Alexey Gotovskiy

Alexey Gotovskiy

Alexey Gotovskiy has worked at the EWTN Vatican Bureau as a journalist, TV producer, and manager for the last seven years. He was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in Russia, was raised in Kazakhstan, and received his graduate-level education in Church communications at the Roman Pontifical University of Holy Cross.

Articles by Alexey Gotovskiy

Pierre Louvrier (center) speaks during the “Schuman Plan 2.0 — Europe’s Role in a Fragmented World” debate at the European Parliament, Nov. 11, 2025. Credit: Maria Grazia Ricciardi

Peace plan inspired by Catholic EU founder proposed at European Parliament debate

Nov 19, 2025 / 09:45 am

A peace plan inspired by Venerable Robert Schuman was proposed at the European Parliament, envisioning cooperation across the Northern Hemisphere.

Gertrude Detzel (1903–1971), born in the Caucasus region of the Russian Empire, was later deported to Kazakhstan and became a key figure in the underground Catholic community. Credit: Diocese of Karaganda

Meet the laywoman who kept Catholic faith alive in Soviet camps

Oct 27, 2025 / 15:23 pm

Gertrude Detzel kept the Catholic faith alive in Soviet Kazakhstan through decades of persecution. Her sainthood cause has now reached Rome.

Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad speaks to EWTN News in September 2025. Credit: EWTN News

Cardinal Koovakad defends Catholic dialogue with other religions as global tensions rise

Sep 23, 2025 / 10:35 am

In an interview with EWTN News, Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, the prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, defended the Church’s diplomatic outreach.

The venue of the VIII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. Credit: N. Nazarbayev Center for Development of Interfaith and Inter-Civilization Dialogue

New Vatican interfaith team to meet Russian patriarch, leading imam in Kazakhstan

Sep 13, 2025 / 07:00 am

Religious leaders from China, Russia, and the Vatican are converging in Kazakhstan on Sept. 17–18 for the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.

Iman Hijaze and her mother, Hadidza, at St. Joseph’s House. Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/EWTN Vatican Bureau

How a stolen rosary led one young woman to the Catholic Church

Apr 20, 2025 / 07:00 am

Iman Hijaze was raised in a culturally Shiite Muslim household and considered herself an atheist until she picked up a rosary one day and put it in her pocket.

Cross overlooking the Casentino Valley. Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy EWTN / CNA

PHOTOS: La Verna in Tuscany marks 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ stigmata

Sep 18, 2024 / 17:30 pm

Crowds gathered on Sept, 17 in the Casentino Valley in Italy for the 800th anniversary celebration of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata, the wounds of Christ.

Father Andrew Tin Nguyen, parish priest of Mary Help of Christians in Darkhan, Mongolia, with Tsetsegee, who found a statue of the Blessed Mother in a landfill, which will be blessed by Pope Francis during his trip to Mongolia from Aug. 31–Sept. 4, 2023. Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Andrew Tin Nguyen

How Blessed Mary found her way to Mongolia

Aug 31, 2023 / 13:00 pm

Upon arriving in Mongolia, Pope Francis will bless the Statue of Our Lady, known as “Heavenly Mother.”

Pope Francis and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. Mazur/cbcew.org.uk/Олександр Гаврик via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Vatican reassures Ukrainian Catholics that pope did not intend to praise Russian imperialism

Aug 29, 2023 / 10:34 am

Pope Francis made the comment while speaking off the cuff during a live video conference with Russian youth Aug. 25. 

Young Catholics participating in the 10th edition of the Russian Youth Gathering in St. Petersburg, Russia, watch a livestream of Pope Francis at the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria on Aug. 25, 2023. Credit: Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria

Pope Francis encourages young Russian Catholics to be ‘bridge builders’

Aug 26, 2023 / 13:45 pm

Without referring directly to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Holy Father called on the youth to pursue peace “in the midst of so many conflicts.”