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Human traffickers using AI to trap their victims
With human trafficking on the rise globally, the Vatican’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations is highlighting concerns for child victims and refugees – while warning of technological tools used by traffickers to expand their criminal activities. Source: OSV News.
Asset sales, increased donations help Vatican record surplus
The Vatican has reported that it ended 2024 with a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($A2.84m), compared to a deficit of 51.2 million euros ($91m) in 2023. Source: NCR Online.
Pope Leo appoints former Brisbane priest to key Vatican role
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Msgr Anthony Ekpo, who formerly served in the Brisbane Archdiocese, as assessor for general affairs of the Secretariat of State. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Delegation’s visit brings together mission and innovation
A senior Vatican official and Samsung Health executives spent a week in Australia touring Catholic hospitals as part of a visit that brought together mission and innovation. Source: CHA.
Cardinal visiting world’s largest refugee camp calls for more aid
Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Source: CNA.
Vatican finds alleged apparitions of Jesus in France not supernatural
Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus’s second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, the Vatican has announced. Source: Catholic Review.
Cardinal says Vatican no place for Muslim prayer room
The creation of a Muslim prayer room inside the Vatican has drawn the ire of a senior Vatican cardinal. Source: The Australian.
Vatican to issue new document addressing polygamy in Africa
The Vatican will issue a new document on marriage later this month, addressing the question of polygamy in Africa amid continuing pastoral and cultural debate. Source: The Catholic Herald.
Vatican rejects moves to proclaim Mary as co-redemeer
While praising devotion to Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has firmly rejected moves to formally proclaim Mary as “co-redemptrix” or “co-mediatrix”. Source: CNS.