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Pope Leo XIV meets with author Gareth Gore in the Vatican on March 16, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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A view of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

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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.)

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A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (Credit: John Bazemore/AP.)

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