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As Muslim groups continue to target Christians in Nigeria, some US lawmakers are calling on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to restore Nigeria’s classification as a Country of Particular Concern. cruxnow.com/church-in-afri…


Is religion growing in young people in Northern Ireland? A new survey says 18-24-year-olds are more likely to have a “very positive” attitude towards than any other age group, even those over 65 years. cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-a…


The pontiff's remarks on synodality were a distinctly Leonine riff on a keystone theme of his predecessor's pontificate, one observers thought would be buried with the Argentine Pope Francis. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/1…


Catholics and other Christians in Brazil are raising awareness and pushing back against what they say are efforts to circumvent the pro-life majority among the people and in the legislature. cruxnow.com/life/2025/10/b…


Signed in the Vatican on October 4, Dilexi te is formally known as an Apostolic begun by Pope Francis and dedicated to the broad subject of Christian duty to care for the poor. cruxnow.com/uncategorized/…


The audience came as tensions over US immigration policy and enforcement continued to rise, with reports of National Guard troops readying to deploy as soon as Wed. night to an ICE processing center near the pope's own native city, Chicago, IL. cruxnow.com/uncategorized/…


An estimated 260,000 civilians, half of them children, are besieged in the Sudanese town of El Fasher, surrounded by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) loyal to one of two principal coup-leaders who have fallen out. cruxnow.com/church-in-afri…


Church organizations have been accompanying demonstrators with the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) in the Andean country, who have mobilized to protest President Daniel Noboa's decision to stop subsidizing diesel fuel. cruxnow.com/church-in-the-…


On Tuesday the Vatican officially confirmed Pope Leo’s first papal trip to Turkey and Lebanon at the end of November and beginning of December, a trip that could have significant implications for his agenda on Gaza. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/1…


Even in his new Vatican role, Pope Leo XIV, who spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, has maintained this spirit and continues to be a missionary within his own territory and the new community that surrounds him. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/1…


Pope Leo XIV Monday met with Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, a conservative lightning rod whose participation in pre-conclave meetings earlier this year became a source of global scandal due to allegations of sexual abuse. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/1…


Santana would bring boys to his room at the boarding school and lock the door. There, he would submit them to a number of sexual practices, from masturbation to anal sex. cruxnow.com/church-in-the-…


"In case of a leakage along that pipeline, we are going to lose everything as Kenya, as Africa, as a continent," said Flavian Wanzala. cruxnow.com/church-in-afri…


"Instead of taking into account the 512 validated testimonies, contacting the victims and dealing with the financial compensations from the beginning, the bishops’ conference has been dragging its feet,” said António Grosso. cruxnow.com/church-in-euro…


Pope Leo XIV celebrated a special Mass for the Jubilee of Missions and of Migrants Sunday, urging a welcoming and unprejudiced attitude toward migrants, and indicating that what it means to be a missionary in the modern world is changing. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/1…


The plain fact of the matter is that Catholic cultures in most other parts of the world simply aren’t as obsessed with abortion as in the United States. cruxnow.com/news-analysis/…


In the Paschal Mystery, we are able to understand and realize all that the Lord Jesus prayed on our behalf. cruxnow.com/commentary/202…


The devotion to St. Michael the Archangel began with Saint Francis and has long had local importance in Italy and elsewhere. In today’s Brazil, however, it has become a mass phenomenon. cruxnow.com/church-in-the-…


The latest episode is symptomatic of the fragile peace process in South Sudan since the country gained independence from Sudan in 2011. cruxnow.com/church-in-afri…


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