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Members of Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024. An Indigenous coalition filed an updated lawsuit in federal district court on April 22, 2026, their latest attempt to stop a land transfer including their sacred site at Oak Flat, Ariz., from destruction by a copper mining giant. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Indigenous coalition continues challenge to mining project on religious liberty grounds

Kate Scanlon|Apr 23, 2026|4 Min Read

Expert restorers work in the conservation laboratory for ethnological materials at the Vatican Museums in this file photo from 2013. Many of the 100,000 artifacts sent to the Vatican via missionaries over the centuries are made of delicate materials such as ostrich plumes, leather and glass beads. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Museums)

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Pope Leo returns Canada’s indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums

Cindy Wooden|Nov 17, 2025|3 Min Read

LaCrosse, Wisconsin. (JTTucker/Shutterstock)

Wisconsin religious community announces historic land return to indigenous tribe

Daniel Payne|Nov 7, 2025|3 Min Read

Members of Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024, the day the Native American-led coalition filed an appeal asking the high court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing development of a copper mine in Oak Flat, Ariz., on a site Apache people consider sacred. The U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 2025, rejected their appeal. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Supreme Court rejects Indigenous coalition's appeal over mine's threat to sacred site

Kate Scanlon|May 27, 2025|3 Min Read

Indigenous women dip their hands in holy water during a Jan. 21 service in Mexico's southern Chiapas state. (CNS photo/David Agren)

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Vatican approves liturgical adaptations for Indigenous cultures in Mexico

Eduardo Campos Lima|Nov 26, 2024|4 Min Read

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Despite hopes, Brazil's Indigenous communities still unsafe, bishops' report says

OSV News|Jul 23, 2024|4 Min Read

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Indigenous groups, Catholic leaders growing impatient with Lula in Brazil

Eduardo Campos Lima|Jul 29, 2023|5 Min Read

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Bishops, Indigenous Catholics welcome Vatican condemnation of 'Doctrine of Discovery'

Gina Christian|Mar 30, 2023|6 Min Read

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World must work with Indigenous people to fight climate change, pope says

Justin McLellan|Feb 10, 2023|2 Min Read

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Brazilian church provides aid to the Yanomami suffering from 'genocide'

Eduardo Campos Lima|Feb 7, 2023|5 Min Read

Indian troops resting on the road from Villers-Cotterets to Soissons on the way to relieve French and American units, July 21, 1918. (Wikimedia Commons)

Indigenous history gets an ideological twist

Msgr. Richard Antall|Nov 29, 2022|6 Min Read

Bishop Christopher Saunders, former bishop of Broome, Australia, is pictured in Rome June 27, 2019. Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge will conduct an investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct against Bishops Saunders. The bishop denies the allegations. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

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Australian archbishop investigating retired bishop on abuse allegations

Michael Sainsbury|Sep 26, 2022|3 Min Read

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