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Kosovo’s Catholics and Muslims mark Ash Wednesday and Ramadan in one week

PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo’s religious diversity came to light this week as the Balkan nation’s Christian and Muslim communities both embarked on a traditional period of fasting and spiritual...

Pope laments ‘ashes of international law’ left by today’s conflicts in Ash Wednesday liturgy

ROME – Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wa...

Emerging artists making rap, Afrobeats and R&B music push Christian genre boundaries

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of the...

From southern India to Canada’s far north: New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics

As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soo...

Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church leads to arrests but no charges for journalist Don Lemon

MINNEAPOLIS – A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arr...

Priest by day, DJ by night: Padre Guilherme’s rave in Beirut draws cheers and controversy

BEIRUT – Ravers danced and swayed to the loud bass at a popular nightclub in the heart of the city of Beirut. It was another sold-out Saturday in the party capital of the Middle East. What w...

Pope to visit Spain this year, with stops in Madrid, Barcelona and Canary Islands, cardinal says

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV is planning to travel to Spain this year, with stops in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands to fulfill Pope Francis’ wish of visiting a key migration entry p...

The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion

VATICAN CITY – In his most substantial critique of U.S., Russian and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Pope Leo XIV on Friday denounced how nations were using force to assert...

U.S. faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead

For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fraught with challenges and setbacks. For many in these religious circles, the coming ye...

Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza; those who ...

Faith-based entertainment sees a revival in Hollywood. Defining what it is can be a challenge

LOS ANGELES – At the movies this fall, Josh O’Connor plays a hot priest with a complicated past, Keanu Reeves is an angel who lost his wings, and Elizabeth Olsen has a romantic dilemma in th...

Faith leaders embrace sound baths to connect with spiritual seekers

LOS ANGELES – With eyes closed and a small mallet in hand, the Rev. Kyohei Mikawa gently struck the bronze Himalayan singing bowl resting in his palm and bathed the Buddhist sanctuary in a r...