Vatican & World News

- Pope Leo XIV makes a pilgrimage to northern Italy to pray at the tomb of St Augustine and to pay tribute to St Frances Cabrini
- The bishops of Macau and Hong Kong, on their ad limina visit to the Vatican, share their experience of synodality
- In a video message to young people participating in a summer camp in the U.S., the Pope says believers are called to be instruments of His peace

- Pope Leo XIV condemns the instability caused by war which forces Christians to flee their native lands
- European bishops express concern for tough new EU migration policy
- The UN Children’s Fund in Lebanon appeals for a real cessation of hostilities as families and children bear the brunt of continued Israeli attacks

- Pope Leo sends a video message for the Tenth Austrian World Summit - an annual climate conference held in Vienna.
- The 'Borgo Dialogues', a new international forum for dialogue on environmental topics, are set to be inaugurated in the papal gardens of Castel Gandolfo.
- A joint declaration signed in Geneva is calling for an end to the use of artificial intelligence in military targeting operations.