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Pope Leo XIV at the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi, Italy, on Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

At meeting in Assisi, the shape of new Leonine pontificate emerges

Nov 21
Charles Collins

Visitors look at tombs at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in Iznik, also known by its ancient name Nicaea, northwestern Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, ahead of the visit of Pope Leo XIV to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. (Credit: Francisco Seco/AP.)

1,700 years ago, bishops and an emperor wrote a creed

Nov 20
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

Pope Francis shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary general of the Vatican’s governorship, at the Vatican, on Dec. 23, 2021. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope tweaks a law allowing a woman to head the Vatican City State, months after a nun was appointed

Nov 21
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Report: Roughly 1/3 of Catholic clergy ordained in Britain 1992-2024 come from Anglicanism

Nov 20
Christopher R. Altieri

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri leads a class on the basics of Christian beliefs at Zion Church in Beijing, Aug. 4, 2018. (Credit: Ng Han Guan/AP.)

Christian pastor’s daughter urges US lawmakers to help free her father in China

Nov 22
Didi Tang,
Associated Press

A view of the school bus of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory and abducted schoolgirls, is seen in Kebbi, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Tunde Omolehin/AP.)

Why schoolchildren are often abducted in Nigeria and who the usual kidnappers are

Nov 22
Associated Press

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

Hundreds of students at Catholic school in Nigeria seized by Islamists

Nov 22
Ngala Killian Chimtom

People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting in North Kivu, May 24, 2022. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Islamic State-backed rebels killed 89 people in multiple attacks in eastern Congo, UN says

Nov 22
Justin Kabumba,
Mark Banchereau, Associated Press

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