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Cameroon bishop: Church provides ‘presence of hope’ amid separatist conflict

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Cameroon bishop: Church provides ‘presence of hope’ amid separatist conflict

Mar 9
Ngala Killian Chimtom

A firefighter extinguishes a burned shop at a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

In war-torn Lebanon, a Filipino Jesuit stands with abandoned migrants

Mar 6
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

The Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers, Algeria. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Bishop says Pope’s visit to show Christianity ‘an asset to Algeria’

Mar 6
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Then-Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo speaks during a briefing about the assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2023. (Credit: Credit: Lola Gomez/CNS.)

Japanese cardinal says a ‘polite persecution’ faces Christians in Japan

Feb 28
Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Leo XIV receives the letters of credential of Brian F. Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See during an audience Sept. 13, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

US Ambassador sees potential for ‘Catholic Moment’ with Leo

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

Brian Burch speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination for to be Ambassador to The Holy See, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP.)

US immigration law ‘not rooted in hate or xenophobia,’ ambassador says

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

Pages from the U.S. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website are arranged for a photograph in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Credit{ Patrick Sison/AP.)

Assisted suicide increases rates of non-medical suicide, statistics show

Feb 25
Charles Collins

Lion of Three Worlds: New book examines papal office at dawn of Leonine era

Feb 18
Charles Collins

‘Nostalgia, measured optimism, and a forlorn feeling’: Bp Matthew Kukah on 30 years of Ecclesia in Africa

Feb 17
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Cuban bishop calls for dialogue amid protracted national crisis

Feb 17
Elise Ann Allen