Vatican City – November 2023 – Yesterday, 6 November the Paul VI Hall welcomed about 7,500 children from all five continents who arrived to meet Pope Francis as part of the event sponsored by the Dicastery for Culture and Education entitled “Children meet the Pope”. After the initial greeting by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, and a performance by singer Mr. Rain, the children welcomed the Holy Father in an atmosphere of great joy. The Pontiff, responding to the children’s questions, addressed delicate issues such as peace and the care of the planet. Pope Francis involved all those present, inviting them to join in praying the Our Father, followed by a minute of silence for the victims of conflict. The event then ended on the notes of the famous song "We are the world" and with a choreography with the globes that were raised to symbolise the land that everyone, starting from the youngest, must take care of.

(ANS – Vatican City) – At the closing Mass of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis speaks of the “conversation of the Spirit,” experienced in "the loving presence of the Lord" and discovered in "the beauty of fraternity."

(ANS - Vatican City) - On the evening of Thursday, 19 October 2023, at the end of the work of the 13th General Congregation of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, a special moment of prayer took place in St. Peter's Square, at the Angel Unawares sculpture. Presided over by Pope Francis, in the presence of the various participants in the Synod. It was dedicated to those who have lost their lives along the different migratory routes, their families, those who have survived, and all refugees and migrants who are still on their way. "It is necessary to redouble efforts to combat criminal networks, to indicate safer routes and to commit to expanding regular migration channels," said the Holy Father.

(ANS – Vatican City) – Harmony between context and words. This is what happened yesterday, 5 October, in the splendid setting of the Vatican Gardens, at the Largo della Radio, where the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, published on Wednesday, 4 October, was presented to the press. Unanimous on the part of the invited academics, scholars, activists, representatives of civil society and the world of culture, the consensus for a document integrating the Encyclical Laudato Si'of eight years ago, that urges institutions and nations to an urgent commitment to face the consequences of global climate change.

(ANS – Vatican City) – Pope Francis presides at the Holy Mass in St Peter’s Square for the Opening of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, and invites the faithful to walk with the Holy Spirit, “in trust and with joy”. Also concelebrating the Mass was the newly appointed Cardinal Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, the Rector Major of the Salesians, who had been invited along with the other members of the College of Cardinals.

(ANS – Vatican City) – On the day that the Universal Church celebrates St Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis published "Laudate Deum" – an Apostolic Exhortation on the climate crisis – to expand and update his first encyclical on the subject, Laudato Si 'signed on 24 May 2015 and published on 18 June 2015.