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The Holy See Press Office Director, Matteo Bruni, has presented Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic journey, which will take him to Ankara, Istanbul, and Beirut, with a significant stop in İznik, ancient Nicaea, for the 1700th anniversary of the Council. The pilgrimage carries a strong ecumenical character and places interreligious dialogue at its center...

In the unity of faith, proclaimed since the beginning of the Church, Christians have been called to walk in harmony, guarding and transmitting the gift they have received with love and joy. This is expressed in the words of the Creed, “I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God... for our salvation he came down from heaven,” that were formulated 1700 years ago by the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical gathering in the history of Christianity.

Ahead of his upcoming Apostolic Journey to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV issued on Sunday, 23 November, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the Apostolic Letter 'In unitate fidei' on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. The full Letter, which has the hope of "encouraging the whole Church to renew her enthusiasm for the profession of faith," is broken down into twelve points...

More than 300 children and staff are now thought to have been kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the worst mass abductions the country has seen.The Christian Association of Nigeria said 303 students and 12 teachers were taken from on St Mary's School in Papiri, Niger state - substantially more than previously estimated.

In a firm call to avoid “false mercy” in marriage annulment proceedings, Pope Leo XIV reminded that compassion cannot disregard the truth. During a Friday audience with participants in the legal-pastoral training course of the Roman Rota, the Holy See’s court of appeals, the Holy Father read a lengthy speech in which he recalled the importance of the reform of marriage annulment processes initiated by Pope Francis 10 years ago.

God created us, his beloved children, to “have dominion” over all things on earth, giving us every plant, every animal and every bird. We were to rule in his place in Paradise — and God saw his plan working and said it was “very good.” But then we blew it. We agreed with Satan that God is a tyrant and took God’s kingdom, and we handed it over to his enemy...