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Pope Leo XIV has sent 80 electric generators and thousands of medical supplies to Ukraine to help civilians cope with freezing winter temperatures and constant attacks, the Vatican announced on Feb. 9. The aid was arranged in response to appeals from bishops who warned of mounting difficulties caused by Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure and subzero temperatures across the country. Three trucks carrying the generators and medical supplies departed from the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome and have already arrived in Fastiv and Kyiv, areas heavily affected by recent strikes. Alongside the generators, thousands of medical supplies were delivered,...

<p>Senior Vatican Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has said Pope Leo XIV is continuing the legacy of Pope Francis.</p><p>On April 13, Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, stated in an interview given to Italian newspaper Il Giornale that it is inaccurate to claim Pope Leo XIV intends to overturn his predecessor’s pontificate, emphasizing instead continuity through specific initiatives and teachings promoted within the Church. The interview marked the approaching first anniversary of Pope Francis’s death, on April 21.</p>

<p>On April 16, during the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Bamenda, Cameroon, Fon Fru Asaah Angwafor IV, the tribal leader of the Mankon community, spoke about polygamy. He made the remarks during an interreligious peace meeting in the cathedral.</p>

America Reads the Bible runs April 18–25, 2026. The Opening Celebration is April 18, followed by seven days of live Bible readings April 19–25. President Trump will be reading Scripture, too.

The UCC is a really interesting denomination because it was once a genuine powerhouse in American Protestantism. The UCC was formed in 1957 through a merger of two older traditions—the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. And for the record, Congregationalism mattered a lot in early American history. In The American Religious Landscape, I make the point that Congregationalists likely represented the single largest religious tradition during the Revolutionary era. Today, the UCC is best understood as a mashup of Congregational polity—especially its strong emphasis on local church autonomy—and German Reformed theology. It’s one of the so-called...

Dear Friends, In light of our EXPONENTIALLY deteriorating and growing godless nation, where both political parties are abandoning Almighty God, our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator’s moral and spiritual laws, as well as His natural laws, let us carefully hear from the ghosts of our American Founding Fathers and their prophetic warnings to us in 2026. Dear friends, please do not think President Trump is our American savior. Thank Almighty God that he is seeking to do some good, and he is in many ways doing so, but we are a million miles from the point of NO RETURN, and are moving...

The secular sabotage from fifth-column apostate Americans is almost complete, don't think so? Just look at our deeply rooted anti-God America. You might say also, but Trump, but Trump, but Trump! Well, thank God for the common sense of President Trump; in light of Almighty God's providence, we would now be an ash heap of a nation without him, but we are now living in the era of the new new Republican Party, where common sense may be used, but godless, moral relativism is embraced as frosting on a debauched, maggot filled cake, or as shiny gloss paint on an...

The Presbyterian Church (USA) recently reviewed a report examining the reasons why some members have quit giving to the liberal mainline denomination. PC(USA), A Corporation, an entity that oversees the business of the denomination, heard a presentation last week from Research Services representative Sean Payne on the issue of why Presbyterians were halting their giving. According to the report, a copy of which was emailed to The Christian Post by a PC(USA) spokesperson on Tuesday, researchers contacted over 17,000 donors who had last given to the denomination between Jan. 1, 2019, and September 2024. The survey asked people two questions:...

Italian bishop backs imam’s presentation of Islam inside Catholic parish churchArchbishop Giovanni Intini attended an April 15 event at an Italian parish where local Imam Khaled Bouchelaghem delivered what journalist Andrea Zambrano called an ‘Islamic catechism. An imam delivered a presentation of the Islamic faith inside a Catholic parish church in Brindisi, Italy, with the participation of the local bishop.On April 15, the parish of San Lorenzo in Brindisi, southern Italy, hosted an event titled “Do You Know Islam? Let us explore together the pillars, the meaning of life, and the celebrations of the Islamic faith,” in which Imam Khaled...

To be a Christian in Iran 50 years ago meant to be a part of small ethnic groups of Armenians, Chaldeans, or Assyrians– communities of a few hundred thousand that had lived in Iran for centuries. Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, there were only a few hundred converts to Christianity from the country’s majority religion, Islam. When the revolution successfully overthrew the secular monarchy, or Shah, it was reasonable to expect that the tiny Christian populations would diminish and that Christianity would be stifled under the newly applied Sharia law of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For the...

As sons and daughters of Israel today from all around the world, along with evangelical believers in the Messiah and global supporters of Israel's right to exist, we soberly reflect on Holocaust Remembrance Day. What is absolutely astounding is that after such horrific mass genocide of the children of Israel by Nazi Germany, the nation of Israel, eighty years later, is now established as one of the leading nations in the world and is now the sole superpower in the Middle East. Israel is a sign to the world in these last Days that the G-d of Israel has not...

