Vaticano: Dicastério das Causas dos Santos destaca valor ecuménico e antropológico dos novos mártires

In brief

Cardinal Semeraro, head of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, presented an international congress on contemporary religious persecution on September 10, 2026. He noted the ecumenical and anthropological importance of modern martyrs.

Semeraro expressed his intention to create a catalog of all individuals who died for confessing Christ and witnessing to the Gospel.