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Court in India tells state to make sure Christians don’t get minority benefits

Christine Fernando | Crux

A Nativity scene containing characters with cloth faces, by Belgian artist Victoria-Maria Geyer, is displayed in a white tent in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Sylvain Plazy/AP.)

A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene

Dec 2
Sylvain Plazy,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV on the plane to Rome from Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/CruxNow.com)

Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

People wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV to visit the De la Croix hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope bids farewell to Lebanon with call for end to armed conflict

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate Mass at Beirut’s waterfront. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope ends Mass with a call for peace

Dec 2
Associated Press

Flag of India. (Credit: Unsplash.)

Court in India tells state to make sure Christians don’t get minority benefits

Dec 4
Nirmala Carvalho

Catholic University Institute Of Buea in Cameroon. (Credit: CUIOB.)

Kidnapped priest released in Cameroon

Dec 4
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh are deprived in many ways and often persecuted by the majority. They are yet to get their constitutional recognition as an Indigenous people through their demands for years. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Bangladesh’s indigenous minorities deprived in social safety programs

Dec 4
Stephan Uttom Rozario

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A St. Rita High School student prays in the school chapel where the new Pope Leo XIV, Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost, was a substitute teacher. Picture taken May 8, 2025, in Chicago. (Credit: Paul Beaty/AP.)

Catholic Chicagoans celebrate as native son Pope Leo XIV becomes first American pope

May 10
Christine Fernando,
Melina Walling, Associated Press