Pope Leo XIV, in a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin, asked for a ceasefire in the area of the occupied Oleshky in Ukraine’s Kherson region so that food and medicine could be delivered there and residents evacuated. This was reported by the Vatican press service.

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On October 11, the former head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, blessed an icon created with the help of artificial intelligence at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the Belarusian town of Novolukoml. The image depicts Carlo Acutis, whom the Vatican canonized in 2025.

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Pope Leo XIV said that in the coming days he will undergo surgery after a lung nodule was discovered during a medical examination. The 71-year-old pontiff made the statement during Sunday prayer in St. Peter’s Square in Rome.

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Pope Leo XIV has sent his special envoy to Moscow, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, for talks on Ukraine. Zuppi told TASS that he is flying out on September 27 and that meetings with representatives of the Russian authorities are scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

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Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to France on Friday. The trip comes after the country enshrined the right to abortion in the constitution and finally approved a law on aid for the dying.

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The head of the Vatican’s diplomatic department, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, met in Moscow with Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. The Holy See’s Secretariat of State said that the talks covered current topics on the international agenda.

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