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Leaders of the Christian community lay wreaths at the grave of Father Charles Joseph Young at the Holy Rosary Church cemetery in Dhaka on Nov. 14, 2025.

How an American missionary empowered Bangladesh’s Christian community

Nov 18, 2025

By Stephan Uttom Rozario

Father Charles Joseph Young founded a credit union in 1955 that lifted Bangladesh’s Christians from poverty and now has $122.6... Read more

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations, meets Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on Nov. 4, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV may visit Sri Lanka, Vatican diplomat says

Nov 10, 2025

By Santosh Digal

A top Vatican diplomat visited Sri Lanka this month and said Pope Leo XIV may visit the country, as the... Read more

The main gate of Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, shows damage after two homemade bomb explosions on Oct. 8, 2025.

Bangladesh police arrest suspect in bomb attacks on Catholic sites

Nov 10, 2025

By Stephan Uttom Rozario

Dhaka police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with homemade bomb attacks that targeted a Catholic cathedral and a... Read more

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Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong activist and Catholic Jimmy Lai, speaks with EWTN News President Montse Alvarado on “EWTN News Nightly” on Dec. 8, 2025.

Daughter of political prisoner Jimmy Lai speaks out for the first time

Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians.

Remnants of chapel where image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was originally kept still exist

A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525.

Meet the Franciscan friar who baptized St. Juan Diego

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Trump honors Mary’s ‘freedom from original sin’ in Immaculate Conception message

Spectators gather in Nativity Square during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Bethlehem on Dec. 6, 2025.

Bethlehem lights Christmas tree again while conflict still echoes nearby

The Blessed Mother and the Child Jesus.

Mariologists publish scathing critique of Vatican note on Mary’s titles

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.

Benedict XVI’s former secretary hopes the pope’s beatification process will open soon

Republican Gov. William Lee, pictured in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., in September 2025, should stop all executions and support an end to the death penalty, faith leaders said at a Dec. 8, 2025, press conference hosted by the Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP).

Tennessee faith leaders call on Gov. Lee to stop executions

Pope Leo XIV receives Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (center), Archbishop Richard Smith of Vancouver (right), and Father Jean Vézina, secretary-general of the Canadian bishops (left), in a Nov. 15, 2025, meeting at which the Holy Father gifted dozens of artifacts that originated with Indigenous peoples of the North American country. Leo at the meeting donated 62 pieces from the ethnological collections of the Vatican Museums to the Canadian bishops.

Indigenous artifacts from Vatican welcomed in Montreal ceremony

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Baton Rouge Diocese announces Sunday Mass dispensation for migrants fearing deportation

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