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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo has spoken out about the dangers of military action by the U.S. in overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and appeared to ask President Trump to prioritize dialogue and diplomatic pressure, according to Vatican reports. The pontiff’s poignant appeal came as the White House intensified its campaign against Maduro this week, …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip is over. A six-day pilgrimage to the Middle East wrapped up Tuesday in Beirut. We were in conflict-torn Lebanon just a few miles from the country’s Ground Zero, where on Aug. 4, 2020, a deadly blast in Beirut’s port killed over 200, injured thousands and left …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV celebrated Lebanon’s tradition of interfaith coexistence Monday as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region, as he asked for “the divine gift of peace” alongside the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders. Leo received a raucous, ululating welcome from the crowds and a sincere welcome from its spiritual …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Early on Sunday, we learned the Vatican’s chartered Airbus 320, which had ferried Pope Leo XIV, his entourage and 80 journalists to Turkey on Thanksgiving Day, was safe for travel after its software had been successfully updated.  Our flight to Lebanon is on. Hallelujah! I have been on nearly a dozen papal …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV joined Eastern and Western patriarchs and priests Friday in commemorating an important anniversary in Christian history, gathering at the site in Turkey of an unprecedented A.D. 325 meeting of bishops to pray that Christians might once again be united. Leo, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and other Christian leaders met on the shores …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV is using his very first foreign trip to make a statement that blends symbolism with geopolitical consequences. By landing in Turkey this morning for the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and then into Lebanon’s ongoing economic and political freefall, the pope is stepping directly into places where …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fifty of the 303 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and are now reunited with their families, officials said Sunday, as schools across Niger remain closed following the attack. The students, ages 10 to 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most Rev. Bulus …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped several students and staff from a Catholic school early Friday, marking the latest attack on a Christian institution. Nigerian news outlet Arise TV said 52 children were abducted from St. Mary’s School. The Catholic institution is in Agwara local government’s Papiri community, according to The Associated Press, which …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly affirmed U.S. bishops’ message condemning the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, calling on Americans to listen to the migrants and treat them humanely and with dignity. The pope was asked about the “special message” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted during their general assembly last week …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV called out the latest attack against Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), calling attention to what he described as a growing global pattern of violence against the faithful. “In various parts of the world, Christians suffer discrimination and persecution. I think especially of Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sudan, …