Ukraine - Vatican News

02/08/2024

Ukraine wants Russia at peace table

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia should be represented at a second peace summit set for November after the first such gathering convened by Ukraine last month in ...

The Albertine sisters and a delegation from Aid to the Church in Need in front of the house opened in 2024

29/07/2024

Albertine Sisters at the service of Ukrainians in need

The Albertine Sisters have become a symbol in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, appearing wherever there is poverty and abandonment. When large-scale war broke out in February 2022, they ...

23/07/2024

Cardinal Parolin meets Ukrainian President, reaffirms commitment for peace

The Vatican Secretary of State is received in Kyiv by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to whom he conveys the Pope's solidarity and the Holy See's commitment to help find "a ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin at the headquarters of the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk.

22/07/2024

Cardinal Parolin to Ukraine: 'Nothing is impossible for God'

During his visit to Ukraine, the Holy See's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, brings Pope Francis' message of closeness and affirms that even when we may lose hope, ...

Cardinal Parolin presides over Mass at the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv, Ukraine

21/07/2024

At Mass in Ukraine Cardinal Parolin invokes the miracle of peace

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's Secretary of State, presides at a Mass at the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv in Ukraine. Sent by Pope Francis to visit the country, he ...

21/07/2024

Pope appeals for Olympic Truce for war-torn nations

Pope Francis expresses his wish that the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games provide an opportunity to establish a truce in ongoing wars and that athletes be messengers of peace. ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin (centre) with Auxiliary Greek Catholic Bishop Volodymyr Gruts of Lviv (left) and the Apoctolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas (right)

20/07/2024

Cardinal Parolin: Holy See committed to just peace in Ukraine

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks to Vatican News about his six-day visit to Ukraine for the final celebration of the pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv ...

Cardinal Parolin visits Odessa's Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration

20/07/2024

Cardinal Parolin: Pope following situation in Ukraine with 'worry and pain'

The Holy See’s Secretary of State visits the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and says that the Pope is following the situation there "with so much attention, with so much worry and so ...

19/07/2024

Cardinal Parolin in Ukraine to visit Kyiv, Odesa and meet civil and religious authorities

The Vatican Secretary of State is in Ukraine from 19 – 24 July. The cardinal is to preside over Mass at the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv for the concluding celebration of the ...

The Marian Sanctuary of Berdychiv, Ukraine

13/07/2024

Pope sending Parolin to Ukraine on journey of peace

Pope Francis designates Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin as his representative for the concluding celebrations of the pilgrimage of Latin-Rite Ukrainian Catholics, ...

File Photo: Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, visits Pope Francis in the Vatican (5 August 2022)

12/07/2024

Pope Francis receives Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Antonij

Russian Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, meets Pope Francis in the Vatican.

10/07/2024

Ukraine's President Appeals For Help After Deadly Hospital Strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges the United States and its allies to take decisive action against Russia as his nation mourns a strike on Ukraine's largest children's ...

Aftermath of Russian missile strike on Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv

09/07/2024

Pope distressed by continuing violence in Ukraine and Gaza

Pope Francis has learnt with great sorrow about the attacks on medical centres in Kyiv and on a school in Gaza, and hopes and prays for concrete solutions to end the wars. ...

the site of a rocket strike on the Okhmadyt children's hospital in Kyiv

08/07/2024

Russia hits Children's Hospital in Kyiv

Officials say Russia launches dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 29 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv. The ...

07/07/2024

Pope calls for renewed commitment to pray and work for peace

At the conclusion of his Sunday visit to the northeastern Italian city of Trieste, Pope Francis calls for prayers and efforts for world peace, remembering in particular Ukraine, ...

Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Vilniansk

30/06/2024

Ukraine mourning after attack on southern town

Local authorities in Ukraine declared a day of mourning on Sunday after Russian missiles reportedly slammed into a town in southern Ukraine, killing seven civilians, including ...

Women mourn the loss of their family members after Israeli bombardment in al-Maghazi, Gaza

30/06/2024

Pope: May those who fight wars convert to fighting for peace

Pope Francis prays for peace and remembers today's martyrs, highlighting worldwide discrimination and persecution.

Ukrainian citizens who returned from Russian captivity during an exchange of prisoners of war in Kyiv.

