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Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia greet the crowd during their visit to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (Credit: Manu Fernández/AP.)

In first visit to Ceuta, Spain’s king asks for ‘good faith’ from Morocco after migration crisis

  • Oct 14
  • Joseph Wilson, 
    Manu Fernandez
Local residents protest the Spanish government's handling of the Ceuta border crisis, two months after it occurred, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Banners read in Spanish: "Ceuta does not give up". (Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP.)

Spain’s worst border crisis frays Ceuta’s coexistence ahead of royals’ first visit

  • Oct 13
  • Suman Naishadham
A car burns following a Russian strike on a residential neighbourhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (Credit: Andrii Marienko/AP.)

Pope appeals for safe passage of Black Sea grain, saying Ukraine is ‘tormented’

  • Oct 12
  • Crux Now Staff
Rightwing leader Marine Le Pen and Far-right party National Rally president Jordan Bardella answer journalists as they arrive to visit a market in La Fleche, western France on July. 8, 2026. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

Europe goes to the polls — with the rightwing lurking

  • Oct 10
  • Fionn Shiner
Flamenco singer Fabiola Pérez, known as “La Fabi”, performs on a stage next to the Triana Bridge during a concert organized as part of the Seville Flamenco Bienal in Seville, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Pope Leo said the music has a ‘creative spirit’: Flamenco’s heart-wrenching wail captured in images

  • Oct 7
  • Emilio Morenatti

Forcing churches to delete baptismal records would infringe religious freedom, legal expert tells Crux Now

  • Oct 6
  • Fionn Shiner
MTP Kit containing one mifepristone and four misoprostol plus a blister strip of 10 extra miso. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

‘Give the money to struggling mothers’: Bishop slams Spain’s pro-abortion campaign

  • Oct 2
  • Fionn Shiner

The Manchester City cheating scandal makes it harder to find the good in soccer

  • Oct 1
  • Fionn Shiner

Pope asks for fairer solutions in story of disabled Spanish woman, 87, evicted from her home

  • Sep 29
  • Fionn Shiner
Pope Leo XIV next to Vatican Press Officer Matteo Bruni on the papal plane from Metz, France, to Rome, Italy, on Sep. 28, 2026. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP.)

Pope Leo says German far right’s views on Christianity ‘not authentic’

  • Sep 29
  • Charles Collins

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Pope Leo tells faithful in St. Peter’s Square he will gradually resume duties after cancer surgery

  • Oct 18
  • Colleen Barry, 
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Pope Leo returns to the Vatican 4 days after lung cancer surgery

  • Oct 17
  • Colleen Barry

An American pope brings American-style governance to the Vatican, even in a health crisis

  • Oct 17
  • Nicole Winfield

First images released of Pope Leo celebrating Mass at hospital after cancer surgery

  • Oct 16
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