Archbishop Gabriele Caccia has once again urged the international community to focus on disarmament and peace rather than ...

At a UN work session, the Holy See calls for new policies to support the economies of landlocked and small island developing ...

On October 22, 2024, the Holy See and the Chinese government renewed, for the third time, the 2018 “Provisional Agreement ...

A reserved blessing which is conferred by a priest who does not have the required delegation is valid, but illicit, unless the Holy See has declared otherwise in the reservation. * Deacons and ...

(*) GENEVA (Switzerland) - The UN's World Meteorological Organization publishes its annual bulletin on the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (0900 GMT) LONDON (United Kingdom) - ...

Pharmaceutical and a host of other companies will be expected to voluntarily pay into a new fund covering their use of genetic data, the UN COP16 biodiversity summit agreed, but countries failed to ...

The focal point for Sino-Vatican relations is the 2018 accord, which the Holy See and China jointly signed. It reportedly allows both parties to have a say in appointing bishops for the Catholic ...

Although similar documents were adopted during the General Assembly’s previous sessions, the provision related to religious symbols and holy books is a new one UNITED NATIONS, July 26.

The Belgian Church’s annual report recorded almost 10 times as many requests for “debaptism” and five times as many sexual abuse claims than average last year, after a television mini-series revisited ...

Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle, a papally-appointed member of the Synod of Bishops, said that as the second synod ...

Representatives from more than 175 countries are gathering to negotiate answers, starting on Monday in Cali, Colombia, at what is expected to be the largest United Nations biodiversity conference ...

This week everyone on the internet is talking about Dua Lipa. But the chatter isn’t about her headlining set at Austin City Limits last week, or anything Radical Optimism or even music-related. ...