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Kyiv holds a funeral for 2 young sisters killed by a Russian missile strike

A man kneels next to the coffins of sisters Liubava and Vira Yakovleva, killed by a Russian rocket strike during their funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 19, 2026. (Credit: Evygeniy Maloletka/AP.)

Kyiv holds a funeral for 2 young sisters killed by a Russian missile strike

May 20
Hanna Arhirova,
Vasilisa Stepanenko

Professional mourners grieve alongside family members and friends of the deceased during a funeral on the outskirts of Kisumu, Kenya, Friday, March 13, 2026. (Credit: Asa Wallin/AP.)

Kenya’s professional mourners help grieving families and keep tradition alive

May 20
Åsa Wallin

This image released by CBS shows host Stephen Colbert on the set of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in New York on May 6, 2026. (Credit: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via AP.)

Many Catholics mourning the loss of late-night host Stephen Colbert

May 20
Mark Kennedy

Catholic bishops of Pakistan meet with Pope Leo XIV on May 15, 2026 in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pakistan bishop tells Crux Now meeting with Pope Leo was ‘fruitful’

May 20
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Democratic advocate Jimmy Lai leaves Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal on Feb. 1, 2021. (Credit: Vincent Yu/AP.)

Trump says Xi is considering a detained pastor’s case, but freeing Catholic activist Jimmy Lai is ‘tough’

May 16
Kanis Leung,
Didi Tang

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, then owner of the Hong Kong and Taiwan newspaper Apple Daily, attends the Seminar on Tenth Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover organized by Democratic Party in Hong Kong, June 9, 2007. (Credit: Kin Cheung/AP.)

What to know about Catholic Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong journey from media mogul and activist to convict

Feb 9
Kanis Leung,
Associated Press

People wait to enter the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts ahead of the verdict for Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai’s national security trial, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Credit: Chan Long Hei/AP.)

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Catholic, convicted in landmark national security trial

Dec 15, 2025
Kanis Leung,
Associated Press

Police officers stand guard outside West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts, where activist publisher Jimmy Lai’s trial is scheduled to open, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by Beijing to crush dissidents. (Vernon Yuen/AP.)

National security trial opens in Hong Kong for prominent Catholic activist publisher Jimmy Lai

Dec 18, 2023
Kanis Leung

Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing as he recites the Regina Coeli noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (Credit{ Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff’s AI encyclical on May 25

May 18
Nicole Winfield

Pedro Ballester, seen here with Pope Francis, died in 2018. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

‘More incisive than the pope’: Bishop dreaded the grilling he got during hospital visits to a potential young saint

May 18
Fionn Shiner

From left, Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner from Dublin's Trinity College and Valentina Longo of Rome's National Central Library look at a manuscript containing a rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn, the first poem ever to be written down in Old English, at Rome's National Library, Thursday, May 8, 2026. (Credit: Andrea Rosa/AP.)

Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval Catholic book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

May 18
Andrea Rosa

Dorothea and Billy Ohlandt, from North Carolina, arrive at Rededicate 250, a mostly conservative Christian prayer gathering in honor of the United States' 250th anniversary, on the National Mall, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP.)

Thousands flocked to the National Mall in Washington for an America-themed prayer rally

May 18
Tiffany Stanley