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🙏🇻🇦 New photographs of Pope Leo XIV have been released three days after his surgery.

The day also brought his highest number of visitors and phone calls since hospitalization.

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⛪🇹🇷 Names denied, properties demolished: Christians in Turkey face concerns over religious identity and heritage.

The situation raises questions about minority rights and religious freedom.

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🏥🇻🇦 Will Pope Leo XIV travel to South America?

As he recovers from lung surgery, the Pope has requested an in-person meeting with a senior Vatican official.

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📱🇰🇷 World Youth Day Seoul 2027 has launched a new app to help pilgrims prepare for the international gathering.

A digital resource for young Catholics looking ahead to this global celebration of faith.

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🇺🇸📊 Trump’s approval among U.S. Catholics has fallen to 30%, according to Pew Research Center.

The survey also finds contrasting congressional preferences among white and Hispanic Catholic voters.

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🎬🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV appears in a scene from a new film about St. Peter featuring Chris Pratt.

The unexpected connection brings attention to the apostle’s enduring legacy.

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🇻🇦🏥OFFICIAL Extended Post-Surgery Update on Leo XIV: Thursday, October 15 (afternoon)

As part of the resumption of his duties, sources from the Holy See Press Office reported that the Pope met this afternoon with Paolo Rudelli, Substitute of the Secretariat of State

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🤖⚠️ A priest with amputated legs asking for donations. A moving story. But it was all AI-generated.

A suspected scam in Brazil targeted Catholics using fictional characters and a fake appeal for prosthetics.

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⚖️🇵🇰 A Pakistani court orders the reopening of a case involving a young Christian woman reportedly abducted, forcibly converted and married to an older man.

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⚖️🇺🇸 A Pentagon plan to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood attacker has sparked objections from Catholic leaders.

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Church's opposition to capital punishment.

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🙏🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV is walking, eating normally and celebrating Mass after lung surgery.

His recovery is progressing as expected, although further test results are still pending.

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⚖️🇪🇸 Catholic movement Hakuna faces a lawsuit in Spain over alleged plagiarism.

The dispute raises questions about authorship and intellectual property. No finding of wrongdoing should be presumed.

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🇵🇰⚖️ Pakistan has passed a bill to reform Christian marriage law, marking a significant development for the country’s Christian minority.

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⛪🇻🇦 Cardinals Mario Grech and Kevin Farrell address Pope Leo XIV’s absence from a meeting on Amoris Laetitia.

The gathering renews attention to the Church’s pastoral mission toward families.

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💍⛪ Is the crisis of marriage connected to the Church’s wider challenges?

A study examines the relationship and offers four recommendations for strengthening marriage and family life.

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🙏🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV’s lung surgery was successful. The Vatican has confirmed pulmonary adenocarcinoma.

Further tests will determine whether additional treatment is needed.

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3/3 The Holy Father received respiratory physical therapy and began walking around his room. He has resumed his usual diet, eating breakfast and lunch.

His recovery is proceeding as planned.

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🇻🇦🏥 1/3 OFFICIAL Extended Postoperative Update on Leo XIV: Tuesday, October 13

Dr. Luigi Carbone and Prof. Stefano Margaritora report the following regarding the Pope’s postoperative recovery:

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2/3 This morning, the Holy Father underwent the blood tests and chest X-ray scheduled following the surgery. The results confirm a normal postoperative recovery: the values are within the normal range for the type of surgery performed.