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Bernhard Scholz is president of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, also known as the Rimini meeting, which offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religions and walks of life each year during the last week of August to the town of Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast. / Credit: Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 16:15 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV called for “faith, hope, and charity to be translated into a great cultural conversion” in a message for the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples.

Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Knock, Ireland, Aug 21, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA).

“We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than a decade, told CNA.

View of the Greek island of Syros. / Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA).

Priests in the Catholic Diocese of Syros in Greece face charges in nightclub money laundering scandal.

The Kiruna Church on the move in northern Sweden, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: TorbjørnS/Wikimeda (CC BY 4.0)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 20, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at about 1,600 feet per hour.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux. / Credit: Sistermaryhelen, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Bernard is considered the last of the Church Fathers in the Western tradition.

Young people on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the vigil with Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

One million young people returned to their countries after participating in the 2025 Jubilee of Youth. Now they have a mission: to take that message and testimony home.

Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Toulouse

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:34 pm (CNA).

Archbishop Guy de Kirimel of Toulouse, France, has reversed his decision to appoint as chancellor of the archdiocese a priest convicted of rape.

Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 28, 2017. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Oslo, Norway, Aug 18, 2025 / 12:17 pm (CNA).

Cardinal Anders Arborelius issued a pointed call for unity in the Diocese of Stockholm, clarifying the canonical status of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX).

Greek Catholic Bishop Maksym Ryabukha of the Exarchate of Donetsk, Ukraine. / Credit: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 15:57 pm (CNA).

Maksym Ryabukha, Greek Catholic bishop of the Exarchate of Donetsk, Ukraine, frequently travels to visit what remain of his war-torn parishes.

Before the Angelus on July 13, 2025, Pope Leo XIV celebrated a Mass for local Catholics, religious leaders, and civil authorities at the 17th-century Pontifical Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo’s main square. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 13:22 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV called for a peaceful resolution to the war between Russia and Ukraine ahead of the upcoming summit in Alaska between Trump and Putin.