Religion and Faith

Hoang Phuc Nguyen, a Vietnamese pilgrim, prays for Pope Francis at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 where Pope Francis is hospitalised since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Hoang Phuc Nguyen, a Vietnamese pilgrim, prays for Pope Francis at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 where Pope Francis is hospitalised since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Health

Vatican says Pope Francis is critical but stable with no new respiratory crises

FEB. 25, 2025

This photo provided by World Relief shows care group volunteers Neimate Mustafa and John Simon Mbiliwele, who provide community health education, visiting a homestead in January 2022, in Maridi, South Sudan. (Esther Mbabazi/World Relief via AP)
This photo provided by World Relief shows care group volunteers Neimate Mustafa and John Simon Mbiliwele, who provide community health education, visiting a homestead in January 2022, in Maridi, South Sudan. (Esther Mbabazi/World Relief via AP)

Religion and Faith

Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices about who to help after USAID funding pause

FEB. 12, 2025

Pope Francis presides over a mass for the jubilee of the armed forces in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday Feb.9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope Francis presides over a mass for the jubilee of the armed forces in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday Feb.9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Religion and Faith

Pope rebukes Trump administration over immigrant deportations and appears to aim directly at Vance

FEB. 11, 2025

Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Religion and Faith

At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism

JAN. 27, 2025

FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving a mass outside the San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving a mass outside the San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Religion and Faith

Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at least about his youth

JAN. 14, 2025

Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Religion and Faith

Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota

JAN. 8, 2025

FILE - A statue of former German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (made by Fritz Fleer) stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, Feb. 3, 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in the concentration camp Flossenbuerg on April 9, 1944. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)
FILE - A statue of former German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (made by Fritz Fleer) stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, Feb. 3, 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in the concentration camp Flossenbuerg on April 9, 1944. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)

Religion and Faith

What would Bonhoeffer do? Anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy claimed, debated across political spectrum

JAN. 7, 2025

Kathleen Krueger and her daughter, Megan, 28, sit together at their home in Racine, Wis., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
Kathleen Krueger and her daughter, Megan, 28, sit together at their home in Racine, Wis., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Religion and Faith

How faith communities can be welcoming of believers with disabilities this holiday season and beyond

DEC. 23, 2024

An Armenian Christian priest walks along an alley near to St. James Cathedral at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
An Armenian Christian priest walks along an alley near to St. James Cathedral at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Religion and Faith

As wars rage around them, Armenian Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City feel the walls closing in

DEC. 18, 2024

This combination of 2024 photos shows, from left, Sheri Autrey, Pam Walton and Lisa Webb, former members of the Christian sect “Two by Twos.” (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Mengshin Lin, Mike Stewart)
This combination of 2024 photos shows, from left, Sheri Autrey, Pam Walton and Lisa Webb, former members of the Christian sect “Two by Twos.” (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Mengshin Lin, Mike Stewart)

Religion and Faith

Survivors seek a reckoning as FBI investigates child sex abuse in little-known Christian sect

DEC. 16, 2024

A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Religion and Faith

Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status

DEC. 9, 2024

Election 2024 Abortion Family Photo Gallery
The Young children from left, Gianna, Isaac, and Lucas, attend the Ohio March for Life, with their mom Erin Young, right, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. All three children are adopted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Religion and Faith

Photo essay from rural Ohio captures anti-abortion family’s life, activism and crucial slice of American electorate

DEC. 6, 2024

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