Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints

New Catholic sports coaching program focuses on mind, body, and soul

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Trump administration's move to end annual hunger report meets criticism The Trump administration is ceasing publishing a report on food insecurity over objections of health groups, anti-hunger activists, and academics. Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the canonization Mass on Oct. 19. Among the new saints is St. José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, known as Venezuela's “the doctor of the poor," St. Peter To Rot, a lay catechist martyred in Papua New Guinea, and St. Bartolo Longo, a former Satanist who had a dramatic conversion and built the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii.

Children from African countries pray rosary ‘for the first time’ in global campaign Children from across Africa joined their peers in the “One Million Children Praying the Rosary” campaign held on Oct. 7, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Poll finds revival of interest in religion in Northern Ireland among young people

A new poll commissioned by the Iona Institute has found a marked revival of interest in religion among young people in Northern Ireland.