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Afghan men search for their belongings amidst the rubble of a collapsed house after a deadly 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan around midnight, in Dara Mazar, in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 1, 2025. (OSV News/Reuters)

World

Pope 'saddened' by deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 1, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Francis leads his weekly general audience Aug. 7, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/LolaGomez)

In times of trial know that nothing is impossible for God, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Aug 7, 2024|4 Min Read

Rescuers carry injured people to a helicopter following an earthquake in a mountainous, remote region of Afghanistan, June 22, 2022, in this screen grab taken from a video. (CNS photo/BAKHTAR NEWS AGENCY, handout via Reuters)

World

Pope offers prayers for victims of earthquake in Afghanistan

Catholic News Service|Jun 22, 2022|1 Min Read

People in Shanghai, China, attend an Easter Vigil service April 3, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Aly Song/Reuters, CNS via Crux)

World

U.S. religious freedom body highlights Nigeria, Russia in new report

John Lavenburg|Apr 28, 2022|6 Min Read

A Taliban fighter guards a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. (CNS photo/Ali Khara, Reuters)

World

Catholic refugees from Afghanistan in 'purgatory' waiting for visas

Mark Pattison|Jan 11, 2022|7 Min Read

From left to right, Cpl. Hunter Lopez’s cousins and his aunt, Myrna, uncle Juan Carlos Lopez and grandparents Carlos and Helen Lopez, stand at the traditional “Dia de los Muertos” prayer altar built in Lopez’s memory at Calvary Cemetery in East LA. Lopez was killed Aug. 26 in Kabul during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. (Victor Alemán)

Family honors slain Marine at East LA ‘Dia de los Muertos’ event

Tom Hoffarth|Nov 4, 2021|5 Min Read

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, is pictured at the Collegio San Colombano in Rome June 26, 2018. (Robert Duncan/CNS)

World

Pakistan cardinal blames ‘duplicity’ of West for rise of Islamic extremism

Inés San Martín|Oct 20, 2021|9 Min Read

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, speaks at a symposium on religious freedom presented by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome in 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

Pakistan cardinal says homeland has ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’

Inés San Martín|Oct 19, 2021|8 Min Read

Barnabite Father Giovanni Scalese holds a baggage trolley, right, as he arrives with five Missionaries of Charity nuns at Rome's Fiumicino airport Aug. 25, 2021, after the group was evacuated from Afghanistan. Father Scalese, who was head of the sole Catholic mission in Afghanistan, told the Vatican newspaper that now is a time of waiting for God to indicate a new path for the missionary church in Afghanistan. (CNS photo/ANSA)

Faith

Forced to flee Afghanistan, Catholic mission waits to start a 'new page'

Carol Glatz|Oct 13, 2021|4 Min Read

Afghan refugees in Dulles, Va., board a bus taking them to a processing center Aug. 29, 2021, upon arrival at Dulles International Airport. (CNS photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

Dioceses prepare to welcome first Afghans starting new lives in U.S.

Dennis Sadowski|Sep 15, 2021|5 Min Read

Pope Francis greets people after a documentary screening at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, Sept. 6, 2021. (Vatican Media via CNA)

Pope Francis greets Afghan refugees after Vatican documentary screening

Catholic News Agency|Sep 7, 2021|3 Min Read

Afghan citizens evacuated from Kabul disembark from a U.S Air Force transport plane as they arrive at Naval Station Rota Air Base in Rota, Spain, Aug. 31, 2021. (CNS photo/Jon Nazca, Reuters)

World

Catholic aid group seeks to expand humanitarian corridors for Afghan refugees

Elise Ann Allen|Sep 2, 2021|4 Min Read

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