ACN has reported that 13.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria and 6.3 million people have been internally displaced, while 5.5 million people have fled the country.

Papal visit to Ireland expected to be confirmed as two Irish families set to meet the Pontiff at general audience today.

The Icon card includes the official WMOF2018 prayer and is designed so that it can be set up on the mantelpiece and used throughout the year or used as the prayer before the family sits down to Christmas dinner this year

A Holy Door of Mercy will be opened in Mount St Alphonsus for the nine days of the Novena.

Jubilee pilgrimage will begin in Limerick on the evening of 4 April 2016 and the icon will then travel to every cathedral in the Irish Church's 26 dioceses.

“Our ministries continue to thrive despite difficulties like older age, lack of vocations."

Jubilee year and plenary indulgence for those faithful who participate in IHS devotion.

"The female line idea offers a basis for dialogue with feminist theology.”