Jesus was political and so are we ~ how christians vote matters

An Ecumenical Ministry in the Parish of St Patrick's Catholic Church In San Diego USA

米国サンディエゴの聖パトリックカトリック教会教区におけるエキュメニカル宣教

Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo

Friday, January 23, 2026

A U.S. Ambassador, Christian Zionism, and an Unusual Clash with the Churches of Jerusalem

Trump invited the Vatican to the new “Peace Board.” The Holy See confirms that Leo XIV is considering accepting

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Trump’s initiative envisions the creation of a new international body aimed at steering a political settlement in Gaza, an idea he has presented as an alternative to what he considers the chronic ineffectiveness of the United Nations

USA: A Catholic Vice President Returns to the National Mall as the Pro-Life Movement Tests Its Political Moment

Tim Daniels

Vance occupies a singular place in contemporary American politics. He is only the second Catholic to serve as vice president of the United States, a fact not lost on organizers or participants of an event that has long drawn heavily from Catholic and evangelical constituencies

New Mass Kidnapping of Christians in Nigeria

ZENIT Staff

The region, considered strategic because it is located in a transition zone between the predominantly Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south, has frequently been targeted by criminal group and armed militias, which operate by taking advantage of the weak State presence in rural areas.

Leo XIV receives leaders of the most important traditional Catholic community (in communion with Rome) in audience

ZENIT Staff

This audience also provided an opportunity to evoke any misunderstandings and obstacles that the Fraternity encounters in certain places and to answer questions from the Supreme Pontiff

In an Era of Doom Scrolling, Young Listeners Are Choosing Hope — and Finding It Through Christian Hip-Hop

ZENIT Staff

Holy Culture Radio’s programming blends energizing beats with meaningful conversation, featuring both legendary and next-generation Christian hip-hop artists alongside talk shows that address purpose, culture, faith and community

Vatican employee satisfaction data published: survey reveals fatigue, fear, and demand for dignity

Valentina di Giorgio

Perhaps the most revealing section of the survey is the one addressed directly, albeit indirectly, to the Pope. Beyond calls for salary adjustments, family support, or fair productivity bonuses, employees articulate a deeper, ethical demand

Is it morally acceptable for the military to disobey Trump if he orders an invasion of Greenland? Response from the former president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops

Elizabeth Owens

Speaking to the BBC on January 18, the archbishop was blunt. He said he could see no scenario in which a U.S. military action to take control of Greenland—or the territory of any allied nation—would satisfy the classical Catholic criteria for a just war

The Catholic Church in Venezuela After Nicolás Maduro

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Regarding the role of the Church, the President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference explained that the Church’s activity was focused on the faithful attending Sunday Eucharistic celebrations, which was almost routine. There were precautions imposed by the measures dictated by the government, but the life of the Church has been managed with calm and prudence.

Breaking the silence: the nun who shows her face and accuses an Indian bishop of ongoing sexual abuse

ZENIT Staff

Pallassery, a former superior general of the Missionaries of Jesus, a diocesan congregation based in northern India’s Jalandhar diocese, has accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of raping her repeatedly during his visits to her convent in Kuravilangad, Kerala, between 2014 and 2016

How Catholicism declined in Latin America over 10 years: study shows growth in agnosticism and other interesting data

Jorge Enrique Mújica

These findings point to a transformation that is less about disbelief than about distance from institutions

A U.S. Ambassador, Christian Zionism, and an Unusual Clash with the Churches of Jerusalem

Tim Daniels

The episode highlights a deeper tension shaping contemporary Christianity: the growing influence of evangelical political theology on global affairs, and the unease it generates among older, territorially rooted Christian traditions

China in the Heart of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

ZENIT Staff

The relics of a young Chinese seminarian were brought by Bishop Louis Faurie, Apostolic Vicar of Kweichow, current Chinese Archdiocese of Guiyang, who had met him at the Paris Foreign Missions Seminary, where this Bishop was formed as a seminarian.

Cardinals, the first consistory of Leo XIV, and Cardinal Zen’s public objections

Jorge Enrique Mújica

For now, Leo XIV appears content to listen, to slow the pace, and to allow ideas championed under his predecessor either to mature organically or quietly recede

John L. Allen Jr. and the task of explaining the Vatican to the world: one of the most important Vaticanists passes away

ZENIT Staff

He was remembered not as an activist or a polemicist, but as a craftsman of information: a journalist who believed that clarity is a form of service, and that understanding the Church requires patience, historical memory, and intellectual honesty

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