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At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

Mar 26
Tiffany Stanley

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he leaves at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV taps an Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert

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Father Brian Strassburger smiles as Alcala Bouilly sings into the microphone during Mass at Casa del Migrante on Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Reynosa, Mexico. (Credit: Michael Gonzalez/AP.)

As border dynamics change, priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees

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A soldier inspects an area attacked in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on March 7, 2026. (Credit: Jossy Ola/AP.)

US sends drones to Nigeria to join troops sent for intelligence and training

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Boys Town students hold portraits of Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan outside St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Neb., Feb. 27, 2012. (Credit: Nati Harnik/AP.)

Pope Leo moves Father Flanagan of Boys Town fame closer to possible sainthood

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Peter Smith,
Nicole Winfield

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
Omar Sanadiki

Conductor Harry Christopher, center, with tenor Matthew McKinney, left, soprano Elizabeth Watts, second from left, and The Sixteen present Angels Unawares byJames MacMillan in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

A rare look inside the Sistine Chapel for a private concert about angel encounters

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David Biller

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
Peter Smith

The Supreme Court is photographed, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Rahmat Gul/AP.)

Supreme Court revives suit from evangelical Christian challenging restrictions on demonstrations

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Bishop Jennifer Nagel, of the Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, March 20, 2026, after a federal judge ruled that clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota. (Credit: Steve Karnowski/AP.)

Federal judge grants injunction allowing clergy visits at Minneapolis ICE holding facility

Mar 21
Steve Karnowski

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