29/06/2024

Russia frees prisoners after mediation of Vatican

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says ten Ukrainian civilians held prisoner for years by Russia arrived in Kyiv on Saturday after the mediation of the Vatican, including even ...

Ukrainian citizens who returned from Russian captivity, 25 June

29/06/2024

Pope prays for worldwide release of prisoners of war

Pope Francis appeals for an end for all wars, and in celebrating the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war, asks that all prisoners, everywhere, be able to go home.

29/06/2024

Ukraine: Zelensky thanks Holy See for its help in the release of two priests

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, express gratitude to the Pope and Vatican ...

Pope Francis with the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

28/06/2024

Pope hopes to visit Türkiye for anniversary of Council of Nicea

In remarks to a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Pope Francis expresses his hopes of travelling to Türkiye in 2025 to celebrate the 1,700th ...

Pope Francis receives in audience Fra' John Dunlap, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

27/06/2024

Pope Francis receives Grand Master of Order of Malta

Pope Francis receives in audience Fra' John Dunlap, the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the Vatican.

Destruction in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

27/06/2024

Pope: ‘Stop spiral of war now! War is always a defeat’

Pope Francis addresses members of ROACO, the Holy See’s humanitarian arm for the Oriental Churches, and renews his plea for peace, calling for solidarity with Eastern Christians ...

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski in the cemetery of Ternopil in Ukraine in June 2024

26/06/2024

Cardinal Krajewski’s anger and pain before the graves of Ukrainian war victims

Cardinal Krajewski’s visit to the Ukrainian region of Ternopil to deliver the Pope’s gift of an ambulance takes him to a cemetery where many young victims of war are buried and to ...

Pope Francis greets Ukrainian mothers and wives following his Wednesday General Audience

26/06/2024

Pope greets Ukrainian wives and mothers, appeals for peace

Ahead of the upcoming Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Francis prays to the Patrons of Rome for peace in war-torn Ukraine, the Holy Land, and Myanmar.

Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, CNEWA president, confers CNEWA’s Faith & Culture Award to Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, at the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta on 21 June. His communications director, Mariana Karapinka, received the award on his behalf. (photo: Gerald Wutkowski)

25/06/2024

‘Hope is not blind optimism,’ says Archbishop Gudziak

Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia received CNEWA’s Faith & Culture Award on 21 June at the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta.

24/06/2024

Pope Francis donates third ambulance to Ukrainian hospital

Pope Francis sends Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Charity, to Ukraine for the eighth time, to deliver a third ambulance and medicine to help the ...

At least two people injured in a Russian rocket attack on the Kyiv region

23/06/2024

Strikes kill numerous people in Russia and Ukraine

Moscow says at least four people have died in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday, a day after Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv killed three ...

22/06/2024

Ukraine's infrastructure under heavy attacks amid regional concerns

At least nearly a dozen people have died since Friday in their clashes in eastern Ukraine, near Crimea, and in Russia itself.

21/06/2024

Annual Roaco meeting: Focus on war-afflicted countries

On June 24 - 27, the 97th assembly of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches takes place in Rome with contributions and reports from the Holy Land and Ukraine.

Cardinal Parolin at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine

19/06/2024

Cardinal Parolin: Russia’s absence at Summit for Peace in Ukraine a limitation

On the sidelines of an event at the Italian Senate dedicated to peacemaking Cardinal Parolin comments on the high-level Conference for Peace in Ukraine that was held over the ...

Ukrainian servicemen carry a cross during a funeral for a fallen Air Force colonel

19/06/2024

Pope says he keeps slain Ukrainian soldier's Bible on his desk

During his weekly General Audience, the Pope says that he keeps on his desk a Bible that belonged to a Ukrainian soldier killed in the country’s war with Russia.

Oil depots on fire in Russia's Rostov region after alleged drone attack

18/06/2024

Ukraine strikes Russia despite nuclear fears

An overnight attack on two oil depots inside Russia's Rostov region was reportedly carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine, just days after several countries agreed with ...

Summit on peace in Ukraine, in Switzerland

17/06/2024

Cardinal Parolin: Dialogue is the only means to achieve peace

Addressing world leaders gathered for a high-level Conference for Peace in Ukraine, the Vatican Secretary of State reiterates the Pope’s message that the only means capable of ...

