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By EWTN News Staff · 8 hours ago
Pope Leo XIV waves from the papal plane at the start of his trip to four countries in Africa on April 13, 2026. Credit: Vatican Media.
The 10-day Africa trip will take the pope to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea
Aboard the papal flight to Algeria, Leo said he is not a politician and will continue to preach the Gospel’s call for peace and multilateral dialogue.
By Angela Ambrogetti, Marco Mancini · 9 mins ago
Pope Leo XIV speaks to reporters aboard the papal plane to Algeria on April 13, 2026. Credit: Marco Mancini/EWTN News.
The high-level face-to-face talks in Pakistan followed weeks of military confrontation that began in late February and produced a tenuous two-week ceasefire, which ends April 22.
By Amira Abuzeid · Yesterday
US Vice President JD Vance (C) walks with Pakistan's Chief of Defense Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir (L) and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad on April 11, 2026. | Credit: Jacquelyn Martin /POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
A new AI platform called Acutis AI has been developed by two brothers who want to create a search tool shaped by Catholic morality and teaching.
On Divine Mercy Sunday, the pope prayed for Ukraine, Lebanon, and Sudan.
By ACI Stampa · Yesterday
Pope Leo XIV on Dec. 28, 2025. | Credit: Vatican Media
Prayer is “the most free, universal and disruptive response to death,” the pope said in St. Peterʼs Basilica on Apr. 11.
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His appointment comes following the resignation of Cardinal Raphael Sako, who submitted his resignation to Pope Leo XIV on March 9 amid a legal and financial scandal surrounding a former bishop.
By ACI MENA · Yesterday
Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona, newly elected leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church. | Credit: ACI MENA
The bishop of Palm Beach said the crisis in the neighboring island nation “has reached truly inhumane proportions … and our solidarity and response are urgently needed.”
Catholic aid workers in Beirut offer details on Israel’s deadliest attack on the country, which took place this week.
By Tyler Arnold · April 10, 2026
This photograph taken on April 10, 2026, during a media tour organized by Hezbollah's media office shows a digger clearing the rubble of a building in Beirut’s Hay al-Selloum neighborhood that was targeted in an Israeli strike earlier this week. | Credit: FADEL itani/AFP via Getty Images
Israel’s most recent strikes killed more than 300 people in Lebanon and more than 1,700 have died since the start of the war, prompting the bishop’s appeal to President Donald Trump.
Trumpʼs social media broadside and comments to reporters came as the pope prepared to depart for an 11-day trip to Africa.
By EWTN News Staff · 6 hours ago
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 26, 2026 in Washington, D.C. | Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
A seminary was established in Mexico in 1999 to serve the growing Hispanic community in North America, forming future priests who learn Spanish as well as ecclesial and cultural traditions.
By Diego López Colín · April 5, 2026
A young man from the U.S. walks at the Hispanic Seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. | Credit: Hispanic Seminary of Santa María de Guadalupe
Pope Leo XIV has chosen four U.S. Catholics to serve in a Vatican office that focuses heavily on immigration.
The National Catholic Register contacted all 175 Latin-rite territorial dioceses in the United States, seeking numbers of people planning to join the Catholic Church at Easter 2026.
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Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media
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The liturgy was part of a global response to Pope Leo XIV’s appeal to pray amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
His appointment comes following the resignation of Cardinal Raphael Sako, who submitted his resignation to Pope Leo XIV on March 9 amid a legal and financial scandal surrounding a former bishop.
A poll shows Catholics disapprove of President Donald Trump’s performance as president, overall, including on how he has handled the conflict with Iran.
A new AI platform called Acutis AI has been developed by two brothers who want to create a search tool shaped by Catholic morality and teaching.
Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on a 10-day papal trip to four countries in Africa from April 13–23.
The diocese clarified that the decision expresses “no moral judgment regarding the life, virtues, and pastoral ministry” of the bishop, who remains a servant of God.
“It is through the Eucharist that even our hands become ‘hands of the Risen One',” the pope said.
Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on a 10-day papal trip to four countries in Africa from April 13–23.
The diocese clarified that the decision expresses “no moral judgment regarding the life, virtues, and pastoral ministry” of the bishop, who remains a servant of God.
“It is through the Eucharist that even our hands become ‘hands of the Risen One',” the pope said.
