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Cardinal Pizzaballa says ongoing Middle East conflict stopping regular celebration of Holy Week in Jerusalem

Krishan Francis | Crux

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

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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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The Old City of Jerusalem in the Holy Land. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Cardinal Pizzaballa says ongoing Middle East conflict stopping regular celebration of Holy Week in Jerusalem

Mar 23
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Bangladesh Bishops decline government stipend for Catholic clerics

Mar 23
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New laws in two Indian states threaten religious liberty

Mar 23
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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
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