16/06/2024

Ukraine Peace Summit overshadowed by children's disappearance

The final declaration at this weekend's so-called "peace summit" of world leaders in Switzerland on ending the war in Ukraine was not heading for unanimous support despite concerns ...

FILE PHOTO: Suspected Islamist rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), attack villages of Masala

16/06/2024

Pope decries massacres in DRC and appeals for protection of civilians

Pope Francis appeals to DRC authorities and to the international community to do everything possible to stop violence in the eastern part of the country and protect civilians. He ...

15/06/2024

G7 agrees on 50 billion for Ukraine as battles rage

U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that the Group of Seven (G7) Western economies have agreed to use frozen Russian state assets to give tens of billion in aid to war-torn ...

Pope Francis with world leaders at the G7 summit in Italy

14/06/2024

Pope Francis meets with world leaders at G7 summit

At the G7 summit in southern Italy, Pope Francis holds one-on-one meetings with the leaders of the US, Ukraine, India, Kenya, France, Turkey, Canada, and Brazil.

A Ukrainian soldier in the Donetsk region

14/06/2024

G7 agrees on 50 billion for Ukraine as battles rage

U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that the Group of Seven (G7) Western economies have agreed to use frozen Russian state assets to give tens of billions in aid to war-torn ...

2024.06.14 Foto copertina noticias oriente 14 junio

14/06/2024

News from the Orient – June 14, 2024

In this week's news from the Eastern Churches, produced in collaboration with L'Œuvre d'Orient, Cardinal Sako returns to Baghdad, Germany hosts a peace conference for Ukraine, and ...

At least three people were injured in overnight drone attack in Kharkiv

11/06/2024

Ukrainian priest: We are tired and losing hope

Fr Roman Ostrovskyy, Vice-Rector of the Greek Catholic seminary in Kyiv, expresses the sense of downtroddenness felt by Ukrainians in this third year of the conflict in their ...

Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint in Gaza City

09/06/2024

Pope calls for urgent aid for Gaza and encourages peace efforts

Pope Francis calls on nations to act urgently to help the people of Gaza with desperately needed humanitarian aid. He encourages peace efforts at a summit hosted by Jordan set to ...

03/06/2024

Rebuilding communities through sports in war-torn Ukraine

Vatican News speaks with Larissa Yatsiuk about the work carried out in the social sports schools run by the NGO “Epicentr for Children” to help Ukrainian children recover from the ...

A burnt vehicle in front of damaged shop in Omdurman

02/06/2024

Pope renews prayers for peace in Sudan as millions risk famine

Pope Francis urges world leaders to seek peace between Sudan’s warring parties, as humanitarian organizations say time is running out for millions of people in the African nation.

Pope Francis and President Zuzana Caputova of the Slovak Republic

01/06/2024

Pope and Slovakian President discuss war in Ukraine

Pope Francis receives the President of the Republic of Slovakia in audience in the Vatican.

A moment of the screening in the Vatican of "20 Days in Mariupol"

31/05/2024

Vatican hosts screening of documentary "20 Days in Mariupol"

Members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See attended an exclusive screening of the Oscar-winning film by Mstyslav Chernov, “20 Days in Mariupol” on 29 May 2024. The ...

31/05/2024

Cardinal Parolin: NATO arms in Russia will lead to ‘uncontrollable escalation'

Answering to journalists' questions, the Vatican Secretary of State expresses the Holy See’s concerns over a further escalation of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and confirms ...

Memorial to victims of a Russian drone attack on Ukraine

29/05/2024

Pope: Children suffer from wars in Ukraine, Myanmar, Holy Land

Pope Francis insists that children are truly the victims who suffer most in war, as he recalls a recent audience with Ukrainian children who had suffered burns and lost legs due to ...

Pope Francis with the Ukrainian and Palestinian children

25/05/2024

Pope meets with Ukrainian and Palestinian children

On Saturday, Father Marcin Schmidt accompanied a group of children, predominantly from war zones, to the Vatican. Despite everything, they brought a message of hope.

Houses in the suburbs of Kharkiv in Ukraine, destroyed by a Russian drone attack

22/05/2024

Pope Francis: World needs peace in this time of war

Pope Francis invites everyone to pray for peace in our world "at war," and urges us to not forget Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, and all countries suffering due to conflicts. ...

