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Spanish woman to undergo euthanasia after fierce legal battle with her father

Mar 26
Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he arrives in St. Peter's Square for the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo calls for French bishops to ‘generously include’ those attached to Traditional Latin Mass

Mar 25
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he leaves at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV taps an Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert

Mar 25
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

Mar 26
Tiffany Stanley

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Federal judge temporarily blocks the Pentagon from branding AI firm Anthropic a supply chain risk

Pages from the Anthropic website are displayed in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. (Credit: Patrick Sison/AP.)

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Pentagon from branding AI firm Anthropic a supply chain risk

Mar 27
Matt O'Brien,
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV holds Mass during the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St. Peter’s Square attended by heads of state, royalty and ordinary faithful, May 18, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope’s visit to Monaco signals both a message, and a reminder

Mar 27
Elise Ann Allen

Pro-life protesters stand outside the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Spain, March 18, 2021. Banner in Spanish reads: ‘Government of Death’. (Credit: Paul White/AP.)

‘Barbaric’ – Spain’s bishops condemn the euthanasia of Noelia Castillo

Mar 26
Fionn Shiner

Israeli soldiers atop an APC in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.)

Lebanese Christians fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south

Mar 26
Kareem Chehayeb,
Julia Frankel

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Pages from the Anthropic website are displayed in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. (Credit: Patrick Sison/AP.)

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Pentagon from branding AI firm Anthropic a supply chain risk

Mar 27
Matt O'Brien,
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he leaves at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV taps an Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert

Mar 25
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Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II, the longtime head of the Georgian Orthodox Church at the welcoming ceremony for Pope Francis in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sep. 30, 2016. (Credit: Ivan Sekretarev/AP.)

Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II, hailed as an ‘epochal figure,’ dies at 93

Mar 18
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Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 6, 2025. (Credit: Eraldo Peres/AP.)

Cuba will release 51 people from prison in an unexpected move

Mar 13
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Cardinal Konrad Krajewski walks after being elected in a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, June 28, 2018. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope appoints trusted fellow Augustinian to run Vatican’s charity office

Mar 13
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Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (Credit: Corey Williams/AP.)

A grim list: Some notable attacks on houses of worship around the world in recent years

Mar 13
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A man walks past Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (Credit: Gene J. Puskar/AP.)

Head priest of Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh accused of stealing baseball cards from Walmart

Mar 12
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The head of Vatican Security, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, center, follows Pope Leo XIV as he visits the parish complex of Santa Maria della Presentazione on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope accepts resignation of US bishop who was arrested for alleged financial crimes

Mar 10
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The Cologne Cathedral is seen in Cologne, Germany, July 6, 2004. (Credit: Hermann J. Knippertz/AP.)

Cologne Cathedral, one of Germany’s best-known landmarks, to charge tourists for admission

Mar 6
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