And this is why beloved… The Iranian leadership’s suicidal and destructive apocalyptic ideology is not only demon-driven but is hell-bent on total destruction and death at any cost, in light of their demonic, full-blown defiance. When a fully controlled demonic mind is more than zealous and willing to make all expendable to outwork their demonic vision and beliefs, you will see there is absolutely no talking with them. Even after the near total obliteration of all of their leadership, national defense, and structure, they still are huge middle fingers to all and desire the destruction of all. One might ask,...

The Divine Mercy plenary indulgence is probably the most powerful grace you can receive all year. The feast of the Divine Mercy is the first Sunday following Easter Sunday. In Saint Faustina’s diary, Jesus explains how to obtain the unique graces on Divine Mercy Sunday: “The soul that will go to confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day, all the Divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though his sins be as scarlet….Mankind will not have peace until it turns...

Dear brothers and sisters, Your prayer is an expression of that faith which, according to the words of Jesus, moves mountains (cf. Mt 17:20). Thank you for accepting this invitation to gather here at the tomb of Saint Peter and in so many other places around the world to pray for peace... In the context of the 2003 Iraq war crisis, Saint John Paul II, a tireless advocate for peace, said with deep emotion: “I belong to that generation that lived through World War II and, thanks be to God, survived it. I have the duty to say to all...

Consternation as Pope Leo meets with former Obama advisor David AxelrodIt is being speculated that the Axelrod meeting could have been preparation for Pope Leo to eventually meet Obama himself.Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod, a former advisor to President Barack Obama, in a private audience on Thursday.The Vatican confirmed the meeting with Axelrod and his “entourage,” but details about what was discussed have not been made public. Pope Leo was allegedly 30 minutes late to another meeting because his audience with Axelrod overran.The meeting came in the wake of reports that back in January, the Trump administration demanded...

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, My heart is heavy as I look toward Lebanon – a land long marked by faith, suffering, and perseverance. Lebanon is not merely another nation in conflict. It is home to one of the oldest and largest Christian populations in the Middle East, where the name of Jesus Christ has been professed continuously since the earliest centuries of the Church. In that sacred land stands the shrine of St. Charbel Makhlouf, a humble monk whose life of prayer, penance, and Eucharistic devotion has borne extraordinary fruit. Known as the “miracle monk of Lebanon,”...

A Giant Leap: The meaning of Cardinal Eijk’s Pontifical High Mass and the Rebirth of Dutch Catholicismby Serre VerweijCardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, the Archbishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands, celebrated on March 15th, 2026, a Pontifical High Mass for the first time. It somehow ended up being a huge event that was talked about internationally and still receives attention weeks later. As a Catholic from the Archdiocese of Utrecht, I was surprised a little (though very pleasantly) that the cardinal decided to do this. It was clearly a new experience for him, yet, when I attended, I could see he...

Dear friends, on the very day that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead, our risen Savior and Lord clearly defined to all what a fool truly is. A fool as defined by the Word of God Himself (the Lord Jesus - John 1:1-3,14), is anyone who will not properly reason with themselves with the overwhelming biblical facts of TRUTH and REALITY of who Jesus is! The fool absolutely refuses to believe ALL that the Word of God (the Lord Jesus) has to say about the written Word of God - Matt. 5:17, Luke 24:27, 44, John 1:1-3;14 5:39,46, Acts...

The number of candidates preparing to be received into the Catholic Church across England at Easter is at its highest level for 15 years. Dioceses across the country are reporting increases, with Shrewsbury Cathedral holding an additional service to accommodate record numbers of adults seeking baptism and admission into the Church. In a statement, the Diocese of Shrewsbury said: “The numbers of people asking to become Catholics in the Diocese of Shrewsbury – which includes all of Shropshire, Cheshire, the Wirral and parts of Greater Manchester – has almost doubled in the past three years. “The surge in new converts...

the life of Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo offers a striking witness to how stone itself can become a path to faith. For Sotoo, whose decades of carving at Spanish Barcelona’s Basilica of the Holy Family, known as Sagrada Familia, have shaped one of the world’s great sacred spaces, the slow, humbling work of sculpting stone ultimately led him to encounter the God whom Antoni Gaudí — Sagrada’s iconic architect — served, and to enter the Catholic Church through baptism. . Studying the life and vision of Sagrada’s legendary architect — and a spiritual giant — not only shaped his artistic...