Vatican News
- April 28, 2024 - 1:14pm
Pope Francis makes a pastoral visit to the northern Italian city of Venice on 28 April. He first visits with inmates at the Giudecca Women’s Prison facility, followed by a meeting with curators and artists of the Holy See’s Pavilion for the 60th Venice Biennale. Then he meets with young people at the Basilica of St. Mary of Good Health, followed by Mass in St. Mark’s Square, the recitation of the Regina Coeli, and a visit in the Basilica of St. Mark to venerate the relics of the Saint.
- April 28, 2024 - 12:47pm
As Pope Francis concludes his visit to the Italian city of Venice, our correspondent, Deborah Castellano Lubov, brings us the festive atmosphere after his Mass in St. Mark's Square and reflects on the day's impact.
- April 28, 2024 - 11:59am
Pope Francis invokes the intercession of Our Lady for the many situations of suffering in the world, turning his attention in particular to Haiti where a transitional Council has just been asked to appoint a new head of government.
- April 28, 2024 - 10:27am
Presiding at Mass amidst the grandeur of St. Mark's Square in Venice, Pope Francis issues a call for encounter, inclusion, and care for our common home, noting that beauty must be available to all.
- April 28, 2024 - 9:07am
As he visits the Italian city of Venice, Pope Francis urges young people to make themselves a gift for other people by focusing on how we can help someone else instead of complaining about being alone or misunderstood.
- April 28, 2024 - 9:01am
Pope Francis's first stop on his Sunday pastoral visit to Venice takes him to the Giudecca Women’s Prison, where he told them them he very much wanted to meet them right at the start of his visit to tell them they hold a special place in his heart.
- April 28, 2024 - 7:55am
Addressing artists in the Giudecca's women's prison facility in Venice, Pope Francis invites everyone to imagine a world where no human being is considered a stranger.
- April 27, 2024 - 7:00pm
As the Italian city of Venice prepares to welcome Pope Francis on Sunday morning, our correspondent Deborah Castellano Lubov offers us a look ahead at the Pope’s scheduled events on the sidelines of the Venice Art Biennale.
- April 27, 2024 - 4:44pm
An event at the Marconi Museum inside the Vatican on Saturday celebrates 150 years since the birth of the man who set up Vatican Radio. Present, alongside the Prefect and directors of the Dicastery for Communications, were also Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and Guglielmo Marconi’s grandson.
- April 27, 2024 - 3:19pm
British troops could be positioned on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new maritime route.
- April 27, 2024 - 12:31pm
Pope Francis meets the community of the Seminary of Burgos, Spain, and urges it to fill Spain’s depopulated rural areas with God by freeing themselves from “false human securities.”
- April 27, 2024 - 12:05pm
On the eve of Pope Francis’ pastoral visit to Venice, Archbishop Francesco Moraglia reflects on the significance of his meeting with inmates at the city’s Giudecca prison, “a place of expiation and rebirth, but also a place of art” as it hosts the Holy See’s Pavilion at the Contemporary Art Biennale.
- April 27, 2024 - 10:44am
Pope Francis meets with participants in an event promoted by the Great Age Foundation, and says intergenerational love has the power to transform society and impart wisdom.
- April 26, 2024 - 6:31pm
Reports on Israeli television suggest Israel is expected to begin evacuating civilians from Rafah ahead of a planned ground attack.
- April 26, 2024 - 5:59pm
Pope Francis will take part in the upcoming G7 session on Artificial Intelligence under Italy’s presidency of the group.
- April 26, 2024 - 4:14pm
The baby girl who was brought into the world thanks to an emergency cesarean delivery while her mother died from injuries inflicted by Israeli bombs, has herself died. About 15,000 children have died in Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.
- April 26, 2024 - 4:05pm
- April 26, 2024 - 2:49pm
The newly released Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) says that 2023 saw a further increase of 24 million people experiencing an acute lack of food from 2022 and points to armed conflicts as the driving factor of food insecurity.
- April 26, 2024 - 1:12pm
Ten years ago, Pope Francis canonized Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II during Mass in St Peter’s Square. Living in times of great historical upheaval, the beloved pontiffs bore witness to the hope and joy that comes from an encounter with Jesus.
- April 26, 2024 - 12:55pm
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) calls on Nicaraguan authorities to reopen dialogue with civil society and restore democratic institutions and fundamental freedoms to overcome the human rights crisis that the Central American country has been experiencing since April 2018.