Vatican City: (By Devin Watkins for Vatican News) Pope Leo XIV boarded the papal plane at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Friday, accompanied by journalists and his entourage, at the outset of his Apostolic Journey to France.

The ITA Airways A321 took off at 7:58 AM Rome time and land

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) While papal visits to the “eldest daughter of the Church” were once common — St. John Paul II, for instance, made no fewer than eight apostolic visits between 1980 and 2005 — Leo’s upcoming journey will be the first time a p

LAHORE — The Christian community and legal fraternity are mourning the passing of Liaqat John, Advocate High Court, a senior and respected member of the Christian Lawyers Association of Pakistan (CLAP), who passed away this morning.

The news of his passing has brought profound gri

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) The Catholic Church has documented 304 martyrs in Latin America so far this century. These are men and women killed not only for professing their faith but also for defending the poor, confronting organized crime, and protecting creation.

Their

KASUR, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN — In the quiet, impoverished communities surrounding Pakistan’s brick kilns, hardship is often measured not only in wages and debt, but in the choices families have left when fear enters their lives.

For one Christian woman in Kasur, that choice becam

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) The Holy See said Pope Leo XIV appointed Liu bishop of Datong on Aug. 10 after approving his candidacy under the mechanisms established by the Vatican’s agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops.

The ordination is the third epi

Vatican City: (NCR) Pope Leo XIV has tapped the head of the U.S.-based Knights of Columbus to join the Vatican office responsible for engaging with the Catholic laity and families, continuing a string of high-profile Vatican appointments from the Catholic Church in the United States.

Th

Vatican City; (National Catholic Register) Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August is for evangelization in the city.

“Roughly half of us live in cities. Jesus himself walked city streets, in Cana, in Jericho, in Jerusalem, and just as in those cities Christ

Sialkot (PCP Staff Reporter) Emmanuel Nawab (Advocate), Central General Secretary of the Christian Awareness Movement, informed local journalists via a press release that a launch ceremony for two Christian books—*Tadeeb-e-Pharaoh* (authored by Tina Myear ) and another authored by Dr. Emman

VATICAN CITY: (OSV News) Pope Leo XIV opened the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate June 26, urging cardinals to help him discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church today and reminding them they are not “guardians of particular interests,” but disciples

For thirty years the Middle East Forum has argued one unfashionable proposition: that civilizational threats are not managed, they are ended. We were told this was naïve. Then came the war, thirty-nine days of fire, in which American and Israeli power did to the Iranian war ma

Vatican City: (National Catholic Reporter) The last-minute twist, caused by an engine failure on the Iberia Airlines plane scheduled to take the pope back to Rome June 12, marked an unexpected ending to an otherwise carefully choreographed papal trip. 

Following the pomp and c

Victoria Cardiel: (CNR) Pope Leo XIV’s lunch with Spain’s bishops at the apostolic nunciature in Madrid offered a glimpse of the pope’s more informal and humorous side. 

Yago de la Cierva, who is overseeing the organization of the Pope’s trip to Spain,

WASHINGTON, D.C: Michael Rubin, director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum (MEF), will testify today before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) at a hearing examining the erosion of democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental freedoms in Turkey. 

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV greeted residents and civic leaders in the southern Italian town of Acerra on May 23, a region marred by toxic wastes but possessing what the Pope said was “beauty no injustice can ever erase.” 

“In life, we come to unders