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Catholic Church

Pope Leo to meet clergy abuse victims during upcoming France visit

France

Vatican excommunicates six ultraconservative bishops over ordination

Europe

Schismatic Catholic society sees six bishops excommunicated by Pope

Europe

‘All of us are migrants’, says pope on final day of Spain visit

Europe

Pope casts flowers in sea in tribute to drowned migrants during Canary Islands visit

Europe

Pope Leo marks centenary of Gaudi's death by blessing Sagrada Familia tower in Barcelona

Europe

Pope urges Spanish Church to adopt ‘culture of care’, reparations for sex abuse survivors

Europe
Spotlight

Pope in Spain: The 'rock star' effect

Europe

More than 1.2 million people attend Pope Leo's mass in Madrid

Europe

Pope Leo visits Spain to highlight migration, meet victims of sexual abuse by clergy

Europe

Pope names first lay woman as head of a Vatican department

Europe

Pope Leo XIV calls for 'robust' regulation of AI in sweeping manifesto

Europe

Pope Leo to visit France in September, Vatican says

France
Truth or Fake

Photo shows Israeli soldier desecrating Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

Middle East

Trump-Pope clash rehashes old gripes, casts cloud over Rubio's Vatican visit

Americas

Sarah Mullally, first female Archbishop of Canterbury, to meet Pope Leo

Europe

Pope in Equatorial Guinea: Moral authority role risks being 'whitewashed & used to legitimise power'

Africa

Pope Leo condemns inmate conditions on tour of infamous Equatorial Guinea prison

Africa
Truth or Fake

Israel confirms one of its soldiers destroyed Jesus statue in Lebanon

Middle East

Pope Leo XIV recalls 'great suffering' at historic slave trade shrine in Angola

Africa

Pope Leo warns AI boom could fuel polarisation, violence in Cameroon address

Africa
The Debate

Leo and 'the tyrants': Does new pope's defiant message resonate?

Africa

Pope Leo blasts 'handful of tyrants' ravaging world during Cameroon visit

Africa

Pope Leo lands in Cameroon with message of peace as separatists announce 3-day truce

Africa

Pope Leo walks in St. Augustine's footsteps in Algeria visit marred by suicide bombings

Africa
Press Review

'It was me as a doctor': Trump 'repents' over AI Jesus post

Truth or Fake

Donald Trump deletes AI image of himself as Jesus after attacking Pope Leo

Americas
Spotlight

Interfaith dialogue: 'The messenger of peace in the name of Pope Leo XIV is coming to visit us'

Africa

Interfaith dialogue: 'The messenger of peace in the name of Pope Leo XIV is coming to visit us'

Africa

Pope Leo XIV begins landmark Algeria visit with call for 'forgiveness'

Africa

Leo XIV to make history with first-ever papal visit to Algeria

Analysis
Africa

Macron and Pope Leo talk war and basketball amid calls for peace in Middle East

Europe

Pope Leo condemns ‘violence of war’ in first Easter Mass amid Iran conflict

Europe

Israel restores Latin Patriarch’s access to Holy Sepulchre church after international outcry

Middle East

Israeli police bar top Catholic figure in Jerusalem from holding Palm Sunday mass at Holy Sepulchre

Middle East

Israeli police bar top Catholic figure in Jerusalem from holding Palm Sunday Mass at Holy Sepulchre

Middle East
Reporters

Opus Dei: Spain under influence of ultra-conservative Catholic movement

Europe

Pope Leo to visit Algeria, a first in papal history, on packed Africa tour

Africa

St Francis relics on public display for first time in Italy

Europe

World's tallest church: Sagrada Familia inches closer to the sky

Europe
Press Review

Where to next for AI? The farm? The Church, even?

Portugal: meet the DJ priest evangelising through electronic music

Europe

Final pilgrims cross Holy Door as Vatican claims Jubilee success

Europe

Bethlehem prepares for Christmas after two years of canceled celebrations

Middle East

Nigeria says 130 abducted schoolchildren freed after mass kidnapping

Africa

Pope Leo replaces New York's Cardinal Dolan with Illinois bishop in shake-up of US church

Americas
Focus

Vatican goes digital as influencer priests spread gospel on social media

Europe
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'Dragon Tattoo' star Noomi Rapace transforms into 'Mother' Teresa for provocative biopic

Culture

Pope Leo XIV urges unity in Lebanon visit

Middle East

Celebrating 1700 years: 'Nicene Creed the basic & most fundamental, unifying creed of Christianity'

Middle East

Pope urges unity at gathering of Muslim and Christian leaders in Beirut

Middle East

Pope Leo urges Lebanese to embrace reconciliation on visit to crisis-hit country

Middle East

Pope Leo follows papal tradition with Blue Mosque visit

Europe

Runaway nuns allowed back in Austrian convent 'until further notice'

Europe

Pope Leo calls for Christian unity at Turkish site where Nicaean Creed originated

Middle East

Pope Leo meets Turkey's Erdogan and Orthodox leaders on first overseas trip

Asia / Pacific

Pope heads to Lebanon, Turkey in debut overseas trip amid heightened Mideast tensions

Middle East

Gunmen abduct more than 300 pupils in latest Nigeria school attack

Africa

US Catholic bishops stand up to Trump's immigration crackdown

Americas

King Charles, Pope Leo pray together at Sistine Chapel in historic first

Europe

The Bright Side: Vatican to return dozens of artifacts to Canada's indigenous communities

Europe

Vatican panel urges reperations for sex abuse victims and tougher sanctions for abusers

Europe

Catholic Church too slow helping abuse victims, Vatican panel says

The Bright Side: Elderly nuns in Austria escape retirement home to return to convent

Europe

Pope Leo declares Italian teen computer whiz a saint

Europe

The Bright Side: Spanish firefighters praised for saving historic Cordoba mosque-turned-cathedral

Europe

Is the US 'complicit in the war crimes being carried out by Israel in Gaza'?

Middle East

'Sinwar killed peace': Grandson of Israeli hostages urges 'to work back towards path' to peace

Middle East

Amid desperation in war-torn Gaza, 'environment of fear, intimidation and worry in West Bank'

Middle East

Pope's 'Jubilee of Youth' ends with Rome mass

Europe

More than a million attend closing Mass of Pope Leo XIV's youth Jubilee

Europe

Gaza: 'It's an engineered starvation campaign against civilians, women and children' (Oxfam)

Middle East