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People hold placards reading "Vote for care. Not euthanasia" during a demonstration in Paris Feb. 16, 2026, as France debates a bill to legalize assisted dying. The bishops of Scotland in a March 10 statement expressed concerns over their own government's response to amendments that would protect faith-based organizations' and hospices' objections to assisted suicide. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

Scottish bishops urge recognition of conscientious objection over assisted suicide bill

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 13, 2026|3 Min Read

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the Chaldean Catholic patriarch based in Baghdad, Iraq, celebrates a liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 4, 2013, file photo. On March 10, 2026, Pope Leo XIV accepted resignation of Cardinal Sako, who is 77. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 10, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV prays for world leaders to "abandon projects of death" in a video message released by the Vatican March 5, 2026, asking people around the world to pray for peace. Speaking to pilgrims after praying the Angelus prayer March 8, the pope called for an end to the war in Iran and warned that the conflict could drag more countries in the Middle East into instability. (OSV News screenshot/Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)

Pope urges peace, warns about wider Middle East conflict

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 8, 2026|2 Min Read

Father Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem, poses for a photo during an interview outside the abbey June 19, 2025. Amid the escalating chaos of another war in the Middle East that began Feb. 28, 2026, Father Schnabel told OSV News that the abbey has become an "island of hope in an ocean of suffering" where even people of different faiths have found refuge. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

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As Middle East chaos grows, Jerusalem abbey becomes refuge for prayer, interfaith solidarity

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 6, 2026|5 Min Read

Debris is seen March 3, 2026, at the site of an Israeli strike March 2 on a branch of Al-Qard al-Hassan, a financial institution linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah in Beirut's southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. (OSV News photo/Stringer)

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Lebanese archbishop: Innocents are 'paying the price' of Middle East war

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 3, 2026|4 Min Read

Groups of tourists walk around the Basilica of the Holy Family, known in Spanish as Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain, June 30, 2025. Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona in June 2026 to mark the centenary of the death of the Sagrada Familia’s iconic architect, Servant of God Antoni Gaudí. (OSV News photo/Albert Gea, Reuters)

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Pope Leo's visit to Spain could spark a much-needed 'spiritual revival'

Junno Arocho Esteves and Paulina Guzik|Feb 26, 2026|6 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV, in foreground, listens as Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim leads the Roman Curia's annual Lenten retreat in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican Feb. 22, 2026. The Norwegian bishop was chosen by Pope Leo to preach at the Lenten retreat, which runs from Feb. 22 to 27, and will reflect on the theme, "Illuminated by a Hidden Glory." (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)

At Curia retreat, Bishop Varden warns of Gospel's use 'as a weapon in culture wars'

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 23, 2026|4 Min Read

A burned bus is seen Feb. 22, 2026, at the site of a highway in Santa Rita Tlahuapan, Mexico, that connects Mexico City with the state of Puebla. Members of organized crime in several states put up roadblocks and carried out arson attacks after a military operation in which Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in Tapalpa in Mexico's Jalisco state. (OSV News photo/Paola Garcia, Reuters)

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Bishops urge prudence, prayer, invoke Guadalupe's protection as violence erupts in Mexico

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 23, 2026|3 Min Read

Residents receive hot meals inside a tent at a government-run humanitarian aid point in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 23, 2026, as other locals warm up, charge their devices there, during a power blackout after critical civil infrastructure was hit by overnight Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (OSV News/Alina Smutko, Reuters)

Vatican aid a sign of Pope Leo's closeness to suffering Ukrainians, papal almoner says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 10, 2026|3 Min Read

Claire Lai, daughter of media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, who was found guilty in a Hong Kong court of national security charges, reacts during an interview in Washington Dec. 15, 2025. Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment Feb. 9, 2026. During his trial in December, he pleaded not guilty to all charges. (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters)

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Jimmy Lai's daughter hopes for 'political solution' after devastating sentence

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 10, 2026|4 Min Read

Jimmy Lai, a prominent Hong Kong Catholic, philanthropist and media mogul, is pictured in Hong Kong May 29, 2020. On Dec. 15, 2025, three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment Feb. 9, 2026. (OSV News photo/Tyrone Siu, Reuters)

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Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20-year imprisonment

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 9, 2026|4 Min Read

Father Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X is pictured following his election during the society's 2018 general chapter in Econe, Switzerland. In a statement published Feb. 2, 2026, the society said that Father Pagliarani "publicly announced his decision to entrust the bishops of the Society with the task of proceeding with new episcopal consecrations." (OSV News photo/courtesy fsspx.news)

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Society of St. Pius X to consecrate new bishops in July without papal mandate

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 3, 2026|4 Min Read

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