On the banks of the Amazon River, the "Papa Francisco" hospital boat tends to some 5,200 people’s health and spiritual needs, which Sister Marcia Lopes Assis serves aboard in the Juruti-Pará region of the Amazon forest in Brazil.

The Franciscan friars made the first Lenten peregrination to the Franciscan shrine of Dominus Flevit, on the Mount of Olives, on Wednesday 28 February.

The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments which take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus are evoked. Christians can thus do a special meditation during Lent through visiting, lingering and praying at exactly the places connected with the pre-Easter memories.

A historic moment: this is how it was defined by the Patriarch of the Latins Pierbattista Pizzaballa who presided over the Mass at the Filoxenia centre in Nicosia on Saturday 16 March for the ordination of fr. Bruno Varriano as Bishop of Astigi, thus becoming the new auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Cyprus.

Interview with Fr. Alberto Joan Pari, Director of the Magnificat Institute

On Saturday 24 February, in St Peter’s church in Tiberias, the Custos of the Holy Land presided over the Solemn Mass of the Chair of St Peter

Pope Francis has never tired of lifting his prayers and launching appeals for peace in Ukraine over the past two years as the nation is trapped in the "madness" of war.

In his message for the 58th World Day of Social Communications, Pope Francis urges humanity to cultivate wisdom of the heart in the age of artificial intelligence.

Pope Francis condemns Iran's rocket attacks on Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, saying that “good relations between neighbours are not built with such actions, but with dialogue and cooperation”.

Pope Francis meets with members of the Italian “Bearers of St. Rose” sodality, and encourage Christians to get off the couch and work to spread the Gospel of Christ.

Pope Francis meets with members of an Institute of secular priests, stressing that secularity means “serving and bearing witness to the Kingdom of God in this world.”

Pope Francis sends the papal almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to the Holy Land as a sign of his solidarity amid the tragedy of war, and invites everyone to pray for peace.

On the Feast of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis says he is “close to the Christian communities that suffer discrimination”, and prays for peace in Syria, Gaza, and Ukraine.

Attack decried as attempt to erase Palestinian history after thousands of historical documents were torn apart and burnt

Archbishop Zalewski, 60 years old, from Poland, also nuncio to Singapore, is apointed resident papal representative in Vietnam. Last July, during the visit of President Vo Van Thuong of Vietnam to the Vatican, an agreement on the status of the resident papal representative was reached.

Christian leaders in Jerusalem meet with President Herzog to convey the Church’s consistent stance calling for an immediate cessation of the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip.

On 21 December 2023, an update on the archaeological excavation works at the Holy Sepulchre complex in Jerusalem was presented to the leaders of the Christian Communities managing the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, by the Department of Antiquities of the University of Rome Sapienza.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem urges Christians to heed the Christmas message of love, peace, and reconciliation at a time when violence and hatred seem to prevail in the Holy Land and other parts of the world.

Scholas Occurrentes, the educational movement established by Pope Francis, is awarded the University of Seville's 'Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo' human rights prize.

Pope Francis holds his customary exchange of Christmas greetings with Vatican employees, and encourages them to bear Christian witness in the workplace.