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Pope expresses ‘deep concern’ after US military action in Venezuela

Jan 4
Elise Ann Allen

Men watch smoke rising from a dock after explosions were heard at La Guaira port, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Venezuelan Church reacts to US abduction of Maduro with caution

Jan 4
Eduardo Campos Lima

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks at a ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of the signing of a peace deal between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Credit: Fernando Vergara/AP.)

Colombian Catholics among those concerned after Trump threatens country’s president

Jan 5
Eduardo Campos Lima

People light candles near the sealed off Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, where a devastating fire left dead and injured during the New Year’s celebrations. (Credit: Antonio Calanni/AP.)

Survivors and others talk about fatal Swiss Alpine bar fire

Jan 5
Associated Press

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Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus remarks on Venezuela crisis both cautious and clear

Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus remarks on Venezuela crisis both cautious and clear

Jan 5
Christopher R. Altieri

People who were kidnapped after a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Catholic priest calls for ‘radical restructuring’ of Nigeria

Jan 5
Ngala Killian Chimtom

A vendor sells local newspapers with headlines referring to US President Donald Trump’s comments about Nigeria, on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Gunmen kill at least 30 villagers and abduct others during raid in northern Nigeria

Jan 5
Associated Press

Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbors say was hit during U.S. strikes to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

‘Still shaken’: Trepidation in Venezuela after US captures Maduro

Jan 5
Regina Garcia Cano,
Associated Press

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People visit the site of a U.S. airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Credit: Tunde Omolehin/AP.)

Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

Dec 27, 2025
Ope Adetayo,
Tunde Omolehin, Associated Press

Precious Njikonye, center, the mother of a student at St. Mary's Catholic School, who was abducted by gunmen and later released, sits outside her house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

‘They said they’d shoot us’: Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

Dec 11, 2025
Ope Adetayo,
Afolabi Sotunde, Associated Press

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

Nigerian parents say they are kept in the dark over abducted schoolchildren

Nov 27, 2025
Yunusa Umar,
Ope Adetayo, Associated Press

A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls, in Kebbi Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 19 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

24 schoolgirls abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria have been rescued, president says

Nov 26, 2025
Tunde Omolehin,
Ope Adetayo, Associated Press