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King Charles III calls for kindness and unity in Christmas message amid global conflicts

Brazil

Father Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

Dec 17
Mauricio Savarese,
Associated Press

Police are seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2025. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Catholics denounces restrictions on spiritual assistance in Brazilian prisons

Dec 15
Eduardo Campos Lima

Homoxexual Catholics go on pilgrimage to Aparecida, Brazil in 2024. (Credit: Network of LGBT+ Catholic Groups.)

Brazil now has a bishop heading its LGBT+ ministry

Nov 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives at the Pontifical Lateran University on the occasion of the opening of the academic year, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’

Nov 18
Anton L. Delgado,
Associated Press

This photo shows Belem, Brazil, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, ahead of hosing the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit. (Credit: Eraldo Peres/AP.)

Church sees strength of Laudato Si’ in mobilization for COP30 in Brazil

Nov 10
Eduardo Campos Lima

(Credit: Pixabay.)

Number of Brazilians in informal unions exceeds married couples

Nov 6
Eduardo Campos Lima

Residents surround the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Credit: Silvia Izquierdo/AP.)

After deadliest police killings in Brazil, Church leaders affirm sacredness of human life

Oct 30
Eduardo Campos Lima

Fuel reservoirs sit at a distribution center for state-run oil company Petrobras, in Brasilia, Brazil, May 15, 2024. (Credit: Eraldo Peres/AP.)

Church objects licensing of oil exploration project in Amazon River of Brazil

Oct 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

Oct 16
Eduardo Campos Lima

Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians

Oct 10
Eduardo Campos Lima

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King Charles III calls for kindness and unity in Christmas message amid global conflicts

Dec 25
Danica Kirka,
Associated Press

3 Palestinians arrested on suspicion of torching a Christmas tree at a Catholic church in West Bank

Dec 25
Melanie Lidman,
Associated Press

Pope offers Christmas blessing urging responsibility for violence, injustice

Dec 25
Elise Ann Allen

On Christmas, pope makes appeal for Gaza and displaced people

Dec 25
Elise Ann Allen