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Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on June 17, 2015. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA.Rome Newsroom, May 22, 2023 / 04:40 am (CNA).The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will travel to Lisbon, Portugal for World Youth Day this August with a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.Pope Francis is set to participate in World Youth Day from Aug. 2 to 6 and is scheduled to visit Fatima on Aug. 5. The Lisbon trip will mark the 86-year-old pope's fourth World Youth Day after taking part in the international Catholic gatherings in Panama, Poland, and Brazil.World ...

Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtue of Brazil's "Surfer Angel" Guido Schäffer in a decree issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on May 20, 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesty of guidoschaffer.com.brVatican City, May 22, 2023 / 11:15 am (CNA).The Catholic Church is one step closer to canonizing a surfing saint. Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtue of Brazil's "Surfer Angel" Guido Schäffer in a decree issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on Saturday. Schäffer was a seminarian, a doctor, and a surfer who drowned while surfing in 2009...

Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli address on May 21, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, May 21, 2023 / 06:40 am (CNA).One week after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Francis urged that "we must not get used to war" as he prayed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan.In his Regina Caeli address on May 21, the pope entreated people to "continue to stand by the battered people of Ukraine" more than one year after Russia's invasion.The day prior, Pope Francis entrusted Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi with a peace mission on behalf of the Vatican to try to h...

Pope Francis at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 17, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 21, 2023 / 08:40 am (CNA).In a letter marking the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Pope Francis asserted that the mere possession of nuclear weapons creates "a climate of fear and suspicion" and offers "only an illusion of peace."The Vatican released a letter on May 20 that the pope wrote to Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama of Hiroshima assuring his prayers as "the G7 Summit meets in Hiroshima to discuss urgent issues currently facing the global community."&quo...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Portoviejo, Eduardo José Castillo Pino, asked the faithful to pray for the end of violence in Ecuador and expressed his solidarity with the victims and injured left by a shooting that occurred Thursday morning at a funeral home in Manta, a port city on the central coast."Once more, crime and terror again destroy the lives of so many people, and fill us all with fear and insecurity," the prelate said in a May 18 statement to ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner."For the victim...