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Pingliang – Anthony Li Hui, currently Coadjutor Bishop of Pingliang, in the Chinese province of Gansu, has assumed the leadership of the diocese, succeeding 85-year-old Bishop Nicholas Han Jide OFM Cap, who is now Bishop Emeritus of the same diocese. The Chinese Catholic online portals Xinde.org and chinacatholic.cn report that the Bishop's installation took place during a solemn Eucharistic […]

Lima – What are the Pontifical Mission Societies , what is their mission, and what are their field of action? These questions will be answered in detail in an online course for Bolivarian countries, which begins on January 31. “The National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Bolivarian countries – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia – have joined forces for […]

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states, gives an exclusive interview to EWTN News in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Jan. 20, 2026. Credit: Tim Hotzelmann/EWTN News. Jan 23, 2026 / 06:27 am (CNA). Archbishop Georg Gänswein says last year's change of popes has brought a "whole new positive dimension" to the Vatican."Above all, there has been a change for the better in […]

Myitkyina - The blessing of a new Catholic church and a grotto with the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, the "Regina Pacis," is a significant event in the Diocese of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northern Myanmar. Amid the ongoing civil war, the surrounding area is the scene of violent clashes between the regular army and Kachin ethnic militias, causing immense suffering for the […]

Bishop James D. Conley of the Diocese of the Diocese of Lincoln Nebraska, celebrates Mass at the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Jan. 22. | Credit: EWTN Jan 22, 2026 / 22:17 pm (CNA). Thousands of young Catholics gathered at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Jan. 22 […]

Pope Leo XIV wanted to be present at the March for Life with a message. The post Leo XIV, a pro-life Pope, sends a message to participants in the March for Life in the USA appeared first on ZENIT - English.

He was remembered not as an activist or a polemicist, but as a craftsman of information: a journalist who believed that clarity is a form of service, and that understanding the Church requires patience, historical memory, and intellectual honesty The post John L. Allen Jr. and the task of explaining the Vatican to the world: one of the most important Vaticanists passes away appeared first on […]

For now, Leo XIV appears content to listen, to slow the pace, and to allow ideas championed under his predecessor either to mature organically or quietly recede The post Cardinals, the first consistory of Leo XIV, and Cardinal Zen’s public objections appeared first on ZENIT - English.

The relics of a young Chinese seminarian were brought by Bishop Louis Faurie, Apostolic Vicar of Kweichow, current Chinese Archdiocese of Guiyang, who had met him at the Paris Foreign Missions Seminary, where this Bishop was formed as a seminarian. The post China in the Heart of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris appeared first on ZENIT - English.

The episode highlights a deeper tension shaping contemporary Christianity: the growing influence of evangelical political theology on global affairs, and the unease it generates among older, territorially rooted Christian traditions The post A U.S. Ambassador, Christian Zionism, and an Unusual Clash with the Churches of Jerusalem appeared first on ZENIT - English.