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Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. Photo by Andrew Medichini /AP Article content Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater…

By Mandy Taheri is a Newsweek reporter based in Brooklyn. She joined Newsweek as a reporter in 2024. You can get in touch with Mandy via email: m.taheri@newsweek.com. Languages: English, French Mandy Taheri and Hollie Silverman is the Deputy Weekend Editor at Newsweek based out of South Carolina. Her focus…

(RNS) — Meeting near the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Catholic environmentalists in Africa marked the 10th anniversary this week (July 23-25) of the publication of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ encyclical on care of the environment, with a conference that asked how Africa has responded to the pontiff’s call for action.…

AFP 17 Jul, 2025 09:33 PM 4 mins to read White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that US President Donald Trump had called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured) after having 'not a positive reaction' to news of the strike on the church. Photo / AFP White House Press…

Image of the damaged Holy Family Catholic church in Gaza Holy Family Church The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said the IDF claimed that the strike was ‘by mistake’ but ‘we are not sure about this, they hit the church directly’. LAST UPDATE | 17 Jul THREE PEOPLE HAVE been killed…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church  in the Gaza Strip  on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials. The late Pope Francis, who died in April, had  regularly spoken…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials. The late Pope Francis, who died in April, had regularly spoken…

Three people were killed and at least nine injured, including a parish priest who was a close friend of the late Pope Francis, in an Israeli attack on the only Catholic church in Gaza, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said Thursday. The Holy Family Church in Gaza City “was struck…

By: Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press Posted: 6:33 AM CDT Thursday, Jul. 3, 2025 Print Email Read Later ROME (AP) — Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis' stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete reconstruction of the evidence that informed his 2021 decision to crack down…