AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoPope Leo XIV in France: Church bells rang for seven minutes as Pope Leo XIV arrived in Paris for his first official visit in 18 years, meeting President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace and then speaking at UNESCO as he warned that AI and “a paradise of machines” must stay “at the service of the human person,” not become tools of domination. Youth vigil at Stade de France: Tens of thousands of young Catholics packed the Stade de France in Saint-Denis for a rockstar-style welcome and an evening prayer vigil featuring performances by “the Saints of France,” with Pope Leo urging holiness, peace, and a “living relationship with Jesus.” Human life and French secularism: In his opening remarks, the pope pressed France to protect the right to life and criticized trends like assisted dying, abortion, and surrogacy, while also arguing that “authentic secularity” should not exclude religion from public life. Réunion health update: A genomic study traced Réunion Island’s massive chikungunya outbreak (54,000+ cases, 43 deaths) to a likely single introduction, using thousands of viral genomes to map how it spread and later receded.
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