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Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to restore unity in a world marred by conflict, and in a church stained by division.

The judge in the administrative capital of the Basque Country ruled during the proceedings at Criminal Court No. 1 that they had “done nothing more than exercise their free right of assembly” and had behaved in an “exquisitely peaceful manner.”

The children at St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community were jolted from their sleep with a loud crash at the school gate. Half asleep and confused, they dashed out of their dorms, some landing in the hands of gunmen.

Recently, the handcuffing and chaining of citizens who are illegally in the United States and sending them back to their countries is inhumane says the secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bangladesh Catholic Bishops' Conference.

PAPIRI, Nigeria — Several parents welcomed the return late Tuesday night of their children, who were abducted last month when gunmen stormed their school. “It has not been easy for me… But today, in fact, I have a little bit of joy, especially because there is still one abducted. But