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UNESCO adds West Bank site and Lebanese castles to World Heritage List despite Israeli objections

A Palestinian visitor takes a photo at the Roman historical site in the West Bank town of Sebastia on Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Nasser Nasser/AP.)

UNESCO adds West Bank site and Lebanese castles to World Heritage List despite Israeli objections

Jul 24
Kim Tong-hyung,
Associated Press

Why is another assisted suicide bill going through the UK parliament?

Jul 24
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Estonia Monastery Bishop Damaskinos, centre left, prays during the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of the newly founded Kirikla Orthodox Monastery in Pihali village, Estonia, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: Sergei Grits/AP.)

Orthodox monks are the first to live and pray at a monastery in Estonia for 80 years

Jul 24
Kostya Manenkov

People load pallets containing food and hygiene kits for a humanitarian assistance flight to Cuba organized by the Trump administration as the U.S. continues to put pressure on the island's government, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Miami. (Credit: Lynne Sladky/AP.)

Caritas starts distributing US humanitarian aid in 2 towns near Havana

Jul 24
Andrea Rodriguez

In Rupnik case, the cost of secrecy is visible

Jul 23
Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican denies rumors of Rupnik acquittal

Jul 22
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Estonia Monastery Bishop Damaskinos, centre left, prays during the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of the newly founded Kirikla Orthodox Monastery in Pihali village, Estonia, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: Sergei Grits/AP.)

Orthodox monks are the first to live and pray at a monastery in Estonia for 80 years

Jul 24
Kostya Manenkov

The Ephesus House, a replica of the House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Turkey, now stands at Alfonso town, Cavite province, Philippines on July 16, 2026. (Credit: Aaron Favila/AP.)

Replica of the Virgin Mary’s House draws Catholic devotees in the Philippines

Jul 24
Celine S. Rosario,
María Teresa Hernández, Associated Press

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Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.)

Cardinal Sako, head of Chaldean Church in Iraq, retires as war engulfs the region

Mar 11
Nicole Winfield,
Abby Sewell

People attend the lighting of a Christmas tree at the Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church, months after the church was the site of a deadly suicide bombing, in the Dweila neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.(Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Syrian church marks Christmas and reaffirms faith months after deadly attack

Dec 25, 2025
Abby Sewell,
Associated Press

A billboard displays an image of Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his upcoming visit to Lebanon, near the grain silos at Beirut's port that were heavily damaged in the massive 2020 explosion as a graffiti in Arabic reading "Victims of the Beirut port explosion" is seen in the foreground, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit rekindles hope in war- and crisis-battered Lebanon

Nov 25, 2025
Kareem Chehayeb,
Abby Sewell, Associated Press