The vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference deplored the gruesome murder of four migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan who were working in slave-like conditions in Amendolara, a small town in Calabria.

Indiana and Tennessee have designated June as Nuclear Family Month—one by gubernatorial proclamation, the other following legislative votes.

In a prominent front-page article in its June 3 edition, the Vatican newspaper highlighted the revival of Qaraqosh, an Iraqi Christian city occupied by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from 2014 to 2016.

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., announced on June 3 that he had removed Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, a famed exorcist, “as an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington, and ended all affiliation between the archdiocese and the Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal located in Washington, D.C.”

Pope Leo XIV reminded pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square that June is the month dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

At the conclusion of his June 3 general audience, Pope Leo XIV encouraged Corpus Christi processions.

The court acquitted a fifth defendant.

The Lagos-based newspaper Punch reported that “one of the prosecution witnesses, a Catholic priest who survived the incident, gave a chilling account of how the assailants detonated at least three explosive devices inside the church, triggering panic and bloodshed among worshippers.”

At a press conference that lasted nearly an hour (video), the director of the Holy See Press Office discussed Pope Leo’s upcoming apostolic journey to Spain.

For a quarter century, the police investigation “has remained stalled, with frequent changes of investigating officers hindering progress,” UCA News reported. Nirmol Rozario, president of the ecumenical Bangladesh Christian Association, said that “for 25 years we have been making the same demands for a proper investigation and justice, but nothing has happened.”

Located in South Asia, Bangladesh (map), a nation of 170 million—the world’s eighth most populous—is 89% Muslim and 9% Hindu.