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Zambia: PMS-Solwezi Diocese promotes ‘A Million Children Praying the Rosary’

The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the Catholic Diocese of Solwezi recently launched ‘A Million Children Praying the Rosary for Peace and Unity in the World’ campaign 2025. This initiative aimed to encourage school children to participate in a global prayer movement that recognises the Rosary as a powerful spiritual tool to foster peace and unity worldwide.

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Holy See: Structural causes must be identified to eradicate poverty

Addressing a United Nations Committee in New York, the Holy See Permanent Observer to the UN marks World Food Day, noting that structural causes need to be identified and addressed in order to eradicate poverty and hunger.

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Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Pope Leo XIV received purebred Arabian horse ahead of the weekly General Audience, which he received from a pilgrim from Poland.

President of Tutela Minorum: Protecting minors is inseparable from listening to victims

As the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors publishes on Thursday its second Annual Report on Church Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding, its President, Archbishop Thibault Verny, speaks to Vatican News about the body’s work, listening to the victims and walking with local Churches to promote safeguarding measures.

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Pope Leo urges world leaders ‘not to look the other way’ in fighting global hunger

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on world leaders to show responsibility as he urged the international community to focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery.

673 Million people experienced hunger in 2024

Some 8.2 percent of the global population, that is to say some 673 Million people, experienced hunger in 2024, reports UN agencies.

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Pope Leo XIV: ‘Defeating hunger is the path to peace’

Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome to mark World Food Day and the 80th anniversary of the organization’s founding. In his address he reaffirms the Holy See’s closeness to the institution and calls for a shared global commitment to end hunger and malnutrition.

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673 Million people experienced hunger in 2024

Some 8.2 percent of the global population, that is to say some 673 Million people, experienced hunger in 2024, reports UN agencies.

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Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal, and identified financial reparations and sanctions for abusers and their enablers as essential remedies.

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

The encounter between Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Pope Leo XIV is seen as an effort to build relationship.