(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has called Christians worldwide to prayer this Friday for our brothers and sisters in China. Speaking at the end of his ...

(Vatican Radio) “Doing good” is a principle that unites all humanity, beyond the diversity of ideologies and religions, and creates the “culture of encounter” that ...

(Vatican Radio) Below a Vatican Radio translation of Pope Francis’ General Audience catechesis, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. [Original text Italian]:

Dear brothers and sisters, good ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram to Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City to express his deep concern for the victims, injured ...

(Vatican Radio) For a Christian, true progress lies in humbling ourselves as Jesus did. This was the focus of Pope Francis’ homily at morning Mass ...

(Vatican Radio) Ahead of reciting the Easter Marian hymn, Regina Caeli, for the last time this year on Pentecost Sunday, Pope Francis had a special ...

(Vatican Radio) Forced migration and how it can be tackled from a pastoral perspective. That is the subject of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral ...

On Saturday, 18 May, the Holy Father appointed: -Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach as apostolic nuncio to the Solomon Islands. Archbishop Banach, titular of Memphis, is ...

Washington, 23. While many Catholic organizations are aiding the families struck by the violent tornado which devastated Oklahoma City, the bishops' conference assures the people ...

(Vatican Radio) The new director of Rome’s Anglican Centre, former Archbishop of New Zealand David Moxon will be officially welcomed to his new post ...

(Vatican Radio) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the eastern Congo city of Goma on Thursday, hours after a rebel group fighting government forces nearby ...

(Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People is continuing its Plenary Assembly in the Vatican. It is looking ...

(Vatican Radio) Croatian researchers have trained bees to detect tens of thousands of land mines that are still buried throughout the country following the Balkan ...

Monaco - The suburban areas of northern Syria "are mostly controlled by various insurgent groups." The military government has abandoned the rural areas to concentrate its ...

Lima - The Office for the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, in collaboration with the Scalabrini International Migration Network , published a ...

Kinshasa - More than 30,000 refugees in camps in North Kivu have fled because of the fighting between the Congolese army and the rebels of ...

Jakarta - The President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in fact, an accomplice and creator of the climate of religious intolerance and violence against minorities ...

(Vatican Radio) Africa is in the midst of a technological revolution, and nothing illustrates that fact better than the proliferation of mobile phones. Consider this ...

Vatican City - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 5, 2013 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Patrick Le Gal ...

City - "The Church in Latin America, willing and committed to bringing the fruits of life among our peoples, welcomes the evangelical orientation of Pope Francis ...

(Vatican Radio) It’s exactly one month since two Syrian Orthodox archbishops were kidnapped near the city of Aleppo. The Greek Orthodox archbishop of Aleppo ...

Mato Grosso - The Indigenous Missionary Council , issued a statement on May 20 in which it denounced the "illegal and authoritarian" manner with which the missionaries ...

Vatican City - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 confirmed Rev.. Fr. Yvon B. Mabandza, of ...

Abuja – The Bishops of the Catholic Church in Nigeria have warned against the granting of blanket amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group ...

Dar es Salaam - The recent attack carried out during the inauguration of the parish of St. Joseph the Worker in Arusha is only the latest ...

(Vatican Radio) From May 19 through May 20, 2013, a series of devastating tornadoes ripped through central Oklahoma, culminating in a storm of EF-4 magnitude ...