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Imphal - There is no peace in Manipur. According to local Fides sources, the state is experiencing a new escalation of instability and protests demanding the release of 14 Kuki and 6 Naga hostages, abducted by armed groups, amidst chaos and social tensions. Roadblocks and protests are underway in several areas, and traffic on highways ... read more

Vatican City - On October 4, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , confirmed Father Paul Chatsirey Roeung as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Laos and Cambodia for the five-year term 2025-2030. EG ... read more

Vatican City - On August 1, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , confirmed Msgr. Nicolas Pierre Jean Lhernould, Archbishop of the Diocese of Tunis, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Tunisia for the five-year period 2025-2030 . EG ... read more

Abuja – At least nine people have been killed and another 25 kidnapped in the last three months in various attacks against parish communities in Kurmin Dangana, Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria. This was reported by Father Christian Okewu Emmanuel, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Kaduna, in a letter sent to the Catholic General Secretariat ... read more

Vatican City - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Bernardino Ne Ne, of the clergy of the diocese of Loikaw, until now parish priest of Mother of God in Sondu, as coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Taungngu, Myanmar.Msgr. Bernardino Ne Ne was born on 20 May 1970 in Loikaw, in the diocese of ... read more

Vatican City - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simon Jong-Gang Kim, until now bishop of Cheongju, as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Daegu, Korea.Archbishop-elect Simon Jong-Gang Kim was born on 2 January 1965 in the diocese of Cheongju. After attending the major seminary of Daegu, he was awarded a master’s degree in ... read more

by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Ulaanbaatar - Three years after his death on May 26, 2023, the figure of Father Stephen Kim SeongHueon remains very much alive in the memory of the Church in Mongolia. A Korean missionary and vicar general of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar, his life was an answer to a question that had ... read more

If my recent conversations with young conservatives are any indication, MAGA is in trouble. Over the past few months I’ve spoken with a number of young people, primarily young men, all of whom voted for Donald Trump in 2024. For some it was their first time voting in a presidential election. Although they all voted ... read more

Now that the Holy Father has expressed his thoughts on AI, allow me to express my opinion on AI’s effect in education. I believe that, in a sort of “eucastrophic” way, AI could be good for traditional methods. How so? By allowing a student to present work as “his” work when in fact it is ... read more

The Leo Chronicles: As Pope Leo's encyclical on AI launches, Brother Leo finds a power cord. ... read more

The church's delayed moral development on the issue of slavery constitutes "a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached," Leo XIV wrote in Magnifica Humanitas. ... read more

The key to cultivating a positive body image is recognizing that the true source of our beauty lies in the fact that we are temples of the Holy Spirit.   There is something unsettling about a magazine that pats itself on the back for “having the courage” to put a size-12 model on their cover. ... read more

Learning unsupported by grace may get into our ears; it never reaches the heart. But when God’s grace touches our innermost minds to bring understanding, his word which has been received by the ear sinks deep into the heart. — St. Isidore ... read more

Today is the Memorial of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), who was born in Florence and died in Rome. He lived a spotless childhood in Florence. Later he came to Rome and after living for fifteen years as a pilgrim and hermit was ordained a priest. He gradually gathered around him a group of priests and ... read more

Vatican City — By dating his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 15, Pope Leo XIV deliberately places himself within a well-defined tradition: that of the great social encyclicals, and in particular Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published on May 15, 1891.The “industrial revolution” to which his concern refers is that of artificial intelligence . ... read more