Pope Francis, following the recitation of the Marian Prayer and recalling Sea Sunday, also made reference to the Basilica of Hagia Sofia, recently transformed into a mosque.

Pope Francis reflects on the day’s Gospel reading during the Sunday Angelus, describing the Parable of the Sower as the “mother” of all parables.

The Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Cardinal Peter Turkson sends a message celebrating Sea Sunday.

The annual Sea Sunday is being marked this 12 July with many Christian Churches taking part. The day highlights the work seafarers do throughout the year. It also offers an opportunity for people to pray for those at sea and their families.

Beauty creates communion. It unites onlookers from a distance, uniting past, present and future. Pope Francis has recalled this on a number of occasions. The Church has always translated the universality of the Good News into the language of art. From this premise, this dramatic moment in history characterized by uncertainty and isolation, gives rise to this initiative which is a partnership between the Vatican Museum and Vatican News: Masterpieces from the Vatican Collection accompanied by comments from the words of the Popes.

Pope Francis approves the promulgation of decrees concerning 5 candidates to sainthood, including the recognition of a miracle attributed to Italian layperson Maria Antonia Samà, clearing the path for her beatification.

Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Dr Paolo Ruffini will grace Vatican Radio’s English Africa Service webinar on Friday 17 July 2020.

Pope Francis has sent a video message expressing his closeness with priests who live and work among the people of poor neighbourhoods of the Argentine capital.

A reading of the Gospel to understand the present time, according to the words of Pope Francis, following in the footsteps of the most recent Council: this is the time of mercy, even if men and women of today – as St John Paul II affirmed – seem opposed to this word.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decrees that the Basilica of Hagia Sophia will become a mosque once again, following a ruling from the Council of State.

The massacre in Srebrenica 25 years ago was one of the worst acts of brutality since the end of the Second World War. For Pope Saint John Paul II, it was a “crime against humanity” which plunged Europe into “the abyss of abjection.” His appeal, throughout the war in Bosnia, was to do everything possible to “disarm the aggressor.”

Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, celebrated Mass for Catholic congressmen of South Korea at the National Assembly on Thursday.

A quarter of a century has gone by since more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were slaughtered in what had been designated a UN “safe area” in the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the fratricidal war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.

The United Nations launches a new initiative to accelerate efforts to enable people everywhere have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030, in keeping with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Archbishop Thomas Wenski welcomes a pair of US Supreme Court rulings, and explains how they uphold religious liberty and the rights of Catholic institutions.

Members of the Boko Haram terror group have clashed with Nigerian Army troops in a recent ambush attack.

Pope Francis names three new members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, who hail from Chile, Italy, and Nigeria.

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Lagos, Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins, has described as “appalling and reprehensible” the increased cases of the crime of Rape around Nigeria.

The Church in Bangladesh appeals for peace after the slaughter of several political activists in an attack in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the south-east of the country spreads panic and insecurity among local people.

Fr Paul Daisuke Narui SVD, an economist and the Bishop-elect of Nigata in Japan, reflects on how the Church must help make sure post-Covid-19 economic recovery is based on ethical investments that protect the poor and the environment from exploitation and neglect.