Caritas Australia is urging Australians to support communities devastated by catastrophic flooding in Nepal as local partner Caritas Nepal expands its emergency response to reach families who have lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones. As the scale of the disaster continues to emerge, hundreds of lives have been lost, thousands of people are still missing or unaccounted for, and there is w...

By OSV News Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray "for evangelisation in the city" as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord to accompany millions searching for meaning amid the noise and haste of urban life. In his monthly Pray with the Pope video, Pope Leo expressed his hope that urban environments may provide "fertile ground" for proclaiming the Gospel. The Chicago-born ...