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• Cardinal Parolin condemns Russian attacks on Ukrainian electric system (Vatican News)
  Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, condemned Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electric system. “There is no justification for forcing thousands of civilians to live in darkness and cold,” Cardinal Parolin said at a memorial Mass for victims of the Holodomor. “We are deeply affected by the news of attacks on electrical […]
• East Timor's president meets with Pontiff (Radio Veritas Asia)
  Pope Leo XIV received President José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste (East Timor) in a recent audience. Ramos-Horta was a recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. Following the audience, Ramos-Horta met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness, and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. The parties, […]
• Crime networks are plundering the Amazon, Brazilian bishops' official warns (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
  Criminal networks are plundering the Amazon River basin, a Brazilian bishops’ conference official told the Vatican newspaper. “Illegal activities include unauthorized mining and the illegal occupation of land that, after being deforested by arson, is converted to intensive corn and soy cultivation for export,” said Luis Ventura Fernández, executive secretary of the conference’s Indigenous Missionary […]
• 9 cardinals, 36 bishops took part in UN Climate Change Conference (Vatican News)
  The apostolic nuncio to Brazil said in an interview that nine cardinals and 36 bishops took part in COP30, the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. Interviewed by Vatican News on the conference’s final day, Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, the deputy head of the Holy See’s delegation, warned of “controversial language and concepts” in […]