nigerian bishops bring the hopes of a nation to

Pope Leo XIV: ‘Each baptized person is an active agent of evangelization’

The pope’s message at the general audience focused on the “communion of the faithful” as taught in the
Pope Leo at Wednesday's General Audience on March 18, 2026. Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: “War Is Not a Spectacle”

Vaticano updates: from the responsibility of journalists in times of war to safeguarding in the Church, major legal

Holy See calls on UN to eradicate surrogacy ‘in all its forms’

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations, laid out the economic reasons surrogacy

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