Every year, on October 21, tens of thousands of pilgrims travel to Portobelo, a fishing town in Panama, to pray to the black-skinned, sad-eyed Christ who captivates everyone with his gaze. On October 21, 1658, one of the three legends about the origin of the Cristo Negro de Portobelo began: a ship coming from distant…
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In this missionary month, Bishop Adolfo Zon Pereira of Alto Solimões, Amazonia, Brazil, reflects: “To the chair of Peter, Pope Leo brings the experience of a shepherd with the smell of the sheep, of a missionary who learned to evangelize on his knees, while listening”. In the silence of the peripheries, where the Gospel often…
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On October 19, 2025, World Mission Day, Pope Leo XIV will canonise Peter To Rot. The first saint of Papua New Guinea. The Tolai people live on the Gazelle Peninsula, in the northeast of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They are one of dozens of ethnic groups that populate the archipelago surrounding…
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The Nicaraguan bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez Lagos, who has been living in exile since January 2024, is among the most prominent victims of the religious persecution carried out by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, against the Catholic Church since 2018. If there is one person that Daniel Ortega and…
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The campaign to safeguard the Vjosa River from a surge in hydropower dam projects led to its historic designation as the Vjosa Wild River National…
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On that day, an elephant, a mouse, a woman, and a thief appeared before Kalaga, who was seated in court to hear the grievances of his subjects…
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We met some of the young people who had come to Rome for the Youth Jubilee. (July 28 – August 3). The underground, streets, buses, and bars…
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