US Exits UNESCO, New York Vocation Interest Boom, Rome's Youth Jubilee, Iran's Catholics, and More

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, filling in for Gina Christian, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 23, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

•  The Trump administration on July 22 said the United States would withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, a group that has partnered with the Holy See on human development and cultural heritage projects. 
  
  
• Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a statement at the general debate of the U.N. Economic and Social Council's High-Level Political Forum, saying its founding principles are as vital today as ever.
  
  
• Close to 800 young men from the Archdiocese of New York have responded to a call for interest in the priestly life, according to the archdiocese's director of vocations.
  
  
• More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive July 28 for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, and include the exposition of the relics of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis for veneration.
  
  
• Iran's Catholic community is leaning on prayer and hope after the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran shook the region, Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan told OSV News.