The closure occurred in a context of growing political debates around the challenges posed by the expansion of Islam in the country.

The U.S. House of Representatives advanced the bill that would extend temporary protected status (TPS) for Haiti through 2029 in April, and the measure has stalled in the Senate.

“We are a bastion of faith that loudly proclaims the value of the faith in the building of a country,” said Bishop Ramón Valdivia, Ceuta’s apostolic administrator.

Police are investigating the attack on St. Rita Catholic Church as a hate crime, the Diocese of Brooklyn said.

Pope Benedict XVI once said the Transfiguration of Jesus prepared his apostles for “the coming scandal of the cross.”

The Diocese of Chiclayo noted that Pope Leo XIV’s return to Peru will represent a moment of great significance for the people.

The move would invoke one of the highest‑level diplomatic tools by the hemisphere’s principal political body, a 35-nation consortium coordinating regional action on democracy and human rights.

This marks the first time since 2014 that the papal image has been printed on the coins.

Pope Leo XIV’s new Fundamental Law removes language linking papal sovereignty over Vatican City to the Petrine office and allows laypeople to lead the city-state’s governing commission.

The bishop of Hiroshima is leading a prayer relay running until the exact minute the second atomic bomb struck Nagasaki.