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Honoring America's first saint, Pope Leo sends strong message on immigrants
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (426+ words) Pope Leo XIV has used a visit honoring St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, viewed as the first American saint and patron saint of immigrants, to deliver his latest appeal on behalf of them. The American-born pontiff asked Catholics to look to…...
Attacks on Holy Land Christians continue and are mounting, says report
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (396+ words) Attacks by Jews against Christians in the Holy Land could exceed those of 2025, according to a new 2026 report to the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue. The center reported that 155 incidents targeting Christians were documented in Israel during 2025, according to…...
World churches body holding prayers for peace in Ukraine on June 11
1+ week, 4+ day ago (307+ words) As part of a series of global prayers for peace, the World Council of Churches'has invited people and churches worldwide to join the Global Prayer for Peace in Ukraine on June 11. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine entered its 1, 568th day on…...
US Defense Department slashes number of recognized religions for the military
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (460+ words) The U. S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them are Christian denominations. Military. com said on June 4, it has learned that…...
First female Lutheran bishop in Kenya welcomed by Lutheran World Federation
3+ week, 2+ day ago (322+ words) The Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has installed its first woman bishop, Catherine Ngina Musau, at a ceremony attended by thousands of people. After her May 24 installation, she urged Christians to "build bridges instead of walls, preserve unity amid diversity, serving…...
Nigeria facing crisis of religious violence, according to monitoring group
3+ week, 3+ day ago (854+ words) Nigeria is facing a terrifying crisis of religious violence and according to recent estimates, targeted violence has claimed the lives of nearly 53, 000 Nigerian civilians since 2009, says the U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The year 2009 was the year the USCIRF…...
Disarmament of artificial intelligence message by Pope Leo backed by ecumenical groups
3+ week, 4+ day ago (436+ words) Pope Leo's first encyclical of his papacy asserted that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it gleaned strong approval from ecumenical groups. "Artificial intelligence already…...
Pope Leo calls for the Holy Spirit to save humanity from 'evil of war' in Pentecostal address
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (401+ words) Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive guardians of it....
US religious freedom body says India's religious freedom on 'downward trajectory"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (336+ words) Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U. S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about discrimination, arbitrary detention and violence directed against Christians and other religious minorities. At a May 7 hearing on Capitol Hill, members of the…...
Ukrainian religious leader says churches in besieged country are united in commitment to peace
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (531+ words) The chair of the Ukrainian Council of Churches says that what unites all his country's Christian communities and other religious organizations, is "the shared longing for an end to the war, and a commitment to prayer for peace." Bishop S'ndor…...