Abruzzo is the region that in 2025 will offer the oil that fuels the Votive Lamp that burns day and night in Assisi, at the tomb of St. Francis, patron saint of Italy. The event, which is repeated each year with the participation of a different region on the feast of Oct. 4, involves the entire ...

Having learned the news from the Holy See Press Office bulletin of the appointment of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B., as the new Pontifical Legate for the Papal Basilicas of Assisi, Friar Marco Moroni, OFMConv, Custos of the Sacred Convent, said: "For us Franciscans it is a sign ...

In light of the events that have affected the Holy Land in recent days, particularly the Christians in the West Bank, and following the appeal of the Patriarchs and Heads of the local Churches of Jerusalem, transmitted by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, we reproduce below the statement condemning ...