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EU bishops condemn court ruling on same-sex unions

  • Dec 9
  • Elise Ann Allen
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Pope Leo XIV wave to journalists during their meeting in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Zelenskyy meets with Pope Leo for the third time

  • Dec 9
  • Paolo Santalucia, 
    Illia Novikov, Associated Press
A Nativity scene containing characters with cloth faces, by Belgian artist Victoria-Maria Geyer, is displayed in a white tent in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Sylvain Plazy/AP.)

A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene

  • Dec 2
  • Sylvain Plazy, 
    Associated Press
Auction officer Jean-Pierre Osenat gestures as the long-lost painting “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction for 2,3 million euros or $2.66 million in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

  • Dec 1
  • Associated Press
A worker prepares a handmade Christmas bauble at GlitterLab in Czestochowa, Poland on Nov. 21, 2025. (Credit: Czarek Sokolowski/AP.)

The Polish ‘magicians of glass’ who create Christmas baubles for clients worldwide

  • Nov 30
  • Radal Niedzielski, 
    Associated Press
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse maintains his innocence

  • Nov 27
  • Fionn Shiner
People visit Herrnhuter Sterne GmbH manufacturing, a Christmas stars manufacturing company in Herrnhut, Germany, Nov. 10, 2025. (Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP.)

Moravian stars light up Germany’s Christmas season

  • Nov 27
  • Kirsten Grieshaber, 
    Associated Press
In this July 8, 2021, file photo, a lobster boat carries a heavy load of traps as it motors out to sea near Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP.)

Fishing industry facing new challenges, and the Church is trying to help

  • Nov 25
  • Charles Collins
Visitors walk through the Magdeburg Christmas market, in Magdeburg, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Matthias Bein/dpa via AP.)

Germany’s Christmas markets open with festive cheer and tight security

  • Nov 24
  • Kirsten Grieshaber, 
    Associated Press
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the referendum on assisted dying for terminally ill patients, in Domzale, Slovenia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Credit: Darko Bandic/AP.)

Slovenians reject in a referendum a law on assisted dying for terminally ill patients

  • Nov 24
  • Associated Press

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Pope criticizes US bid to ‘break apart’ US-Europe alliance, insists on Europe role in Ukraine peace

  • Dec 10
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Associated Press

Indigenous artifacts returned by the Vatican are now at a Canadian museum

  • Dec 10
  • Associated Press

Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era

  • Dec 10
  • Melanie Lidman, 
    Associated Press

Christian pastor murdered in Muslim-majority Pakistan

  • Dec 10
  • Nirmala Carvalho