Clouds of smoke rise above Kharkiv, Ukraine, following a bombardment on 17 May 2024

19/05/2024

Pope prays Holy Spirit may create harmony for world peace

Following the midday Regina Coeli prayer on Pentecost Sunday, Pope Francis prays that the Holy Spirit may instil harmony in our hearts and world leading to peace in Palestine, ...

The Marian Shrine of Berdychiv in Ukraine

18/05/2024

Cardinal Parolin to travel to Ukraine in July

The Vatican Secretary of State will represent the Pope at the conclusion of a pilgrimage of Ukrainian Catholics of Latin rite in Ukraine.

The mission to restore children's smiles

17/05/2024

Sr. Viktoriya’ mission to restore the smiles of Ukrainian children

Sr. Viktoriya Andrushchyshyna rescues childhoods destroyed by war. She distributes drops of kindness in frontier areas, where her angels of joy travel to cities and villages that ...

Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople

16/05/2024

Patriarch Bartholomew: Preparations underway for 1700th anniversary of Nicaea

Bartholomew I of Constantinople speaks to Vatican News about ecological conversion. He also discusses the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the ecumenical preparations for the upcoming ...

15/05/2024

Pope asks international community to help flood-hit Afghanistan

During his greetings at the General Audience Pope Francis appeals to the international community to step in with aid and support for Afghanistan that has been struck by deadly ...

Relatives call for return of missing Ukrainian soldiers and prisoners of war in Kyiv

12/05/2024

Concerns grow about the treatment of prisoners of war in Ukraine-Russia war

Pope Francis' appeal for an exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine and his assurance the Holy See stands ready to facilitate in this regard, come at a time of ...

File photo of a former Ukrainian prisoner of war reacting after a prisoner exchange

12/05/2024

Pope: Holy See ready to facilitate exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war

Pope Francis renews his appeal for an exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war, assuring the Holy See’s readiness to facilitate efforts in this regard.

09/05/2024

Fierce Ukrainian-Russian clashes as Moscow warns West

As Russia marks the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of risking a global armed conflict. In Ukraine, the war ...

File photo of Pope Francis praying the Rosary

08/05/2024

Pope: Pray Rosary for Our Lady's intercession in wars lashing our world

Pope Francis urges the faithful to pray the Rosary, especially during the month of May, as he entrusts to the Blessed Virgin Mary the cause of peace for the wars in the Holy Land, ...

Orthodox believers light candles at St Volodomyr Cathedral in Kyiv ahead of the Divine Liturgy for Easter

05/05/2024

Ukraine celebrates Easter in the shadow of war

Ukrainian Greek Catholics and others are celebrating Easter Sunday amid reports of heavy fighting as Russian troops are further advancing in Eastern Ukraine. Sunday marks the third ...

Orthodox believers carry traditional Easter baskets in the village of Krasne, Ukraine

05/05/2024

Pope sends Paschal greetings on Julian calendar Easter

Pope Francis offers Easter greetings to Eastern-rite Catholics and Orthodox brothers and sisters who celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection according to the Julian Calendar, and prays ...

05/05/2024

Pope at Regina Coeli encourages growing in friendship with the Lord

In his reflections on the Sunday Gospel during the Regina Coeli, Pope Francis recalls Jesus' words to the Apostles, “I do not call you servants any longer, but friends." He ...

A woman walks amongst the rubble in Rafah, Palestine

01/05/2024

Pope denounces arms industry and condemns profitting from death

Pope Francis prays for victims of war in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, and Myanmar, highlighting how, unfortunately, the most profitable investments are those linked to the arms ...

Children and their teachers wait in a school basement used as a bomb shelter during an air strike on Kryvyi Rih, Southern Ukraine

26/04/2024

War in Ukraine: More and more children killed in deadly attacks

The verified number of children killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine has increased dramatically this year compared to 2023, as deadly strikes continue.

File photo of Pope Francis during an interview

25/04/2024

Pope: 'A negotiated peace is better than an endless war'

In an interview with CBS, Pope Francis calls for an end to the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and around the world. He says there is room for everyone in the Church pointing out that if a ...

Pope Francis greets members of the Brothers of Christian Instruction

22/04/2024

Pope to La Mennais Brothers: be fathers to those you serve

On the occasion of their General Chapter, Pope Francis urges the Brothers of Christian Instruction of Ploermel – known as the La Mennais Brothers – to be “fathers who reflect the ...

