Catholic News Agency

• Pope Leo sends 80 generators, medicine, food to Ukraine

  Vatican aid is headed to hard-hit areas including Fastiv and Kyiv, with distribution organized through parish networks.

• Pope Leo XIV approves new statutes of Pontifical International Marian Academy

  Pope Leo XIV approved the new statutes of the Pontifical International Marian Academy, founded to promote and coordinate Mariological and Marian studies worldwide.

• Pope Leo XIV prays for victims of attacks in Nigeria

  In his Angelus catechesis, the pope said true joy is found in communion with Christ and lived through concrete acts of charity.

• Pope Leo XIV will not travel to the United States in 2026, Vatican says

  The pontiff is expected to travel to Africa in April, visit Peru later this year, and make a summer stop in Spain.

• Cuba’s bishops headed to Vatican this month to meet with Pope Leo XIV

  The country’s bishops will travel to Rome from Feb. 16–20 to present to Pope Leo XIV “the vicissitudes, sorrows, joys, and hopes of the Church in Cuba.”