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Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Pope Leo XIV highlights role of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Blessed Juan de Palafox in Mexico

Nov 7, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Pope Leo XIV in a message to the 17th National Missionary Congress of Mexico noted that the greatest privilege of... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV addresses employment consultants on Dec. 18, 2025, at the Vatican.

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A group set fire to the office of the country’s top Bangla newspaper, Prothom Alo, late on Dec. 19, 2025, to protest the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a front-line leader of a 2024 uprising in Bangladesh.

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