At 8:30 Pope Leo XIV receives in audience the speakers and participants in the conference 'The 21st century: a new age of martyrs?', promoted by the Commission for the New Martyrs – Witnesses of the Faith of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and held on 15 and 16 September at the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum. The conference brought together qualified voices — including Cardinals Fridolin Ambongo and Pierbattista Pizzaballa and the historians Andrea Riccardi and Gianni La Bella — to outline the features of contemporary Christian martyrdom, echoing the Pope's call not to forget the witnesses of the faith of our time.