Vatican says no to Trump and declines to join the “Board of Peace”

Opus Dei before the Pope: what was said about the new statutes and some controversies in Argentina

ZENIT Staff

In addition, they discussed the situation of vocations in the Church and, particularly, the contrast between the situation in Africa and in Europe.

110 Conversions to Catholicism at a Single University: Which One Is It and Where Is It Located?

Rafael Manuel Tovar

The trend in the country was highlighted in a New York Post article of November 16, 2025, with data on young people converting to the Catholic Church: «Young people are converting to Catholicism en masse.» Matthew McDonald, writing for the National Catholic Register, spoke of «dioceses» with Masses that «report increases of 30%, 40%, 50%, and even more than 70%.»

Health for all: a speech by Leo XIV on health and human life

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Address of the Pope to participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Digital, cultural, conservation, and even interactive: these are the projects launched to mark the 400th anniversary of St. Peter’s Basilica

ZENIT Staff

The IV Centenary of the Dedication represents an opportunity to remember and look to the future: relaunch of the «Digital Mission of the outgoing Basilica»; Eni’s cutting-edge technologies and skills at the service of pilgrims and visitors to get to know, experience and interact with the Vatican Basilica

Number of Dutch Catholics on the Rise: Dutch Episcopal Conference Releases Data

ZENIT Staff

The number of new members of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands increased significantly in 2024. Compared to 2023, the total number of adults who joined, with or without Baptism, increased by almost 40%.

USA: Judge orders that migrants detained by ICE be allowed to receive ashes on Wednesday, 2026

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He has ordered both sides to confer not only about Ash Wednesday but also about ongoing ministry at Broadview, including whether clergy may pray inside and outside the facility and interact directly with detainees

Notre Dame “Catholic” University against (at least) nine American bishops (including the president of the Episcopal Conference)

ZENIT Staff

As the most prominent Catholic university in the United States, its decisions reverberate nationally and internationally. When bishops speak in unusually unified tones — at least nine within days — the signal is unmistakable: they perceive not a routine hiring matter, but a test of identity

Chinese government announces ban on online and AI content that discourages marriage or having children

ZENIT Staff

By including “fear of marriage” and “childbirth anxiety” among prohibited themes, the latest campaign highlights how demographic policy has migrated into the realm of content control

ACI Prensa and Catholic News Agency will disappear: they will be merged into the new EWTN News

ZENIT Staff

The strategic shift reflects a maturation of EWTN’s news enterprise. What began as parallel regional operations reporting from the United States, Peru, the Vatican, Kenya, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Iraq is now being streamlined into a coordinated global newsroom

The progressive Anglican Church decides not to bless same-sex couples (for now)

Elizabeth Owens

«Bishop» of London Sarah Mullally told the Synod, as reported by The Telegraph, that the Living in Love and Faith process has wounded both individuals and the institution itself. The debates, she said, have touched core theological convictions and the Church’s sense of identity

Vatican says no to Trump and declines to join the “Board of Peace”

Valentina di Giorgio

In declining to join the Board of Peace while reaffirming the centrality of the United Nations, the Vatican signals a preference for established multilateral frameworks over newly configured coalitions. Whether that strategy will prove effective in a world where consensus is increasingly elusive remains an open question

Puerto Rico’s pro-life governor redefines the concept of “human being” in criminal law, opening a new phase in the abortion debate

ZENIT Staff

Puerto Rico has inserted the question of unborn personhood more deeply into its legal code. In doing so, it has not only amended a statute but intensified a debate that extends well beyond the island’s shores