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JRS offers aid to displaced migrants amid growing violence in Lebanon

As violence intensifies in Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced around the country, prompting humanitarian organizations to respond urgently to growing needs for shelter, food, and psycho-social support.

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Meet the artist behind the 47 paintings supporting Sister Thea Bowman’s cause for canonization

Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, has 47 paintings inspired by Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman that have been packaged into boxes and sent to Rome for review to advance her cause for canonization.

How the Benedictine monks in Jerusalem are living the war

The abbot of the German-speaking Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem describes the monks' reaction to the outbreak of the war with Iran.

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Monsignor Shea: New counseling center in Phoenix will focus on ‘inestimable dignity’ of human person

A Catholic counseling formation program centered on human dignity will open in the fall as part of a collaboration between the University of Mary and the Diocese of Phoenix.

"We cannot remain silent": UISG to hold global prayer for peace

The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) calls for "prayer, fasting, and action for an unarmed and disarming peace" to take place on Friday, March 6, at 3:30 pm (Rome time). The event will be livestreamed and open to the faithful and all people of goodwill.

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AI companies aim ‘not to help workers, but to replace them'

William Jones of the Future of Life Institute speaks to Vatican News about the current state of AI development, the impact it is already having on human beings, and the role of religion in carving out a positive future for our species.

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South Sudan: The strong condemnation of the Bishops following massacre in Jonglei State

Members of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SSSCBC) have strongly condemned what some UN agencies have described as yet another massacre of innocent civilians in South Sudan’s Jonglei State

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Pope Leo XIV explains the Church’s ‘human and divine dimensions’

The pope’s catechesis focused on the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium, one of the pillars of Vatican II.

Catholic Rwandan opposition leader’s daughter speaks out ahead of her mother’s trial

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza was a wife and mother who had no intention of working in politics, but “it was her heart that was moved for the Rwandan people" that led her to human rights work.

Cardinal Parolin: Preventive wars risk setting the world ablaze

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks to Vatican News about events in the Middle East, warning of a dangerous rise of multipolarism marked by the primacy of power.

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