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Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri speaks during an interview at the Zion Church in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (Credit: Ng Han Guan/AP.)

Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release; Catholic still in prison

Jul 6
Didi Tang,
Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

Syrian security inspects the site after an explosive device was detonated in a cafe near the main courthouse complex, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, July 2, 2026 (Credit: Ghaith Alsayed/AP.)

Explosive device goes off in cafe in Syria’s capital, killing at least 9 people

Jul 3
Ghaith Alsayed,
Associated Press

Pope appoints woman to head development dicastery

Jun 30
Crux Now Staff,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV meets with cardinals in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on June 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals

Jun 26
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV receives the baseball from the final out of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series from former Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski. (Credit: Pierzynski on X.)

Pope Leo XIV receives World Series baseball from former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski

Jun 26
Jay Cohen,
Associated Press

A man sits with a cat outside St. Georges Orthodox Church in the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Two Christian communities navigate life in southern Lebanon, in photos

Jun 17
Hassan Ammar,
Associated Press

Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Credit: Eric Gay/AP.)

In far West Texas, the threat of land seizures for a border wall has families on edge

Jun 16
Uriel J. Garcia/ The Texas Tribune,
Associated Press

A burning cross near a tree in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. (Credit: AP.)

A burning cross in a Chicago park shocks residents

Jun 11
Hallie Golden,
Associated Press

A newly married couple walks down the aisle at their wedding amid an Ebola outbreak in Ituri Province in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Celebrating a Catholic wedding amid the Ebola outbreak: No kisses, but love lives here

Jun 9
Justin Kabumba,
Associated Press

Mother of Noelia Castillo files criminal complaints about alleged rapes of her daughter

Jul 17
Fionn Shiner

Bishops in Panama concerned over canal-linked dam project

Jul 17
Eduardo Campos Lima

France approves assisted suicide and euthanasia

Jul 16
Fionn Shiner

Premium article: Cardinal Gracias has high hopes for Church in Asia ahead of FABC Plenary

Jul 16
Nirmala Carvalho

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Mother of Noelia Castillo files criminal complaints about alleged rapes of her daughter

Amnesty International UK regrets report calling British bishops’ conference “anti-rights” group

Jul 15
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France approves assisted suicide and euthanasia

Jul 16
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Premium article: Cardinal Gracias has high hopes for Church in Asia ahead of FABC Plenary

Jul 16
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Filipino bishops fight stigma of mental illness

Jul 16
Paterno R. Esmaquel II