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Vatican cardinal calls Netanyahu ‘a tyrant pursuing a dark and bloody plan for power’
LifeSite
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July 30, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — An Italian cardinal who has worked closely with Pope Leo XIV for several years candidly denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nation’s “unbridled, and illogical evil” being committed against the people of...
Overcrowded Vatican City And Other European Micro Countries Top Overtourism Report
Forbes
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Crowds of visitors line up to enter St. Peter's Basilica. in Vatican City, Rome. getty From monuments and sites such as the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Trevi Fountain in Rome, islands including Santorini and the main Canary islands, to cities...
Pope to bestow one of Catholic Church’s highest honours on John Henry Newman
Express & Star
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July 31, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare St John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honours on the deeply influential 19th century Anglican convert who remains a unifying figure in both the Anglican...
Pope to bestow one of Catholic Church's highest honors on John Henry Newman, an Anglican convert
The Independent
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July 31, 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...
Colonial Theft: How Western Nations are Looting Ukraine's Cultural Treasures
Sputnik News
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July 31, 2025
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250731/colonial-theft-how-western-nations-are-looting-ukraines-cultural-treasures---1122524610.html Colonial Theft: How Western Nations are Looting Ukraine's Cultural Treasures Colonial Theft: How Western Nations are...
Did you know that Louisiana has its own Vatican? This Cajun historian grew up there.
The Advocate - Louisiana
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In rural Lafayette Parish, in one of the most Catholic regions of the country, a little village called Vatican sits on La. 93 between Scott and Cankton. Some of Vatican's principal streets are Vatican Road, Pope Drive and Bishop Street. It's about...
A New Age of the Church?
The Catholic Thing
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July 31, 2025
Christopher Dawson (1889-1970), Catholic convert and eminent historian of culture, despised the tripartite division of both secular and ecclesiastical history into early, medieval, and modern periods. For the Church’s history, by his erudite...
Sisters support defense of Apache sacred site, 'religious freedom for Native Americans'
Global Sisters Report
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With its ancient Emory oaks, canyons and volcanic rock formations, Oak Flat is a place where, in late afternoon, the quiet approach of dusk brings a sense of stillness and serenity, peace and wonder. This high plateau basin in southeastern...
MoU signed between Azerbaijan’s State Committee and Holy See in spotlight of Italian and Vatican media
Azertag
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July 30, 2025
Vatican, July 30, AZERTAC The Italian and Vatican media outlets have extensively covered the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work with Religious Institutions and the Dicastery for Interreligious...
University of Goma to Build Peace Hall in Honour of Congolese Martyr Beatified in Rome
ACI Africa
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July 31, 2025
She invited all University of Goma alumni to “support this meaningful project that embodies the cherished values of the Blessed.” “Holiness, leadership, and commitment can be born on the benches of the University of Goma. It is also a call to all...
Former Vatican auditor seeks legal appeal and papal audience
The Pillar
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July 30, 2025
The former auditor general of the Vatican is requesting an audience with Pope Leo XIV to discuss his wrongful termination lawsuit and share his concerns about Vatican financial institutions. Libero Milone. Pillar file photo. In a series of press...
Cardinal Kikuchi: Youth fighting selfishness are the hope of the Church
Catholic News Agency
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July 30, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 30, 2025 / 13:39 pm President of Caritas Internationalis Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, SVD, praised the Church’s young humanitarians this week for their generous dedication to the world’s poor, saying they are bearers of hope...
Religion news 30 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 30, 2025
Board of Deputies: government must not reward Hamas The Board of Deputies of British Jews says it is seeking clarification that the UK government will not recognise a Palestine state while Hamas fails to meet UK demands, including accepting a...
The Vatican issues a statement and assessment on alleged Marian apparitions at Monte Sant’Onofrio
Zenit
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July 30, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.30.2025).- High in the hills of Molise, near the town of Agnone, a remote and wooded peak named Monte Sant’Onofrio has quietly drawn pilgrims and curiosity-seekers for over a decade. Since 2010, the mountain has been the...
Vatican's Jubilee of Youth draws tens of thousands of Catholics
Inquirer
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July 30, 2025
This handout photo taken on July 29, 2025 and released by the Vatican press office, Vatican Media, shows Pope Leo XIV waving as he unexpectedly arrives in the Pope Mobile to greet pilgrims waiting in St. Peter’s Square, for the launching of the...
Pope Leo expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over deadly attack on church in DR Congo
Crux Now
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July 30, 2025
On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “deep sorrow” over the deadly attack on the church in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which take place the night between July 26 and 27. Islamic State-backed rebels belonging to the...
Vatican reports good profit as Leo tackles its finances
Inquirer
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July 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV —AP VATICAN CITY — The office that manages Vatican investments and real estate on Tuesday reported a profit last year of 62 million euros (around $63 million), up 16 million euros from 2023. It’s one of the best results in years and a...
Vatican OKs only private devotion for alleged Mount St. Onofrio apparitions
The Pillar
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July 29, 2025
The Vatican’s doctrinal office has issued a mixed opinion on alleged Marian apparitions that have occurred in Southern Italy, allowing private acts of devotion but no public worship at the site. Mount St. Onofrio. Credit: Madonna del monte...
Thousands of Catholics head to Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Vatican City 30 July, 2025, 22:15 Pilgrims gather in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica ahead of a general audience celebrated by Pope Leo XIV, at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on July 30, 2025. | AFP Photo Pope Leo XIV...
VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle to “Catholic Influencers”: Let us be “influenced” and changed by the Love of Christ
Fides
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July 29, 2025
VaticanMedia Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To offer salvation to the men and women of all times, God "did not send us a text message, an email, or a document." God "sent his Son, the Word of God who became man," who "became flesh and dwelt among us." To...