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U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

In bid to ‘put America first,’ Trump again withdraws U.S. from Paris climate accord

Jan 21, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The president issued the executive order as part of a flurry of directives he signed within hours of taking the... Read more

Pope Francis received President-Designate of COP28 UAE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at the Vatican.

COP28 president-designate meets with Pope Francis to discuss common climate goals 

Oct 12, 2023

By Matthew Santucci

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber from the UAE met the pope on Wednesday at the Vatican ahead of the COP28 meeting... Read more

Pope Francis gives the general audience address in the Apostolic Library Nov. 25, 2020.

Vatican committed to net zero emissions by 2050, Pope Francis says

Dec 12, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis urged Saturday the adoption of a "climate of care," and said the Vatican City State is committed to... Read more

Ocean, mountains, flowers.

Holy See dissatisfied Poland climate summit downplayed human rights

Dec 19, 2018

By Hannah Brockhaus

In a statement Wednesday, the Holy See said the rules for implementing the Paris Agreement, established during the recent UN... Read more

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Participants in the three-day planned peaceful protests in Nigeria’s Diocese of Auchi from March 25–27, 2025, emphasized the need for improved security and called for an end to abductions targeting the clergy that have resulted in deaths of some of the abductees.

3-day peaceful protests in Nigerian diocese call for end to abductions, killings

More than 60 men died after a mosque collapsed in Sagaing Township aftera 7.7-magmitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025.

Catholics race against time and obstacles to help earthquake victims in Myanmar

U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court hears arguments on state defunding of Planned Parenthood

Polonia Castellanos, founder of the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers.

Report: Attacks on Catholics increasingly common and tolerated in Europe and Latin America

Vice President JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

JD Vance speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ screening in Washington, DC

Asylum seekers wait for their CBP One appointments with U.S. authorities before crossing through El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 20, 2025.

Catholic, evangelical leaders: ‘Suffering’ of mass deportation affects all Christians

Participants speak at the conference “Jews and Catholics on Ethics: A Light to the Nations” at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome on April 1, 2025.

At Vatican conference, Catholic and Jewish scholars discuss faith as foundation for ethics

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of the Archdiocese of Westminster.

UK bishops’ conference president speaks out against ‘deeply flawed’ assisted suicide bill

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Pope Francis: ‘God does not pass by without looking for those who are lost’

Reconstruction of the face of St. Teresa of Ávila as she would have appeared at approximately age 50.

What St. Teresa of Ávila would have looked like

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