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Women mourn the death of a family member following the attack by gunmen in north-central Nigeria on April 15, 2025. (Credit: Samson Omale/AP.)

Latest attack reportedly kills nearly 200 people in Nigeria

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Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Yaron Sideman presents his credentials to Pope Francis. (Credit: Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.)

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Yasmeen Mazzawi, an Arab Christian from Nazareth, serving as a volunteer paramedic with Magen David Adom (Red Shield of David), which is the Israeli member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. (Credit: Magen David Adom.)

Israeli Arab Catholic describes working with Israel’s aid agency

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California Highway Patrol officers arrest two men after a dispersal order during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Credit: Ethan Swope/AP.)

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

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Pope Leo XIV reflects on the paralytic man being healed in the Gospel of St. John in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

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Supporters hold a sign with an image of former President Evo Morales and a message that reads in Spanish, “Without Evo, there are no elections,” during a protest demanding he be allowed to compete in the upcoming presidential election, near the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

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Entrance of Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

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