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Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola’s leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Crozon, France, March 2, 2026. (Credit: Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP.)

French government engages in ‘general mobilization’ against pro-life activists

Apr 17
Fionn Shiner

An election poster of the German far right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right, is attached to a lamppost in front of a giant election poster showing a map of Germany, at the headquarters of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 29, 2025. Slogan reads: ‘Now AfD’. (Credit: Michael Sohn/AP.)

Germany’s far-right targets church funding

Apr 15
Fionn Shiner

Priests bless believers and their Easter baskets to mark Orthodox Easter, in Pyrohiv, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire

Apr 13
Derek Gatopoulos,
Vasilisa Stepanenko, Associated Press

People cry as they hold hold photos of their missed relatives as Ukrainian soldiers return from captivity during a POW exchange between Russia and Ukraine in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Orthodox Easter truce falters as Ukraine says Russia continues drone strikes

Apr 12
Derek Gatopoulos,
Associated Press

The Spanish flag flies in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Vatican drops investigation against Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse

Apr 11
Fionn Shiner

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on April 9, 2026. (Credit: Sputnik via AP.)

Russia’s Putin declares a ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Easter

Apr 10
Associated Press

Pro-government demonstrators chant slogans as they hold Iranian flags and a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

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Pastors blessing Trump and asking God for war victory was shameful, says Spanish bishop

Apr 9
Fionn Shiner

A hooded penitent of the Nuestro Padre Jesus del Huerto y San Diego brotherhood participates in a Holy Week procession in Baena, southern Spain, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Women take pride in Holy Week roles after a Spanish Catholic brotherhood’s procession excluded them

Apr 4
Manu Fernandez,
Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press

A monk tends to plants at the Monastery of St. Augustine and Seraphim of Sarov in the village of Trikorfo, about 236 kilometers (147 miles) northwest of Athens, Friday, March 20, 2026. (Credit: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP.)

Want to renew healthy eating habits? Greek monks have a spring playbook

Apr 2
Derek Gatopoulos,
Theodora Tongas, Associated Press

People gather outside a hospital where Noelia Castillo, a young Spanish woman, died after receiving euthanasia, in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Credit: Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via AP.)

Trump administration orders investigation into Noelia Castillo’s euthanasia

Apr 2
Fionn Shiner

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Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola’s leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people

Apr 19
Nicole Winfield,
Gerald Imray, Associated Press

Pope arrives in oil-rich Angola condemning ‘logic of extractivism’

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Pope Leo chastises journos spinning Africa trip as rebuke of Trump

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Pope in Angola will face contrast of boom in faith, poverty, corruption

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