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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...
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...
Vatican asked to defrock priest charged with killing homeless man who was set on fire
The Independent
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July 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
From hymn books to hashtags
The Express Tribune
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August 3, 2025
PUBLISHED August 03, 2025 In the region of Pakistani Punjab, particularly in urban centre's such as Lahore, Sialkot, Sheikhupura, and Faisalabad, Christian hymnody has undergone a transformative process, emerging as a hybrid and multilingual...
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...
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...
Dramatic entrance: Young Catholics give rock star welcome to Pope Leo at vigil
RTL Today
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August 3, 2025
The Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth reached its peak on Saturday with a night-time vigil on the outskirts of Rome, drawing a global crowd and placing Pope Leo XIV at the centre of a Church-wide mobilisation. Hundreds of thousands of young faithful...
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
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
"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...
Watch on EWTN: 3 Programs About St. John Vianney Will Change Your Life
National Catholic Register
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EWTN is celebrating in a big way by airing three programs about the saint. St. John Vianney’s feast day is Monday, Aug. 4, and EWTN is celebrating in a big way by airing three programs about the saint. The lineup begins with Saints of Europe: St....
How Pope Leo XIV Can Influence Catholic Church’s New Social Media Missionaries
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
“Evangelization in the modern world,” he concluded, “must find the appropriate means for redirecting public attention away from spectacle and into mystery.” ‘Digital missionaries’ Almost 13 years later, the popularity of social media has...
Conclave Director Tackles Gambling In Ballad Of A Small Player: ‘The Casino Is Like Our New Church’
Empire
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In recent years, Edward Berger has emerged as a major cinematic player. The Swiss-Austrian filmmaker hit big at the Oscars with his 2022 adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front, and last year made waves with his Papal thriller Conclave, a...
Over 40 Christians killed in ISIS-linked terrorist attack on Congolese Catholic church
LifeSite
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July 29, 2025
News Nine children were among the dead after an assault by Allied Democratic Forces terrorists on the Catholic Parish of Blessed Anuarite during a prayer vigil. KOMANDA, Congo (LifeSiteNews) — More than 43 civilians, including nine children, were...
ISIS-backed rebels kill dozens of Christians at church vigil in Democratic Republic of Congo
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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July 28, 2025
Three Congolese ride a motorbike and carry a cross for a grave along the road linking Mangina to Beni on August 23, 2018, in Mangina, in the North Kivu province. | JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty ImagesIslamic State-backed rebels killed 38 worshippers...
Vatican offers plan to implement synodality
Southern Cross - California
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July 26, 2025
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — 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. (The...
‘He is keeping his cards close to his chest’: Pope Leo’s first three months
The Guardian
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August 3, 2025
A few days after his election as pope in May, Leo XIV stepped into a chauffeur-driven black Volkswagen minivan with tinted windows and made a surprise visit to the international headquarters of the Augustinian order in Rome. Not only was he the...