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Nigeria is still imposing restrictions on religious freedom, U.S. agency says

An olive tree smolders after burned in a Palestinian village near the West Bank town of Sinjil, Friday, July 11, 2025. (Credit: Maya Alleruzzo/AP.)

Pope Leo speaks to President of Palestine, urges protection of civilians in Gaza

In a telephone conversation with President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine on Monday, Pope Leo XIV repeated his appeal for international humanitarian law to be fully respected. According to the Vatican, the conversation between the two leaders spoke about recent developments in the conflict in the Gaza Strip […]

Jul 21
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A woman walks past Nigerian soldiers in Gwoza, Nigeria, on April 8, 2015. (Credit: Lekan Oyekanmi/AP.)

Nigeria is still imposing restrictions on religious freedom, U.S. agency says

Jul 22
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Shahbul, father of a missing girl student, cries after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed onto a school campus shortly after takeoff in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, July 21, 2025. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

Cardinal ‘deeply saddened’ by deadly military plane crash in Bangladesh

Jul 22
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a joint press conference in London, Thursday July 10, 2025. (Credit: Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP.)

British bishop calls on UK government to support asylum seekers

Jul 22
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on July 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit, call to Buzz Aldrin

Jul 21
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Victims of Peru group mark victory, but lament slow pace of justice

Jul 21
Elise Ann Allen

Security guards stand watch as Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, center, talks with the Mexico’s Charge d’Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Credit: Odelyn Joseph/AP.)

Missionaries struggle to maintain hope amid mass killings in Haiti

Jul 21
Eduardo Campos Lima

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a joint press conference in London, Thursday July 10, 2025. (Credit: Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP.)

British bishop calls on UK government to support asylum seekers

Jul 22
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on July 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit, call to Buzz Aldrin

Jul 21
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Victims of Peru group mark victory, but lament slow pace of justice

Jul 21
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Security guards stand watch as Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, center, talks with the Mexico’s Charge d’Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Credit: Odelyn Joseph/AP.)

Missionaries struggle to maintain hope amid mass killings in Haiti

Jul 21
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Missionaries struggle to maintain hope amid mass killings in Haiti

Jul 21
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Germany approved guidelines for promoting ‘Fiducia supplicans blessings’ during Sede Vacante

Jul 21
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On Sunday, Pope Leo calls for an end to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

Jul 20
Charles Collins

Netanyahu call to Pope shows Israel has to acknowledge Church’s influence

Jul 20
Charles Collins

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The heart seeks God and wants peace

Jul 20
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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, speaks at the Serviam Servant Leadership Conference in the Philippines, July 12, 2025. (Credit: Serviam Catholic Community Foundation Incorporated.)

Filipino cardinals Tagle, David criticize discrimination against migrants

Jul 19
Joseph San Mateo

Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets President Biya in 2014. (Credit: U.S. State Department.)

Canon lawyer urges Cameroon bishops to oppose President Biya running again

Jul 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Patriarch Theophilos III of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem visit Gaza after Thursday’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family, July 18, 2025. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Pope Leo XIV calls Cardinal Pizzaballa about attack on Gaza church

Jul 18
Charles Collins

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians are seen amid war-damaged infrastructure in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Patriarchs of Jerusalem jointly condemn strike on Catholic church in Gaza

Jul 18
Charles Collins

Nigeria's former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died on July 13, is seen in his hometown of Daura, in northern Nigeria, on Feb. 23, 2019. (Credit: Ben Curtis/AP.)

Nigerian Christians reflect on former President Buhari after his death

Jul 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV poses with pilgrims on an ecumenical Orthodox-Catholic pilgrimage led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin (l) and Metropolitan Elpidophoros (r) in Castel Gandolfo in Italy on July 17, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for ‘path to unity’ in meeting Orthodox and Catholic pilgrims from the U.S.

Jul 17
Charles Collins

Father Gabriel Romanelli, Latin parish priest of Gaza Strip, left, prays during the midnight Christmas Eve mass at Deir Al Latin Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, Dec. 24, 2021. (Credit: Adel Hana/AP.)

Catholic church in Gaza hit by Israeli forces, two killed, priest among the injured

Jul 17
Charles Collins

Catholic priest says 92-years-old president is ‘mocking’ Cameroon by seeking reelection

Jul 17
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo says wars and conflicts do not stop the ability to meet

Jul 16
Charles Collins

Rising series of attacks on Christians occurs in central India

Jul 16
Nirmala Carvalho

Three seminarians abducted in Nigeria, guard killed

Jul 16
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, speaks at the Serviam Servant Leadership Conference in the Philippines, July 12, 2025. (Credit: Serviam Catholic Community Foundation Incorporated.)

Filipino cardinals Tagle, David criticize discrimination against migrants

Jul 19
Joseph San Mateo

Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets President Biya in 2014. (Credit: U.S. State Department.)

Canon lawyer urges Cameroon bishops to oppose President Biya running again

Jul 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Patriarch Theophilos III of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem visit Gaza after Thursday’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family, July 18, 2025. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Pope Leo XIV calls Cardinal Pizzaballa about attack on Gaza church

Jul 18
Charles Collins

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians are seen amid war-damaged infrastructure in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Patriarchs of Jerusalem jointly condemn strike on Catholic church in Gaza

Jul 18
Charles Collins

Nigeria's former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died on July 13, is seen in his hometown of Daura, in northern Nigeria, on Feb. 23, 2019. (Credit: Ben Curtis/AP.)

Nigerian Christians reflect on former President Buhari after his death

Jul 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV poses with pilgrims on an ecumenical Orthodox-Catholic pilgrimage led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin (l) and Metropolitan Elpidophoros (r) in Castel Gandolfo in Italy on July 17, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for ‘path to unity’ in meeting Orthodox and Catholic pilgrims from the U.S.

Jul 17
Charles Collins

Catholic church in Gaza hit by Israeli forces, two killed, priest among the injured

Jul 17
Charles Collins

Catholic priest says 92-years-old president is ‘mocking’ Cameroon by seeking reelection

Jul 17
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Pope Leo says wars and conflicts do not stop the ability to meet

Jul 16
Charles Collins

Rising series of attacks on Christians occurs in central India

Jul 16
Nirmala Carvalho

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Netanyahu call to Pope shows Israel has to acknowledge Church’s influence

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A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis reading in Italian “Farewell Francis, thank you His Holiness, today all the people cry for you” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. According to a report released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by the Pew Research Center, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.)

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Mar 26
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