Irish Missionary Kidnapped, Atomic Bombing Remembrances, India Nuns on Bail, Pope Leo Visits Sick Youth

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 5, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation's long-running armed gang violence and instability.
  
  
• Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops.
  
  
• The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities' streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.
  
  
• Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth accused of human trafficking and forced conversion in central India are out on bail.
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.