After 500 years, Dublin officially has a cathedral approved by Pope Leo XIV

The Tallest Image of Our Lady of Fatima Was Inaugurated in Brazil’s Most Catholic City.

Rafael Manuel Tovar

The inaugural celebration included a Mass in front of the giant image, which was then blessed. Musical performances followed, featuring Sisters Raquel and Patricia, and Father Fabio de Mello, with great devotion and joy from the people in attendance.

A group linked to Israel is behind a charter plane taking Palestinians to South Africa

ZENIT Staff

A report by the Haaretz newspaper revealed the involvement of Al-Majd Europe, an NGO with phoney headquarters, commissioned by Israel’s Voluntary Emigration Bureau and COGAT to organise departures from Gaza as part of a broader scheme to resettle Palestinians, who were unaware of their final destination. Previous flights also reached Indonesia and Malaysia via Romanian airlines.

1 Catholic priest and 25 secondary school girls kidnapped in Nigeria

Elizabeth Owens

The Archdiocese of Kaduna, shaken but accustomed to issuing such statements, urged the country to unite in prayer for the safe return of all those abducted. But in Nigeria—a nation that has lived with kidnappings for ransom on a massive scale for more than a decade—prayer is only one element of a painfully familiar ritual

Pope Leo XIV Asks Religious Superiors to Rotate in Positions of Authority

Rafael Llanes

The Pope outlined «three important attitudes: ecclesial discernment, careful decision-making processes, and a commitment to accountability for one’s work and to evaluating its results and methods.»

How to prevent all forms of abuse and how to be accountable: Pope Leo XIV puts dignity as the starting point

ZENIT Staff

Message of the Holy Father to Participants in the Meeting “Building Communities that Safeguard Dignity” promoted by the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

Pope Leo XIV: a desire, a conviction, and a pastoral perspective on the Bible

ZENIT Staff

Address of the Pope to the Steering Committee of the Catholic Biblical Federation (CBF)

Germany: Initiative to name street after Benedict XVI meets with opposition

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Yet the proposal has ignited objections from survivor advocacy groups who argue that public spaces should not memorialize figures whose legacies, they say, are inseparable from the systemic mishandling of abuse cases within the Catholic Church

Vatican to announce decision on female deacons soon, according to revelations

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Two separate study bodies are now working in parallel. One is tasked with evaluating how women participate in the life, mission, and governance of the Church writ large. The other, more narrowly focused, is examining the historical, theological, and pastoral dimensions of a possible female diaconate

Vatican publishes interim reports on controversial issues arising from the previous synod on synodality

ZENIT Staff

The documents presented here – prepared between the summer and autumn of 2025 – reflect the current progress of the work, highlighting both the synodal method that animates them and the concrete steps taken to put it into practice

This is what the study says, which shows a growing wave of anti-Christian persecution in Europe

Jorge Enrique Mújica

The Vienna-based observatory has documented 2,211 anti-Christian hate crimes committed in 2024, a figure assembled by triangulating police data, OSCE/ODIHR reports, and its own independent research to avoid duplications

The percentage of people who consider religion important in their lives is falling, according to a US study

Tim Daniels

According to Gallup’s latest findings, fewer than half of Americans—49 percent—say religion remains important to their daily lives. Ten years ago, that figure stood at 66 percent

After 500 years, Dublin officially has a cathedral approved by Pope Leo XIV

Elizabeth Owens

Archbishop Farrell told worshippers that the Pope had responded “with great joy” to his request, submitted as part of the bicentenary celebrations. By removing the “Pro” designation, León XIV not only stabilized the cathedral’s canonical identity but also placed a symbolic cornerstone at the center of a city undergoing rapid change

Archaeologists Identify the Site Where Jesus Exorcised the Legion of Demons and the Herd of Pigs

Rafael Llanes

Beyond the archaeologist’s interpretation of the biblical passage, Christian tradition already pointed to Kursi as the site of the miracle, reflected in the ruins of a 5th-century Byzantine Basilica, known as the «Chapel of the Miracle,» on the hill overlooking the port. Some scholars see the representation of pigs in the remains of its mosaic.