The Supreme Court orders the immediate release of the woman sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy. State of maximum alert in the country for threats from radical groups .

Asia Bibi has been acquitted. Today, October 31, at 9:20 a.m. (5:20 a.m. in Italy), the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared innocent the Christian woman arrested in 2009 and sentenced to death in 2010 for alleged blasphemy, ordering her immediate release. The tragic ordeal of Asia Bibi ended after more than 9 years of imprisonment, isolation and suffering.

The Pope from the Far West looks auspiciously to the Far East. Pope Francis’ special pastoral care for the small communities of the faithful in the Asian continent is expressed and substantiated with ever greater clarity during his pontificate. And it could have a worthy crowning with a trip to Tokyo, Beijing and Pyongyang.

Stories of coexistence between the faithful of the two religions. The memory of the attacks by the al-Shabbab militias, the return to calm, inter-religious dialogue, the works of the Church in the interview with Bishop Joseph Alessandro.

The Synod on Youth, which began on Wednesday, October 3 and will end next Sunday, October 28, is preparing to discuss, and then vote on, the final document. Today the Synod Fathers had a day of "vacation", "all except those who are working in the commissions in charge of the Letter to the Youth and the final document, which will be presented tomorrow”, the Prefect of the Department for Communication, Paolo Ruffini said during the daily briefing in the Vatican Press Room.

Last year in October, US President Donald Trump tweeted out to the world: “being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years, why would it work now?” Just months before he had called North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un “little rocket man” and threatened him with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”.

On Thursday, October 18,2018, Pope Francis received a verbal invitation from South Korean President Moon Jae-in from Pyongyang leader Kim Jong-un. And does not rule out a potential trip.

The Pope meets with the pilgrims from El Salvador in Rome for Romero’s canonization. Archbishop Escobar asked that the martyr become a “doctor of the Church” and that Rutilio Grande be beatified. The embrace to Angelita Morales, close to the saint until the day of his assassination.

“I imagine her as a normal girl, a girl of today, open to getting married, to having a family”. Pope Francis speaks of Our Lady, and explains the Hail Mary prayer in the new book interview with Don Marco Pozza, chaplain of the prison of Padua, published by Rizzoli and the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Vatican communiqué on McCarrick case after the publication of Viganò's dossier. The Pope has ordered an inquiry into the cardinal abuser and will follow the path of truth, wherever it may lead,

With the opening day of the third Synod of Bishops under Pope Francis, and despite the seemingly anodyne subject - “Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment” - it’s potentially the most significant summit so far on this pope’s watch.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the bishops are gathering in Rome in a moment in which the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals, and the eyes of the Catholic world will be on how they choose to engage it.