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Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola greet supporters at the Santiago Cathedral after attending Mass in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Credit: Esteban Felix/AP.)

Chile’s new President José Antonio Kast brings openly religious views to a changing country

Apr 2
María Teresa Hernández,
Nayara Batschke, Associated Press

Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the opposition Republican Party, waves after winning the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most conservative president in decades

Dec 15, 2025
Isabel Debre,
Nayara Batschke, Associated Press

The Harmony Hill campus is seen June 10, 2026, in Watertown, S.D. (Credit: Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch via AP.)

Monastery makeover: Nuns leave lasting legacy of service in Watertown, South Dakota

Sep 10
Bart Pfankuch/ South Dakota News Watch

Top European bishop to Crux Now: Fear of immigration shows Europe’s identity crisis

Sep 10
Fionn Shiner

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Bishops' Conference secretary, presents on the conference's new mission directive on Nov. 13. The new mission directive, which was overwhelmingly approved, prioritizes evangelizing the disaffiliated, unaffiliated, and young people. (Credit: USCCB Public Affairs.)

Archbishop asks for peace in a ‘fractured and divided world’ on 25th anniversary of 9/11

Sep 10
Crux Now Staff

Holy Land situation ‘not positive,’ as internal battles in Islam pose global challenges to dialogue

Sep 10
Fionn Shiner

Credit: Unsplash.)

British parliament rejects bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide

Sep 11
Associated Press

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, right, talks with his brother and farm manager, Cesar Marroquin, in a small field of vegetables growing on his farm, Salvatierra Farms, in Northfield, Minn., Friday, June 19, 2026. (Credit: Jessie Wardarski/AP.)

For these Midwest farmers, regenerative agriculture is about more than soil health. It’s spiritual

Sep 11
Jessie Wardarski

Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Scottish bishop tells Crux Now proposed change to Scotland’s abortion law could limit conscientious objection

Sep 11
Charles Collins

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Bishops' Conference secretary, presents on the conference's new mission directive on Nov. 13. The new mission directive, which was overwhelmingly approved, prioritizes evangelizing the disaffiliated, unaffiliated, and young people. (Credit: USCCB Public Affairs.)

Archbishop asks for peace in a ‘fractured and divided world’ on 25th anniversary of 9/11

Sep 10
Crux Now Staff