Servicemen of Ukraine's 57th brigade walk near an artillery position at the outskirts of Kupiansk

21/04/2024

Ukraine thanks U.S. for military aid after suffering setbacks

Ukrainian and Western leaders have welcomed a desperately needed military aid package for Ukraine passed by the U.S. House of Representatives after mounting concerns the country ...

Local residents take their belongings out of damaged buildings after a missile attack, Dnipro

20/04/2024

Ukraine: The United Nations fears mounting death toll in children

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern about the mounting death toll among children in Ukraine after the war against Russia ...

Rally in Kyiv calls for return of Ukrainian prisoners of war

17/04/2024

Pope Francis appeals for release of prisoners of war

Pope Francis turns his attention to prisoners of war, prays for their freedom and denounces the tortures many of them are subjected to.

Meeting of the Council of Cardinals (Archive photo)

16/04/2024

Council of Cardinals discusses global situation, Synod, role of women in Church

The meetings took place from 15-16 April at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. Discussions focused on a number of areas, including the global situation, prayers for end to conflicts ...

Rev. Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches

15/04/2024

World Council of Churches does not agree to XXV WRCC's Decree

The General Secretary of the WCC says the organization cannot reconcile the Decree of the XXV World Russian People's Council, whose head is the Orthodox Patriarch, which describes ...

A Ukrainian woman hugs her children at a border crossing in Hungary (file photo)

15/04/2024

The invisible and indelible wounds of war

Dr. Richard Mollica, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, shares with Vatican Media his decades of experience in assisting trauma survivors as they and their families ...

14/04/2024

Ukraine military fears more losses at battlefields

Ukraine’s military chief warned that the battlefield situation in the industrial east has “significantly worsened in recent days,” amid concerns that warming weather allows Russian ...

A view of destroyed critical power infrastructure in Kharkiv

12/04/2024

Many Ukrainians without power after deadly Russian strikes

Authorities say hundreds of settlements in Ukraine are without power after Russian drone and missile strikes that killed at least five people.

08/04/2024

Ukrainian civilians suffer more deaths

Pope Francis's appeal to pray for peace in Ukraine comes as that war-torrn nation reels from massive Russian strikes that, besides soldiers, also killed more than a dozen civilians ...

FILE PHOTO: Scenes of destruction in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas

07/04/2024

Pope: May the Lord give leaders the capacity to pause and mediate for peace

Pope Francis reiterates his appeal for negotiated solutions to the ongoing wars in Ukraine, Palestine and Israel.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy (archive photo)

03/04/2024

Ukraine's president meets Christian leaders

Volodomyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, meets with Bishops of the country’s Latin-Rite Catholic churches and with representatives of Ukrainian Protestant communities.

Pope Francis holding rosary and Gospel of young fallen Ukrainian soldier, Oleksandr, during his Wednesday General Audience

03/04/2024

Pope prays for people slain in war, recalls Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr

Pope Francis recalls a slain Ukrainian soldier, 23-year-old Oleksandr, who was killed in the fighting in Avdiivka, as the Pope held the late soldier's rosary and Gospel.

The Easter vigil with Visvaldas Kulbokas in Zaporizhzhia

02/04/2024

Ukraine: Easter amid bombardment in Zaporizhzhia

The Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, describes how Ukrainians spent Easter under heavy Russian bombardment.

31/03/2024

Ukraine faces massive attacks on Easter Sunday

Ukraine says it has come under massive Russian air strikes on Easter Sunday. Russia confirmed Sunday that it conducted a massive strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and ...

Pope Francis gives 'Urbi et Orbi' in the Vatican on Easter Sunday (31 March 2024)

31/03/2024

Pope Francis at Easter Urbi et Orbi: Christ is risen! All begins anew!

Following the Easter Sunday Mass, Pope Francis delivers his Easter message and blessing "To the City and the World," praying especially for the Holy Land, Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, ...

26/03/2024

Archbishop Gallagher: Negotiations needed to stop wars

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, discusses the future of Europe and the world, along with the wars in Ukraine and the Holy Land, ...

Pope Francis prays at Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square

24/03/2024

Pope prays for victims of terrorist attack in Moscow

Pope Francis offers his prayers for the victims of Friday’s terrorist attack on a concert hall in the Russian capital of Moscow, and invites everyone to pray for “martyred Ukraine” ...

