The Holy See is asking for measures to keep the production of biofuels from bringing about increased food prices to the point of threatening starvation in many countries.
Monsignor Renato Volante, the permanent observer of the Holy See at the Rome-based U.N. Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), participated in the FAO Regional Conference for Latin [...]

Monsignor Hopes World Comes to Recognize Genocide
By Robert Cheaib
A Mass in Rome celebrated by the rector of the Pontifical Armenian College was among many events marking the 93rd anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Armenians.
Monsignor Hovsep Kelekian celebrated the Mass in the Armenian church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine.
He lamented the lack of an [...]

Journalists, editors, publishers, marketing professionals and all those involved in the field of social communications will join in a special jubilee celebration in Lourdes this May, as part of the itinerary marking the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady.
The May 29-30 jubilee is being organized by the communications council of the French episcopal [...]

  Given below is the text of a declaration by Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. concerning the meeting between the Holy Father and Giorgio Napolitano, president of the Italian Republic, prior to yesterday evening’s concert in the Paul VI Hall:
  “During the meeting, which lasted around 15 minutes and was characterised [...]

Bishops in the state of Victoria are urging Australians to keep abortion as part of the Crimes Act, even though the state already has abortion on demand in practice.
In a pastoral letter signed by six prelates and an apostolic administrator, Church leaders urged Victoria to adopt laws that maintain abortion as a crime, and to [...]

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