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Tens of thousands of Catholics head to Vatican's Jubilee of Youth
The Messenger - Kentucky
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Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered on Tuesday in Rome for the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place just over two months...
Pope thrills hundreds of thousands of young Catholics at youth festival
CBS News
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Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics poured into a vast field on Rome's outskirts Saturday for the weekend highlight of the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year: an evening vigil, outdoor slumber party and morning Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV that...
More churches are suing ICE over arrests in places of worship: ‘Congregations have gone underground’
The Independent
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July 29, 2025
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The never-ending ISRAEL-PALESTINE war that murders innocents, children and starving refugees is a moral dilemma of staggering magnitude
Natural News
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July 28, 2025
The never-ending ISRAEL-PALESTINE war that murders innocents, children and starving refugees is a moral dilemma of staggering magnitude What to do? Palestinian terrorists hide in schools, hospitals and refugee camps and shoot missiles at Israel,...
‘Heretical’ nuns appear in court to fight eviction by Catholic Church
The Times
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A community of “heretical” nuns has appeared in court to fight an attempt by the Catholic Church to evict them from a convent. The former Poor Clare sisters insisted on their right to occupy the disputed convent of Belorado, in Spain, despite...
‘Nurture a Culture of Christian Humanism,’ Leo XIV Reminds Digital Influencers
National Catholic Register
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‘It is not simply a matter of generating content but of creating an encounter of hearts,’ the Pope said while sharing three missions or challenges when it comes to evangelizing online. Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday participated in the Mass celebrated in...
Elation as pope arrives by helicopter to open-air youth vigil in Rome
Modern Ghana
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Hundreds of thousands of young faithful cheered Pope Leo XIV Saturday as he arrived by helicopter for an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, in a rock star welcome for the new head of the Catholic Church. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when...
Vatican calls for global push for 2-state solution as death toll in Gaza continues to rise
Middle East Monitor
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July 27, 2025
The Vatican on Saturday called on the international community to work actively toward a two-state solution, saying the worsening crisis in Gaza has made the need for a just and lasting political resolution urgent, Anadolu reports. The Holy See...
Tens Of Thousands In Rome For Vatican's Jubilee Of Youth
International Business Times
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July 29, 2025
Tens of thousands of young Catholics from all over the world gathered on Tuesday in Rome for a week of pilgrimage during the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The mass gathering is taking place just over two...
ISIS Claims Credit For Slaughtering Dozens Of Worshippers In Catholic Church Attack
The Daily Caller
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A rebel group tied to the Islamic State claimed responsibility Monday for the massacre of dozens of Catholic worshippers in the Congo, according to Reuters. The rebel group, identified as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), attacked the church in...
ISIS-affiliated rebels attack a church in the DRC
Rome Reports
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July 29, 2025
More than 40 people have been killed in a Catholic church in Komanda, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As confirmed by the UN mission in the country, the attack was carried out by the armed group ADF, affiliated with ISIS. The UN has urged the...
Games Where You Can Visit Real World Cities
TheGamer
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August 2, 2025
Video games like Grand Theft Auto, Mafia, Just Cause, and Red Dead Redemption prefer to use fake cities inspired by real-world locations, even though their influences can still clearly be felt. Certain locations and landmarks will be exactly like...
Islamic State claims Congo church massacre that killed children at summer camp
Premier Christianity News
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a horrific attack on a Catholic church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where up to 43 people were slaughtered, some of them children taking part in a Christian summer camp. The massacre...
Massacre of faithful ‘in the house of God’ in Congolese church leaves 43 dead
Catholic Standard - Washington D.C.
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At least 43 people, including children, were killed July 27 in a brutal overnight attack on a Catholic church in Komanda in eastern Congo. Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces – an Islamist group linked to the Islamic State group – targeted...
Vatican to host ‘hot priests’ influencers who spread word of God to younger faithful as numbers slump
New York Post
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July 27, 2025
They’re hot under the collar. The Vatican is set to host influencers and missionaries to discuss spreading the church’s message through social media — and is looking for help from some “hot priests” who are turning heads with their bountiful...
The Vatican embraces Catholic influencers: ‘We are the gateway to the faith’
El País
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July 29, 2025
Paula Vega went viral in 2023 when she decided to spend her honeymoon with her husband in Rome to visit Pope Francis. They arrived dressed as bride and groom and carried their marriage certificate. “We wanted his blessing. I told him I was a...
Cardinal Tagle leads Vatican's first Jubilee Mass for Catholic influencers
Philippine STAR
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July 29, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has urged Catholic influencers to be discerning about the power they wield online and to let Jesus' love become their "true fluid of influence," as he led the Mass that celebrates the Catholic...
Pope Leo XIV mobbed by Catholic influencers at Vatican festival
The Independent
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July 29, 2025
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Vatican asked to defrock priest charged with killing homeless man who was set on fire
The Independent
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July 27, 2025
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"Dangerous sign": Vatican Secretary of State on Deadly Attack on Church in Democratic Republic of Congo
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
According to the BBC, members of the ADF stormed a church in the town of Komanda, where they shot dead Catholic worshippers and then looted and burned nearby businesses. Komanda is in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a...