A couple hugs near a makeshift memorial in St. Petersburg

23/03/2024

Terrorist attack on Moscow concert hall kills over 100 people

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that Ukraine was involved in Friday’s shooting at a major concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 133 people, despite an ...

Aftermath of a Russian missile attack near Kyiv

21/03/2024

Several killed in Russian missile attack on Ukraine

Ukrainian officials say Russia's military has launched missile attacks on the capital, Kyiv, for the first time in 44 days, injuring 10 people, including a child, while in the ...

A woman votes in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine

18/03/2024

Putin Claims Election Victory

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in a presidential vote, while thousands protested against his “authoritarian rule,” polling stations were set ablaze, and ...

After the prime minister pledged to step down, an uneasy quiet in Haiti capital

17/03/2024

Pope expresses relief over kidnapped released in Haiti, prays for those still held

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis expresses satisfaction over the release of a teacher and four of six religious kidnapped in Haiti. He appeals for the release of those still ...

Aftermath of a Russian drone strike in Sumy

13/03/2024

Three Ukrainians killed in Russian bomb and drone strikes

Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed in overnight Russian drone and bomb attacks in eastern Ukraine as fighting intensifies, just a day after Moscow ...

Il Papa � arrivato nella basilica di San Pietro

13/03/2024

Pope Francis' eleventh year marred by sorrow over wars

Pope Francis' last twelve months have been marked by over 150 appeals for "martyred" Ukraine and more than 60 for a ceasefire in the Middle East, accompanied by invitations to the ...

12/03/2024

Parolin: For the Pope, negotiation is not surrender, but a condition for just and lasting peace

Following Pope Francis' interview on the war in Ukraine with Radio Télévision Suisse, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin discusses the issue with the Italian newspaper ...

Haiti remains in a state of emergency in the face of violence, in Port-au-Prince

10/03/2024

Pope prays for peace in Haiti and global solidarity

Pope Francis offers prayers for the people of Haiti suffering due to worsening violence, while remembering the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine and the Holy ...

09/03/2024

‘Pope asks for the courage to negotiate for Ukraine’

The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, responds to journalists regarding Pope Francis’ statements in an interview with a Swiss TV station, saying “the Pope picked ...

A graveyard for fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv

09/03/2024

Pope on war in Ukraine: 'Do not be ashamed to negotiate'

In an interview to a Swiss TV station, Pope Francis reflects at length on various aspects of war and its devastating effects, noting that it takes two sides to make war and ...

Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed houses in Gaza

06/03/2024

Pope: ‘Pray for people suffering from horrors of war’

Pope Francis invites Christians to pray for all people who suffer from the horrors of war and to invoke peace for our world.

Toys displayed outside a building in Odesa on March 3 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

03/03/2024

Russia blames Ukraine for massive drone strike on Crimea

Moscow claims that Ukraine launched a massive drone strike on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula on Sunday, prompting Turkey to call for a ceasefire. Sunday's strike came as ...

Palestinian children search amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Rafah

03/03/2024

Pope Francis: Let‘s all say ‘Enough!’ Stop the war in the Middle East

Pope Francis issues a heartfelt appeal for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, so that the Israeli hostages may be freed and the Palestinian population may receive urgently needed aid. ...

02/03/2024

Pope Francis meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Pope Francis meets with the Chancellor of Germany, discussing the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the refugee crisis.

Haitians displaced by violence in a temporary shelter in Port-au-Prince (file photo)

28/02/2024

Pope calls for prayer for Burkina Faso, Haiti

At the conclusion of the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis invites the faithful to pray for Burkina Faso and for Haiti, and not to forget the people of Ukraine, of Palestine ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin at the award ceremony of the Economy and Society Prize

27/02/2024

Cardinal Parolin: EU military intervention in Ukraine a 'frightening' prospect

Closing the award ceremony of the “Economy and Society” International Prize awarded by the Centesimus Annus Foundation, the Cardinal Secretary of State expresses strong concerns ...

People pray for peace in Ukraine during an inter-faith prayer service at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in London

25/02/2024

Pope pleads for just and lasting peace in Ukraine

Pope Francis notes the anniversary of the beginning of the large-scale war in Ukraine, and pleads for a diplomatic solution aimed at “a just and lasting peace.”

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