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Pope Leo XIV at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on March 11, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Footnotes and tea leaves: Pope Leo and Amoris Laetitia

Mar 21
Charles Collins

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP.)

Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the US goes to war with Iran

Mar 21
Tiffany Stanley

Pope calls for peace, says Christians ‘cannot remain silent’ before war

Mar 22
Elise Ann Allen

The Supreme Court is photographed, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Rahmat Gul/AP.)

Supreme Court revives suit from evangelical Christian challenging restrictions on demonstrations

Mar 21
Lindsay Whitehurst

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Syrian authorities’ new limits on alcohol sales in Damascus spark backlash

A man holds a sign reading in Arabic "No to dividing Damascus neighborhoods along sectarian lines" in a demonstration against new restrictions limiting alcohol sales mainly to Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, Syria, on March 22, 2026. (Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Syrian authorities’ new limits on alcohol sales in Damascus spark backlash

Mar 23
Omar Sanadiki

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz holds a press conference at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Church celebrates educational reform in Bolivia after years of being silenced

Mar 23
Eduardo Campos Lima

Conductor Harry Christopher, center, with tenor Matthew McKinney, left, soprano Elizabeth Watts, second from left, and The Sixteen present Angels Unawares byJames MacMillan in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

A rare look inside the Sistine Chapel for a private concert about angel encounters

Mar 23
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Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Patriarch Filaret, who fought for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church, dies at 97

Mar 22
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