@Dominican_Order I loved Tallinn. The thorough mixture of mediaeval and modern maintains such vibrance. We pray for fruitful outcomes under God's graceful hand.
@Dominican_Order What language do they all use when they meet like this? English? French? Italian? It would be interesting to hear what the lingua franca for these kinds of meetings outside of Rome/Italy.
AMAZING NEWS: By the grace of our Lord, Archbishop Amel Nona (Chaldean Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand) has been elected as the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Archbishop Nona is a strong leader, known for his commitment and dedication to serving God, our faith, and the Chaldean-Iraqi Christian community. We are very pleased with his election and look forward to his continued leadership of the Church. As the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church (the largest Christian Church in Iraq), he will become the de facto leader of the Christian community in Iraq.
May God bless him, guide him, and strengthen him in his service!🙏🏼✝️
@Joeinblack@CatholicHerald Literally what I came here to say. All these Euro-centric liberal trends have been tried already and because they are not following the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they inevitably fail.
@obistiff@Mrbankstips@yungsegzy537 Literally what I was thinking. No one from the annals of history in the Global South. Shaka, Haile Selassie, Qin Shi Huang Di, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Kwame Nkrumah, Pachacuti Inca, Cyrus the Great, Mansa Musa, Rameses II, Tamerlane, Salahuddin... And that's just off the top of my head.
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has banned the ordination of Catholic priests and deacons in four dioceses across the country.
The affected dioceses are Jinotega, Siuna, Matagalpa and Estelí. All four have had their bishops forcibly expelled from the country by the regime.
Seminarians who completed their full theological training in 2024 and 2025 are still waiting. They cannot be ordained.
Researchers warn that without new priests to replace those who have been expelled, the Catholic Church in Nicaragua faces the gradual closure of parishes.
This is not new. Since 2018 the Ortega regime has carried out over 1,070 documented attacks against the Catholic Church. More than 309 priests and nuns have been expelled from the country. Over 16,500 religious processions have been banned.
In February 2026, two Nicaraguan seminarians were secretly ordained as priests in neighboring Costa Rica to avoid government reprisals.
Ortega’s wife and co-president Rosario Murillo, widely known in Nicaragua as La Bruja, meaning The Witch, is openly associated with occult practices and has been a driving force in the campaign against the Church.
The goal appears to be not just to silence the current Church but to prevent the next generation of priests from ever existing.
A miracle no one was injured when 2 drones struck our community, 150 metres from our Catechist Centre that serves 1,000 Catholic children. Our university & schools are also closed so the young can be with their parents. Please pray for us & for all who suffer in this war.
I lived through the eight-year war with Iran. I endured the first and second Gulf wars. I witnessed the violence, displacement, and bombings that shook Iraq after 2003. These are not distant chapters in a history book for myself and my people ; they are our living memories we carry every day.
This isn’t true. There are over 1 million indigenous Apostolic Christians in Iran (Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans), not Evangelical Christians.
U.S. Evangelicals have spent 23+ years pushing for bloody wars in the Middle East that have destroyed ancient Iraqi/Syrian Christian communities. So we would appreciate it if U.S. Evangelicals stop acting as though you speak for Middle East Christians.
📣 Pope Leo XIV’s Message for World Day of Peace 2026 has been published!
“Peace be with you all: Towards unarmed and disarming peace”. 🕊
Read the Message 👇
https://t.co/kn0iOhv74j @vaticannews@pontifex
To our beloved Middle Eastern Christians I say: I deeply sympathise with your feeling that you can do little in the face of this grave situation. You are in the heart of the Pope and of the whole Church. Thank you for your witness of faith. May the Virgin Mary, woman of the Levant, dawn of the new Sun that has risen in history, protect you always and accompany the world towards the dawn of peace.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and gravely wounded others. I pray for the victims, Saad Issa Kostandi Salameh, Foumia Issa Latif Ayyad, Najwa Ibrahim Latif Abu Daoud, and I am particularly close to their families and to all the parishioners.