Church of the Holy Spirit

Eighty-one years after the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated, we remember the millions of lives lost to the Holocaust and focus on preventing the recurrence—in any form—of this form of “hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice”.

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North Korea fired several suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday.

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Cardinal Prefect Victor Fernández opens the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and calls for care and intellectual humility when pronouncing on delicate theological issues.

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, presided over Mass at the Cathedral of Copenhagen as the Papal Legate for the celebrations marking the 12th centenary of the start of Saint Ansgar’s mission in Denmark, and recalled the relevance of the Benedictine monk in a world wounded by new forms of slavery and marked by exclusion and indifference.

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Barham Salih, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, tells Vatican News about his meeting with Pope Leo XIV and the challenges the organization faces in assisting refugees across the globe.

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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle marks 80 years since the establishment of the Diocese of Hong Kong and encourages the more than 400,000 Catholics to “bring hope to society” and become “courageous witnesses of the Lord”.

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A United Nations convoy carrying aid arrives in the Kurdish-majority town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria as a ceasefire between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces continues to hold.

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The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land announce that works are set to begin to restore the “cradle” of Christianity—the place where Jesus was born—in Bethlehem.

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Pope Leo XIV meets officials of the Tribunal of Roman Rota for the inauguration of their judicial year, and urges them to safeguard the truth with rigor but without rigidity and to exercise charity without omission.

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The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity has named the Palestinian organization Taawon as the third honoree of its seventh edition, recognizing the non-profit for its decades-long humanitarian and development work across the region.

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