In an interview with Vatican News, West Sumatra's Bishop Vitus Rubianto Solichin of Padang, Indonesia, discusses the tragic flooding that has slammed the region, attributing it and other natural calamities to climate change, and explains challenges to providing aid.

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In a wide-ranging interview with Vatican Media, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in New York, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, observes that ‘military solutions’ do not work and therefore other paths must be taken; and warns that dangers of nuclear arms pose concrete threats to the existence of humanity.

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The leadership of the US-based humanitarian aid organization Cross Catholic Outreach visits the Vatican and meets Pope Francis as it renews its partnership in assisting the Pope's global charitable activities.

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In his Message for the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will take place on 28 July 2024, Pope Francis recognizes the situation of many elderly people today, and assures them: “God never abandons His children, never.”

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The Laocoön group is a defining piece of the Vatican Museums that was found nearly intact underground in a vineyard in 1506. Its right arm was discovered just meters from that spot, 400 years later. The discovery is credited to the Jewish art dealer Ludwig Pollak, who was targeted by the Nazis but refused protection from the Vatican. He was deported and killed at Auschwitz. Attempts to save him by his friend and then director of the pontifical galleries, Bartolomeo Nogara, were in vain.

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In commemoration of the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, Christians in Mozambique’s City of Beira lit votive candles and prayed their the Rosary, asking the Blessed Virgin Mary’s intercession for peace in the troubled region. Since 2017, terrorist attacks have targeted Mozambique’s Province of Cabo Delgado.

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Pope Francis replies to letter that children being cared for at an Italian hospital sent him when he had been experiencing health issues. He offers them his heartfelt thanks for their kind words and good wishes, imploring the Blessed Mother to watch over them, and urging them to find a ray of light in the darkness of illness.

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UNICEF and other aid agencies are sending relief teams and desperately needed humanitarian aid to northeastern Afghanistan where unusually heavy rains have killed at least 300 people, swept away homes and damaged vital farmland.

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According to a Reuters report, Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, the country’s President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.

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Meeting with students at a number of Vatican institutions, Pope Francis warns against the “toxic, unhealthy and violent” information that can lurk in social media.

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