Immaculate Conception Parish

After actively participating in the 2023 and 2024 Synods, he was created a Cardinal by Pope Francis in December 2024, prior to participating in his first Conclave in May 2025. His six years at the helm of the Episcopal Conference of Ivory Coast also provided a privileged perspective on the Church in his country and, more broadly, on the reality of the Church in Africa.

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China misused Claude to target dissidents, religious minorities, and journalists

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Masih was rushed to the hospital and later referred to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital due to the severity of his condition. An official medical certificate was issued confirming severe injuries across multiple parts of his body.

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The decree, issued September 4, is an unusually concrete pastoral response to an atmosphere of anxiety surrounding the intensified immigration crackdown in the United States

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Pope's General Audience, September 16, 2026, on the Human Community

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Neither move necessarily represents a repudiation of Francis’s objectives

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The two cases share an unusual feature: both countries have Catholic majorities and constitutional arrangements in which the Church or a Catholic head of state retains an institutional role. Yet they illustrate two very different ways in which questions of abortion, political authority and conscience can collide.

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The first research results are collected in the volume "Hagia Polis Project. Excavations at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Volume I. Project and Methodology". A project in which collaboration between Communities and researchers becomes a valuable instrument of knowledge but also a symbol of a concrete form of guardianship of the Holy Place for the benefit of the faithful

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Of the 34 decrees recorded for 2025, 29 renewed existing permissions for a further two years. In several cases, a single decree covered more than one parish within the same diocese. The remaining authorizations concerned new or otherwise distinct permissions, although the published index does not provide a detailed explanation of every case.

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The partnership between Athletica Vaticana and the Italian Taekwondo Federation has been developing for several years. Athletica Vaticana became a member of the world federation in 2021, and the relationship took on an especially visible character in June, when the international taekwondo community was received by Leo XIV in St Peter’s Square.

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