Vatican news During the Angelus of the Solemnity of the Assumption, Pope Francis entrusts to Mary, Queen of Peace, the concern and pain of the peoples who suffer because of conflicts and war. He recalls the grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza and remembers all the peoples of the Middle East, Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar. By…
Vatican news On the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, leads Mass on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and urges the congregation to ask for the gift of peace in the Middle East. By Adriana Masotti Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the…
Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Iran’s new President, Masoud Pezeshkian, discuss issues of common interest in a phone call, with Cardinal Parolin expressing the Holy See’s deep concern about the risk of an extension of the war in the Middle East. By Vatican News On Monday morning, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State…
Vatican news The Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton OFM, writes to the friars of the Custody to invite them to dedicate the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, to prayer for peace in the Middle East and in the world. By Vatican News The Latin Patriarch of…
Vatican news Ten years after the devastation wreaked by ISIS in the historic region of Upper Mesopotamia, the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul speaks to Vatican News about a careful rebuilding of trust among the region’s people. By Delphine Allaire In June 2014, Mosul and the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq were captured by the Islamic…
Vatican news In this week's news from the Churches of the Orient, produced in collaboration with L'Œuvre d'Orient, a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church is discovered in Israel, Armenia recognizes the State of Palestine and Cardinal Pietro Parolin visits the Church in Lebanon. This week's Oriental News: Discovery of a Byzantine church in the Negev The remains…
Vatican news Pope Francis meets Thursday at the Vatican with King Abdullah II of Jordan, whom Pope Francis has known since the start of his pontificate. Deborah Castellano Lubov Pope Francis received King Abdullah II and his entourage at the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican on Thursday morning. The director of the Holy See Press…
Vatican news Every week we offer you news from the Eastern Churches, in collaboration with L'Œuvre d'Orient. This week's Oriental News: Destruction of Armenian heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh The destruction of Armenian heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh continues. Satellite images from April 4 show the total destruction of St. John the Baptist Church, known as the Kanatch Jam…
On the sidelines of a conference on the Agidae at the Pontifical Urban University, Cardinal Pietro Parolin comments on recent news coming from the Middle East region, saying that everyone is working to avoid an escalation of the conflict. By Salvatore Cernuzio Despite the great concerns about the situation in the Middle East, Cardinal Secretary…
Two grieving fathers, one Israeli Jewish and the other Palestinian Muslim, speak to Vatican News about their meeting with Pope Francis, who thanked them for their testimony of fraternity. By Francesca Sabatinelli and Joseph Tulloch Rami Elhalan is a Jewish Israeli whose 13-year-old daughter, Smadar, was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 1997….