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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...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
Experts call for increased climate finance to power locally led adaptation initiatives
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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Dr Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO of CIFOR-ICRAF. Photo by CIFOR-ICRAF Despite its minimal contribution to global emissions, Africa faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change. They include rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, intense...
Vengeful ‘Popess’ framed me in Vatican fraud trial, says cardinal
The Times
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A senior Catholic cardinal convicted of embezzlement by the Vatican for his role in a disastrous London property investment has claimed a woman with a grudge may have tried to frame him. Cardinal Angelo Becciu claims he could have been illegally...
VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown”
Fides
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June 26, 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025 abouna.org Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred...
Emine Erdoğan meets Pope Leo XIV on Gaza, climate, family in Vatican
Sabah
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July 2, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan met with Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Wednesday, July 2, where the two leaders held a wide-ranging discussion on global humanitarian concerns, interfaith cooperation and the importance of...
Cardinals from Global South deliver urgent climate appeal at Vatican
Religion News Service
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July 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Warning of “irreversible impacts” if the world stays on its current course, three influential cardinals from the Global South presented a document at the Vatican on Tuesday (July 1) calling for bold international action on...
Vatican report | Credit report focuses on bias against African nations
eNCA
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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis may be dead, but a report he commissioned recommends the current global financial system be overhauled. In a nutshell it seeks to put people and the planet ahead of profit. READ: Pope Francis reflected a resurrection of...
Vatican-backed report urges urgent global action on debt, development crises
Business Hallmark
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June 25, 2025
A landmark new report commissioned by Pope Francis and led by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine Economy Minister Martín Guzmán has called for urgent global action to address mounting debt and development crises facing billions of...
What is the current monetary situation of the Vatican? Who were top donors?
Rome Reports
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July 1, 2025
The Vatican received around 54.3 million euros in 2024. This money came from donations made to Peter’s Pence fund. This fund allocates the vast majority of its donations to the operational expenses of the Holy See. For example, to cover the...
Việt Nam, Vatican seek to deepen bilateral ties
Vietnam News Agency
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ROME — Vice State President Võ Thị Ánh Xuân, on Monday, during her working visit to Italy, paid a courtesy call on Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, highlighting the growing momentum in Việt Nam–Vatican relations. Pope Leo expressed his delight at the...
Vatican report urges overhaul of Africa's debt architecture
African Business
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June 23, 2025
A new Vatican-backed report, unveiled in Rome, calls to overhaul the global financial architecture and fix a debt system that it says is punishing Africa and other developing regions. The Jubilee Report challenges the logic of inequity, arguing...
Children bear ‘heaviest toll’ in growing global conflicts, says Vatican diplomat at UN
OSV News
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June 30, 2025
(OSV News) — Children are among those who bear “the heaviest toll” in the global rise of armed conflict and “the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes,” a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations. “Too many children...
Vatican Backs Report Calling for Financial Reforms to Alleviate Global Debt Crisis
National Catholic Register
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The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries. The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and...
“Their suffering is our suffering”: Vatican Official on Christian Persecution in Nigeria, Calls for Spiritual Solidarity
ACI Africa
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June 30, 2025
Reflecting on the role of ecumenism and interreligious cooperation in times of crisis, Archbishop Nwachukwu underscored the importance of unity and collaboration. “When the room is cold, people come together to share warmth. That is what happens...
Vatican, la banque est au vert mais les finances restent au rouge
FSSPX.NEWS
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Selon le rapport annuel publié le 11 juin 2025 par le site d’information officiel du Saint-Siège Vatican News, l’IOR a enregistré des résultats financiers solides pour l’année 2024, confirmant une trajectoire positive après des années de réformes....
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its €50-60 million deficit
The Malta Independent
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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 Catholics to help...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57 million-$68 million deficit
Washington Examiner
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June 30, 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...
Vatican report flags ‘outsized influence’ of ratings agencies ahead of G20 summit
BusinessLIVE
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‘Africa risk premium’ will be a focus of November’s G20 gathering A report commissioned by the late Pope Francis has called for the reform of private credit ratings agencies, saying they exert “outsized influence on sovereign debt dynamics”, with...
Monday Starter: Salesian Sisters leader appointed to Vatican dicastery
Global Sisters Report
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June 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mother Chiara Cazzuola, superior general of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, as a member of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Expressing gratitude...