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Nigeria’s president declares emergency and beefs up forces following abductions

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 on the papal plane, Nov. 27, 2025. (Credit: Elise Allen/Crux.)

History’s first American pope wishes ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ on way to Turkey

Nov 27
Elise Ann Allen

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

Nigeria’s president declares emergency and beefs up forces following abductions

Nov 27
Grace Ekpu,
Associated Press

Pope lands in Turkey with call to build bridges in polarized, conflicted world

Nov 27
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Pope Leo XIV at Esenboga International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, on Nov. 11, 2025. (Credit: Khalil Hamra/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Turkey for his first papal trip abroad

Nov 27
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV on the papal plane, Nov. 27, 2025. (Credit: Elise Allen/Crux.)

History’s first American pope wishes ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ on way to Turkey

Nov 27
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