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Joan Roig y Diggle, killed “in odium fidei” during the Spanish Civil War, was raised to the honours of the altar on Saturday. The Mass for the Beatification was celebrated by Cardinal Juan José Omella y Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, who called the 19-year-old martyr “a witness of tenderness.”

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Agreement between the Holy See and Peru, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher speaks about the objectives of Vatican diplomacy.

The Holy See, after having carried out an investigation, has imposed disciplinary sanctions on Polish Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz for abuse of minors and other crimes.

German police search four men’s homes over suspected links with a militant Islamist gunman who shot dead four people in central Vienna tis week. The raids follow revelations that Austria had been warned of a possible attack by neighboring Slovakia.

In a report, two United Nations agencies are warning that critical food insecurity in vulnerable regions of four African countries could lead to famine within months unless conditions improve.

Pope Francis donates a pectoral cross to the International Museum of the Crucifix of Caltagirone, and in a letter encourages the faithful and pilgrims to adhere ever more intensely to Christ: the Way, the Truth and the Life.