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Gaza Marks the Start of Eid With Outdoor Prayers in the Rubble and Food Growing Ever Scarcer

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays ...

Gaza Marks the Start of Eid With Outdoor Prayers in the Rubble and Food Growing Ever Scarcer

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays ...

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Supreme Court Rules Catholic Charity Exempt From State Unemployment Taxes

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decided Thursday that a Catholic charity doesn’t have to pay Wisconsin unemployment taxes, one of a set...

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2 More Attacks on Jews Heighten Concerns About Security in and Around US Synagogues

BOULDER, Colorado — For the leaders of U.S. Jewish institutions, the recent attacks in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., are stark re...

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Pope Leo XIV stands for a family photo with Vice President JD Vance, second from left, his wife Usha Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second from right, and his wife Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio, on the occasion of their meeting at the Vatican, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

JD Vance Gives Pope Leo XIV an Invitation From Trump to Visit US

ROME — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Mon...

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance participates in a discussion at a Munich Security Conference event in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Vance to Attend Pope Leo Inaugural Mass, His Office Says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. delegation to attend the inaugural mass on Sunday of Pope Leo XIV, the first ...

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Italy's Jannik Sinner, left, shares a light moment with Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of their meeting at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Meets Sinner: World No. 1 Gives Tennis Fan Pope Leo XIV Racket

VATICAN CITY  — Pope Leo XIV has made peace with Jannik Sinner. The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope on Wednesday, gave him a t...

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

What the World Needs From Pope Leo

The name alone often speaks volumes. In choosing to reign as Francis, first of that name, Jorge Bergoglio signaled clearly the style of his ...

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Leo XIV’s Service to Poor Propelled Him to Papacy, Cardinals Say

ROME — Pope Leo XIV presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, pledging to align himself with “ordinar...

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Pope Leo XIV Celebrates First Mass as Pope and Calls His Election Both a Cross and a Blessing

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing ...

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Rejoicing Peruvians See Pope Leo XIV as One of Their Own After His Many Years in Peru

LIMA, Peru — Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country and...

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Mourners pray during the funeral of a Palestinian killed in what the Gaza health ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution center in Rafah, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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