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Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

With address of polygamy, Vatican flunks early test of synodality

Nov 26
Charles Collins

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican answers African bishops concerned about polygamy with document praising monogamous marriage

Nov 25
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo to make international debut with tightrope act

Nov 26
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV talks Thanksgiving, Türkiye and Lebanon, Ukraine, Violence against Women

Nov 26
Crux Staff

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

Nov 27
Crux Staff

Vatican budget shortfall nearly halved in 2024

Nov 27
Crux Staff

People who were kidnapped in a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kabuna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian rights group links surge in violence to Vatican’s ‘inconsistent’ narrative

Nov 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse maintains his innocence

Nov 27
Fionn Shiner

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Police and government officials walk past St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School where gunmen on Friday abducted children and staff in Papiri community, Nigeria, on Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Yunusa Umar/AP.)

Nigerian parents say they are kept in the dark over abducted schoolchildren

Nov 27
Yunusa Umar,
Ope Adetayo, Associated Press

People visit Herrnhuter Sterne GmbH manufacturing, a Christmas stars manufacturing company in Herrnhut, Germany, Nov. 10, 2025. (Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP.)

Moravian stars light up Germany’s Christmas season

Nov 27
Kirsten Grieshaber,
Associated Press

A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls, in Kebbi Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 19 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

24 schoolgirls abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria have been rescued, president says

Nov 26
Tunde Omolehin,
Ope Adetayo, Associated Press

Our Lady of the Airways, a Catholic chapel that has ministered to airport workers and travelers since the mid-20th century, is seen at Logan International Airport in Boston on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (Credit: Giovanna Dell’Orto/AP.)

Airport chapels stay on the radar of workers and travelers even as role of faith in public shifts

Nov 26
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
Associated Press

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stand amid the destruction left by Israeli strikes north of Gaza City Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Israel says it has received another set of human remains from militants in Gaza

Nov 26
Wafaa Shurafa,
Associated Press

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican answers African bishops concerned about polygamy with document praising monogamous marriage

Nov 25
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

A billboard displays an image of Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his upcoming visit to Lebanon, near the grain silos at Beirut's port that were heavily damaged in the massive 2020 explosion as a graffiti in Arabic reading "Victims of the Beirut port explosion" is seen in the foreground, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit rekindles hope in war- and crisis-battered Lebanon

Nov 25
Kareem Chehayeb,
Abby Sewell, Associated Press

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

A timeline of abductions from schools in Nigeria

Nov 25
Associated Press

The sun sets behind the dome of the Melkite Greek Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Photos show Christian landmarks in Lebanon ahead of the pope’s visit

Nov 24
Hassan Ammar,
Associated Press