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Pope Leo XVI greets Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut during the pontiff's general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 2, 2026. Poczobut, a Catholic dissident, returned to Belarus Sept. 8, after five months in exile in Poland, saying he was prepared to risk arrest and urging Western Catholics to remember Christians imprisoned by the Alexander Lukashenka regime. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media/Catholic Press Photo)

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After papal audience, Catholic dissident Poczobut heads back to Belarus

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 9, 2026|5 Min Read

A sculpture of St. John of the Cross is seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The 16th-century saint, coined the term "dark night of the soul" in its spiritual meaning, describing the crisis of doubt he underwent but also was testament that eventually the darkness leaves and light returns. (OSV News photo/Peter Lockley)

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Amid modern darkness, St. John of the Cross offers a path through the night

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 25, 2026|5 Min Read

Migrant children wait outside a police station in Ceuta, Spain, Aug. 6, 2026, to be registered following mass crossings by migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish territory. (OSV News photo/Violeta Santos Moura, Reuters)

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After border crisis, Ceuta's Catholics push dignity over division

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 6, 2026|6 Min Read

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks during an election campaign rally in Gyor March 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Bernadett Szabo, pool via Reuters)

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Hungarian election stirs unease among Catholics amid Church preelectoral silence

Jonathan Luxmoore|Apr 9, 2026|4 Min Read

Iranian Christians take part in the New Year prayer service at a church in Tehran Jan. 1, 2025. (OSV News photo/Majid Asgaripour, WANA via Reuters)

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Iran's exiled Christians watch events unfolding across Middle East with hope and fear

Jonathan Luxmoore|Mar 5, 2026|5 Min Read

A bird walks near the Houses of Parliament in London April 12, 2025. Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool, the lead bishop for life issues of the bishops' conference of England and Wales, called on Catholics Sept. 1, 2025, to write to members of the House of Lords to urge them to oppose an assisted suicide bill which could trigger the closure of church-run hospices and care homes. (OSV News photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

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UK Catholic lawmakers fight to stop 'outrageous' bills on assisted suicide, abortion up to birth

Jonathan Luxmoore|Feb 13, 2026|5 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shakes hands during a news conference after their lunch meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 28, 2025. Trump said he believes both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin truly want peace, as he welcomed the "brave" Ukrainian leader for talks at his Florida resort. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

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Ukrainian bishop issues letter to American people amid Trump-Zelenskyy talks

Jonathan Luxmoore|Dec 29, 2025|5 Min Read

Henadz Fiadynich, one of the prisoners recently released from Belarus, speaks during a press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)

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Jailed Catholic priests 'used as hostages' in Belarus

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 18, 2025|6 Min Read

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster speaks to Britain's King Charles III, William, the Prince of Wales, and Kate, the Princess of Wales, following the funeral Mass for the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral in London Sept. 16, 2025. This is the first Catholic funeral held for a member of the royal family in modern British history. Katharine, who died Sept. 5 at age 92, was the wife of the late queen's cousin the Duke of Kent and became a Catholic in 1994. (OSV News photo/Jordan Pettitt, Pool via Reuters)

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Funeral Mass for British duchess dubbed historic with presence of king, top royals

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 17, 2025|5 Min Read

Mass to mark the annual Aid to the Church in Need "Red Wednesday" commemoration for persecuted Christians at St. George's Cathedral in London Nov. 22, 2023. Europe's top security body warns anti-Christian hate crimes are rising sharpy -- fueled by "religious illiteracy" and growing hostility in public life. (OSV News photo/Marcin Mazur, courtesy ACN)

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Rights experts highlight rising anti-Christian hate crime in Europe

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 27, 2025|4 Min Read

Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine, looks at a destroyed vehicle in in the summer of 2022 in the eastern Ukrainian region covered by the diocese. (OSV News photo/courtesy Bishop Sobilo)

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Ukraine church tensions surface in wake of Alaska summit

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Oblate Father Andrzej Juchniewicz, who was sentenced April 30 to 13 years' imprisonment on unspecified political charges in Belarus, is seen in an undated photograph. His Polish religious order, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has requested prayers from Christians worldwide for Father Juchniewicz and another priest who began a draconian 11-year sentence April 20, Father Henrykh Akalatovich, an elderly parish rector from Valozyn. (OSV News photo/courtesy katolik.life)

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Polish order appeals for prayers as Catholic priests face draconian sentences in Belarus

Jonathan Luxmoore|May 27, 2025|4 Min Read

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