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Meloni Should Lead the Way on Ukraine’s Economic Recovery
CEPA
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July 7, 2025
Italy will host the fourth annual Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Rome on July 10-11. Past recovery conferences have been held in Lugano (2022), London (2023), and Berlin (2024), but none produced meaningful results. Rome 2025 can be...
Vatican leak undermines Pope Francis and inflames debate over Latin Mass
The Independent
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July 3, 2025
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VATICAN - Climate crisis and ecological debt, the Bishops of Asia, Africa and Latin America: the “green Economy” risks being reduced to “modernization of capitalism”
Fides
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July 1, 2025
Tuesday, 1 July 2025 Wolfgang Hasselmann. Pixabay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Saying “enough” to “false solutions” and calling on rich countries to settle “with urgent action” the ecological debt owed to the poorest nations. This is the meaning...
Vatican Radio participates in European Broadcasting Summit in London
Vatican News
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June 30, 2025
From 2 to 4 July, the BBC headquarters in London host the 94th General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), marking the organisation's 75th anniversary. Vatican Radio, a founding member of the EBU, will be represented by Alessandro...
Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
Religion News Service
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June 30, 2025
(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science....
Vatican launches American-style campaign to help erase a $58-million deficit
Los Angeles Times
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June 30, 2025
ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Roman Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary...
Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $97-116 million deficit
1News
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Pope Leo XIV today celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary Catholics to help bail...
Financial aid sought in Leo’s first feast day
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 30, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. ROME -- Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican...
Kenyan, South African, Burkinabe Catholic Bishops among New Members to Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
ACI Africa
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July 4, 2025
The Chairman of the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) was appointed the Local Ordinary of Malindi Diocese in December 2020 and ordained as Bishop in March 2021, succeeding the late Bishop Emanuel Barbara. Before his Episcopal appointment,...
Rising hunger and poverty impacting families in the West Bank
Vatican News
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July 4, 2025
Hunger, poverty, and uncertainty are increasing across the West Bank. A new report reveals that 74% of families now live below the minimum standard of living, with the most affected being children. By Janina Eddy A report just released by World...
How to Solve the Development Crisis With Quality Finance
Project Syndicate - New York
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With debt increasingly crippling low- and middle-income countries, overhauling the prevailing approach to development has never been more urgent. If poor and developing countries are ever to transform their economies and fulfill their development...
Turkey’s first lady meets Pope Leo XIV in Vatican
BNE Intellinews
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Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdogan (@EmineErdogan), has met with Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) in the Vatican, the country’s presidency said on July 2. The meeting was held during Erdogan’s visit to attend the “Fraternal Economy Session on Ethical...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68 million deficit
The Nassau Guardian
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July 3, 2025
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary...
African bishop slams ‘outdated, biased’ global finance system
Crux Now
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July 3, 2025
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Nigerian Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto says the global financial system is outdated and failing people,” particularly in Africa. The bishop’s comments to Crux came in the wake of the Jubilee Report published recently by...
First Lady urges stronger Gaza support in Vatican meeting
Hurriyet Daily News
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VATICAN CITY First Lady Emine Erdoğan on Wednesday met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Erdoğan, who is at the Vatican to speak at the event Fraternal Economy Session on Ethical Multilateralism hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences,...
Vatican publishes the note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’
Zenit
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June 28, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.27.2025).- The thematic note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’, signed by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, was published on Tuesday 23 June and can be downloaded in 5 languages....
First lady Emine Erdoğan pushes for global justice in Vatican visit
Sabah
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July 3, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan delivered a passionate plea for global justice and solidarity during her keynote speech at the “Brotherhood-Based Economy: Ethical Multilateralism” conference at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Business Leaders Called To Align Tech Decisions With Corporate Values
Forbes
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Signs point to an emerging, if informal, social contact on AI deployment.AFP via Getty Images With the rapid rollout of AI, corporate leaders are increasingly being called to consider the proper alignment between technology strategies and...
Resetting development finance
Bangkok Post
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July 2, 2025
At the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development this week in Seville, delegates are calling for urgent action to fix a system that has stopped working. Prior to the third such gathering a decade ago, in Ethiopia, we had...