Church of the Transfiguration

The United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has decried a series of Israeli strikes on Rafah in the past few days that have killed mostly children and women. He has repeated his warning against a full-scale incursion to an area to which 1.2 million civilians are sheltering.

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The Cardinal Patriarch of Jerusalem reflects on the ongoing war in Gaza expressing his belief it shows the inevitability of the two-state solution: “There is no alternative to the two states but the continuation of war."

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Reflecting on the recently celebrated World Day of Prayer for Vocations, South Sudan’s Catholic Bishop of Tombura Yambio says he is filled with gratitude for his own call to be a priest, for the priests he works with, and for the number of young people responding to join the seminary in his diocese.

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Cisco, the multinational digital communications technology company, signs the Pontifical Academy for Life’s “Rome Call for AI Ethics” committing to an ethical approach to artificial intelligence in the areas of Ethics, Education and Rights.

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The Director General of UNICEF says more than three million children in Haiti are in need of humanitarian assistance, as conditions in the country continue to worsen.

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Amid pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University the university’s Catholic chaplain says the path forward “must first ensure that such malevolent protests, brimming with anti-Semitism, be stopped.”

Mexico’s government announced this week that it asked the Church's help to mediate a diplomatic crisis with Ecuador.

Bishops in Great Britain are expressing “deep misgivings” over the Safety of Rwanda Bill, which will send asylum seekers crossing to the UK from the English Channel by boat to the African country.

Britain’s controversial Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act has been raised by a Franciscan priest at the United Nations.

A move to criminalize “private thoughts” has been made closer by the Scottish Parliament, in a move described as the “world’s most extreme buffer zone law.”