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Field visit in the disaster zone in December 2025: Father Fredy Rante Taruk (executive director of Caritas Indonesia), and Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, OSC, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia.

Catholic Church responds to deadly Indonesia floods as leaders warn of environmental crisis

Dec 24, 2025

By Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves

Amid the widespread destruction, Caritas Indonesia has emerged as a central pillar of the Church’s humanitarian response. Read more

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Field visit in the disaster zone in December 2025: Father Fredy Rante Taruk (executive director of Caritas Indonesia), and Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, OSC, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia.

Catholic Church responds to deadly Indonesia floods as leaders warn of environmental crisis

Christmas recital at the Sacred Hearts School in Kfardebian, Lebanon.

Christmas recital in Lebanon aims for Guinness World Record

Olive Scout Troop Christmas Carnival in Old Damascus, 2025.

Syria celebrates Christmas with hope amid lingering security fears

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Religious sisters offer abortion clinic workers Christmas cards with resources and prayers

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus on Dec. 21, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV revives tradition during first Christmas of his pontificate

A variety of fish dishes served on Christmas Eve.

Where does the ‘Feast of the 7 Fishes’ Christmas Eve tradition come from?

After delaying restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass for three months, Bishop Michael Martin said in a Sept. 26, 2025, letter that the Chapel of the Little Flower in the St. Therese Parish in Mooresville, North Carolina, which was recently renovated by the diocese and can seat just over 350 people, will have two Masses each Sunday and on holy days of obligation,

‘Everybody’s had it’: Backlash to Charlotte bishop’s ban of altar rails, kneelers

The Berlaymont building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission.

Catholic federation denounces withdrawal of EU funds due to ideological bias

Rome’s International Conference on Human Trafficking was held at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Dec. 10, 2025.

Trafficking victims rise worldwide as experts, survivors call for stronger action

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130 students and teachers kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria released

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