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In Spain, Pope Leo faces Europe’s tensions over faith, migration and life issues
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV lands in Spain this weekend for his first major European trip, entering a country where Catholic memory remains powerful but church practice has declined, where migration and life issue…
As Europe’s populist right rises, so do clashes with Catholic bishops
Donald Trump’s public attacks on the pope have been well-documented. The head of an administration full of prominent Catholics engaging in personal insults against the leader of the Catholic Church. In Europe, this tren…
The status quo at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque is deteriorating
(RNS) — The long-standing practice has been to preserve the site for Muslim worship and allow visitors of other faiths.
Spain’s reckoning with sexual abuse within the Catholic Church entered a new phase this year with the launch of a reparations program that involve accused cler…
The Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, on Wednesday removed a well-known priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made …
A federal court in Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced four gunmen to death in the killing of at least 50 people during a 2022 attack on a church in a southwestern …
Inspired by the Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si’, Catholic young people in Bangladesh have been working on an awareness campaign ahead of World Environme…
(RNS) — One of the misunderstandings of modern society is the idea that people of different faiths must eventually dilute their differences in order to live to…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier who disembarked from a bus near a protest. Police strugg…
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The shamans gathered by the sea on Herradura Beach in the Chorrillos district in Lima, Peru's capital, holding up posters of the two candidat…
TORONTO (AP) — Carney said antisemitism plagues Europe, Australia and the United States. But he said the crisis of antisemitism in Canada is "specific, severe …
PARIS (AP) — For archaeologists, the cathedral dig is a rare treat. In France, like elsewhere, they work only where building work is about to begin — a bit lik…
(RNS) — Hardwick was known for his disability advocacy and dynamic preaching.
PARIS (AP) — The Rule of St. Augustine, an ancient guide for religious life, highlights the value of good habits.
