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Humanitarian development aid expert and diplomat, Dr. Daniel Solymári, reflects on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica humanitas as a powerful social and synodal appeal to see the world from the perspective of the poor, refugees, war victims. He also highlights how the text calls to place justice, fraternity, and peace at the heart of public life.

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On the occasion of the Eid al-Adha celebration, observed this week, by the Muslim community, Cardinal Ignace Dogbo Bessi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan and President of the Episcopal Commission for Ecumenism, Biblical Apostolate, and Interreligious Dialogue, sent a message of fraternity to the Ivorian Muslim community. In his address, the prelate emphasized that religions should remain forces of peace, reconciliation, and social cohesion.

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In an interview with Vatican News, Adjunct Professor Susan Pascoe at the Australian Catholic University, the second Inclusive Governance in a Synodal Church Symposium and looks ahead to its fruits for the future.

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Pope Leo XIV sends his blessing to organizers and participants in the 24th “One Heart, One Spirit” worship concert in Rzeszów, Poland, on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, one of the country’s largest and most recognizable evangelization initiatives.

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Pope Leo XIV thanks German Catholic Student Associations for letting themselves be defined by their Catholic faith, which he said is to be lived "without compromising with the trends of the moment, without placing individualistic preferences ahead of the common Tradition of the Church."

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Nine Salesians murdered by the German Nazis during the Second World War will be beatified on June 6 at the Shine of St. John Paul II in Kraków, where the future Pope witnessed the arrest of some of the future martyrs, whose testimony of faith and priestly fidelity may have played a role in the development of his own vocation.

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Our Editorial Director reflects on the challenges of Pope Leo XIV's Apostolic Journey to Spain on the centenary of the death of Venerable Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Sagrada Família, which will see the Pope visit Madrid, Barcelona, and the Canary Islands.

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The Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land says he is “deeply shocked and horrified" by the arrest of a Lutheran student at Birzeit University.

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In a letter to the cardinals who will take part in the meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the end of June, Cardinal Re outlines the themes of the four working sessions to be held in the Paul VI Hall and the Synod Hall.

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In the wake of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas” one of Africa’s leading voices in artificial intelligence reiterates his conviction that Africans must not be excluded in global discussions regarding the development of AI.

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