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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (pictured) and Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of the Archdiocese of Tehran–Isfahan in Iran asked for prayers on June 16, 2025, as the conflict between Iran and Israel escalated.

Catholic cardinals in Iran and Israel pray for peace as violence escalates

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï.

Lebanese cardinal urges Christians not to leave Middle East

A makeshift memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, is seen at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Minnesota victim of political shooting ‘part of parish community’ local priest says 

Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025.

Up to 200 displaced Nigerian Christians killed in ‘worst’ attack yet

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014.

Cardinal Burke appeals for restoration of Traditional Latin Mass

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Supreme Court orders New York to revisit abortion mandate case after religious liberty win

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Los Angeles children’s hospital to shutter transgender youth program

Smoke billows from an explosion in southwest Tehran on June 16, 2025. Iran’s state broadcaster was briefly knocked off the air by an Israeli strike and explosions rang out across Tehran on June 16 after a barrage of Iranian missiles killed 11 people in Israel on the fourth day of an escalating air war.

Pope Leo XIV calls for responsibility, dialogue to end escalating Israel-Iran violence

Archbishop Georg Gänswein has been the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024.

Vatican diplomat says U.S. policy in Ukraine has disappointed Baltic allies

In 1965, at the close of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI gave Jacques Maritain a message directed to “men of thought and science.”

Vatican exposition celebrates friendship between St. Paul VI and Jacques Maritain

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