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Christian villagers in India uneasy after church vandalized

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A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station struck on Monday in Tehran, Iran, on March 3, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

US Cardinal Cupich questions legitimacy of war against Iran

Mar 5
Crux Staff

People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

Leading Vatican official says war in the Middle East could cause world ‘being set ablaze’

Mar 4
Crux Staff

White House border czar Tom Homan holds a news conference at the Bishop Whipple Federal building on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026 in Minneapolis. (Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP.)

Border czar Homan offers to ‘explain’ Trump policy to Pope Leo XIV

Feb 27
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV receives the letters of credential of Brian F. Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See during an audience Sept. 13, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

US Ambassador sees potential for ‘Catholic Moment’ with Leo

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

Brian Burch speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination for to be Ambassador to The Holy See, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP.)

US immigration law ‘not rooted in hate or xenophobia,’ ambassador says

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee poses for a photo during an interview in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US says ambassador’s comments on Israel and the Middle East were taken out of context

Feb 23
Melanie Lidman,
Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Childhood photos of a woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, are displayed along with a picture of her father, a WWII Air Force veteran, at left, and additional family photos, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. (Credit: David Goldman/AP.)

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran and became Christian. The Trump administration wants to deport her

Feb 22
Claire Galofaro,
Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US ambassador causes uproar by claiming Israel has a right to much of the Middle East

Feb 22
Sam Mednick,
Samy Magdy, Associated Press

The attacked village of Woro, Nigeria, on Feb. 5, 2026. (Credit: Musa Salim/AP.)

US will send troops to Nigeria to train the military to fight extremism

Feb 12
Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Conservative Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission ousted in dispute over antisemitism

Feb 12
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

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