Vatican News
- March 19, 2024 - 11:00am
Pope Francis releases his message for the 61st World Day of Prayer for Vocations, celebrated on April 21, and urges Christians to welcome our shared vocation to sow the seeds of hope and peace in our world.
- March 18, 2024 - 5:18pm
We have arrived to the last episode of our visit to Sri Lanka with the MAGIS Foundation. What emerges is a vital Church, striving for full religious freedom and still waiting for answers on the 2019 Easter attacks, while struggling to overcome ongoing clericalism in its ranks.
- March 18, 2024 - 3:10pm
The German Embassy to the Holy See holds a presentation to mark the publication of a booklet by the Herder-Verlag, entitled “God's Strong Daughters – Women and Offices in Catholicism Worldwide,” focusing on the ongoing Synod on synodality and the "question of women’s rights.”
- March 18, 2024 - 2:13pm
The Israeli military has launched a raid in al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.
- March 18, 2024 - 2:10pm
The Catholic charity organization urges candidates in EU elections to prioritize policies that reflect the European values of solidarity, respect of human and social rights and global justice.
- March 18, 2024 - 2:00pm
Vatican Media presents a Christmas story by Dale Recinella, a former Wall Street finance lawyer who, along with his wife Susan, acts as a chaplain for death row prisoners in Florida.
- March 18, 2024 - 1:40pm
Welcoming Pope Francis' indications to join three Jesuit-run Pontifical Universities into a single entity, the Pontifical Gregorian University explains the new configuration of the University with the new Statutes entering into force on 19 May 2024.
- March 18, 2024 - 1:39pm
The United Nations children’s agency says 7.5 million children in Syria are in need of humanitarian assistance.
- March 18, 2024 - 1:33pm
The 19th of March, solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, is a special day to celebrate the gift of St Joseph to the universal Church and to pray in particular for all men.
- March 18, 2024 - 1:10pm
The third edition of the “Paris African Book Fair” opened Friday, 15 March 2024 at the town hall of the 6th arrondissement, Place Saint-Sulpice, in the French capital. Since its launch in 2021, the Fair has become a popular event of exchange, reflection and debate. The initiative aims to celebrate and further promote African literature and pay tribute to African writers, poets, publishers as well as writers of African descent.
- March 18, 2024 - 11:45am
As Pope Francis once again calls for prayers for Syria, Vincent Gélot, regional manager of L'Œuvre d'Orient, speaks to Vatican News about the sufferings of the Syrian people and their bitterness at having been forgotten.
- March 18, 2024 - 10:25am
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in a presidential vote, while thousands protested against his “authoritarian rule,” polling stations were set ablaze, and neighboring Ukraine carried out deadly drone strikes.
- March 18, 2024 - 10:14am
On the banks of the Amazon River, the "Papa Francisco" hospital boat tends to some 5,200 people’s health and spiritual needs, which Sister Marcia Lopes Assis serves aboard in the Juruti-Pará region of the Amazon forest in Brazil.
- March 18, 2024 - 9:10am
"Roll up your sleeves and serve with competence" was the slogan of the 30th International Conference of Hospitallers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta which concluded Sunday in Krakow, Poland.
- March 17, 2024 - 11:26am
During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis expresses satisfaction over the release of a teacher and four of six religious kidnapped in Haiti. He appeals for release of those still held, and he offers prayers for war-torn Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, South Sudan, and Syria.
- March 17, 2024 - 11:12am
Pope Francis reflects on the Gospel of the Fifth Sunday of Lent during his weekly Angelus address.
- March 16, 2024 - 9:12pm
In a video message to the Confraternities of Mérida, Spain, Pope Francis recalls how Holy Week is "a time of grace" to be dedicated to prayer and to our brothers and sisters most in need.
- March 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Syria's rebel-held northwest to mark 13 years since pro-democracy protests swept the country.
- March 16, 2024 - 1:59pm
As the Church marks the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Jenny Kraska, offers her thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under the theme: "Transformative Power of Friendship".
- March 16, 2024 - 1:44pm
The Pope sends his heartfelt condolences to Metropolitan Yoan, the Holy Synod and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the passing away of Patriarch Neofit.