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Pope, King meet for private audience and historic joint prayer

Pope, King meet for private audience and historic joint prayer

Oct 23
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on October 22, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says the Resurrection of Jesus provides a way against sadness

Oct 22
Charles Collins

Catholics protest in front of De Mazenod Church and St. Eugene’s School called on the authorities of the Dhaka North City Corporation to immediately stop the construction of the garbage disposal facility on October 21, 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Citizens hold human chain against construction of garbage facility near Church in Bangladesh

Oct 22
Stephan Uttom Rozario

A Sunday prayer service at Ishwar Dham, a Catholic-run prayer center in Uttar Pradesh. (Credit: Father Vineet Vincent Pereira/courtesy to Crux.)

Christian pastor arrested in India’s largest state

Oct 22
Nirmala Carvalho

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A sign that reads in Spanish: "Welcome to Mururata, cradle of Afro-Bolivian culture" stands in Mururata, Bolivia, on Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Afro-descendants in Bolivia fight invisibility with dance and memory

Sep 22
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

Children dressed in feather costumes attend a Mass celebrating Saint Francisco Solano at his namesake chapel in Emboscada, Paraguay, Thursday, July 24, 2025. Catholic parishioners in Paraguay don bird-like costumes and parade the streets to honor the 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (Credit: Jorge Saenz/AP.)

Despite rainy weather, Catholics in a Paraguayan town dress as birds to honor their patron saint

Jul 25
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

From left, nuns Alejandra Jaime, 39, Maria Ines Maldonado, 76, Maria Auxiliadora Estrada, 59, and Patricia Marin, 28, store fritters with Christmas figures in clear plastic bags for sale at the Convent of the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Dec 18, 2023
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
María Teresa Hernández

Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Mar 9, 2023
María Teresa Hernández

In Mexico, Day of the Dead is actually a celebration of life

Oct 30, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Oldest public library in the Americas has Catholic origins

Oct 9, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Mexico nuns’ culinary innovations live on in storied cuisine

Oct 1, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab

Aug 29, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Explaining the tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

Aug 15, 2022
Gabriela Selser,
María Teresa Hernández

Pope Leo XIV with Andrzej Michalski and Proton at the Vatican on Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Oct 16
Crux Staff

Britain's Queen Camilla and King Charles III at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, on Sep. 17, 2025. (Credit: Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP.)

King Charles III’s visit to Vatican marks a historic step in path of unity between two churches

Oct 17
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope, King meet for private audience and historic joint prayer

Oct 23
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on October 22, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says the Resurrection of Jesus provides a way against sadness

Oct 22
Charles Collins