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Pope offers boost to pastors of Turkey’s small Catholic flock

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

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Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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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

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Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Pope offers boost to pastors of Turkey’s small Catholic flock

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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

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

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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

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