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Al Jazeera reporter Nour Abu Rokba works as Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip

Holy Land patriarch welcomes news of initial peace deal

OSV News October 10, 2025

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomed "with joy" the announcement of an initial agreement between Hamas and Israel in an Oct. 9 statement, but also stressed the "absolute urgency" for the "immediate" and "unconditional" entry of humanitarian relief and sufficient ...

Pope Leo XIV gives a thumbs-up as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Aug. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo XIV’s General Audience

OSV News August 7, 2025

This is the text of the catechesis and appeal from Pope Leo XIV’s Aug. 6, 2025 general audience given in St. Peter’s Square.

A file photo shows a homeless person trying to stay warm at the entrance of a Metro station near the White House in Washington. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

Trump’s executive order seeks to remove homeless from streets

OSV News August 6, 2025

The question was shouted at President Donald Trump as the commander in chief, headed for Scotland, was ready to depart the South Lawn on July 25.

The city of Nagasaki, Japan, showed scant signs of recovery four years after an atomic bomb was detonated over the city Aug. 9, 1945. Ahead of 78th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the chair of U.S. bishops' international policy committee calls both for remembrance of the bombings and for nuclear arms control. (OSV News photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files, USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters) Editors: This cutline has been updated to correct anniversary date.

Nagasaki Franciscan monastery stands as messenger of peace

OSV News August 5, 2025

Eighty years ago two of the world's deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction.

Pilgrims gather near a portrait of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, where his relics are displayed July 31, 2025, during the Jubilee of Youth, ahead of his Sept. 7 canonization. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Acutis relics a reminder for pilgrims that holiness ‘is not impossible’

Catholic News Service August 4, 2025

Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.

Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen amid a hunger crisis in the central Gaza Strip July 29, 2025.

Against the odds, CRS has delivered aid to 1.7 million in Gaza since 2023

OSV News July 31, 2025

Despite daunting odds, Catholic Relief Services and its on-the-ground partners have managed to deliver aid to 1.7 million people in Gaza since 2023, according to new data.

New York City police officers stand at attention for the ambulance transfer of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City early July 29, 2025.

‘Never get used to violence,’ says NY cardinal after mass shooting near St. Patrick’s

OSV News July 30, 2025

"We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life," said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, following a deadly mass shooting in that city that claimed four lives, including that of ...