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This image released by the Minya governorate media office shows bodies of victims killed when gunmen stormed a bus in Minya, Egypt, Friday, May 26, 2017 (Minya Governorate Media office via AP).
Politics & Society Vatican Dispatch
May 26, 2017
The attack in central Egypt today killed at least 26 people, including children aged 2 to 4, and wounded 25 others.
Pope Francis talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican May 24. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See POPE-TRUMP-MEET May 24, 2017
Politics & Society Vatican Dispatch
May 25, 2017
Media reports that the meeting was “cold” are “a gross misinterpretation,” a Vatican source told America.
Pope Francis meets with President Donald Trump on the occasion of their private audience, at the Vatican on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)
Faith News
May 24, 2017
President Donald Trump and Pope Francis held a private 30-minute meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday laden with religious symbolism and ancient protocol.
Pope Francis waves during a visit to give an Easter blessing to homes in a public housing complex in Ostia, a Rome suburb on the Mediterranean Sea, May 19 (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano).
Faith Vatican Dispatch
May 22, 2017
Vatican leaders seem quietly confident that the meeting will go well.
Faith Dispatches
May 21, 2017
The new cardinals named by Pope Francis come from El Salvador, Laos, Mali, Spain and Sweden.
Palestinian protesters run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops in clashes on May 15 during a protest in the West Bank town of Bethlehem marking the 69th anniversary of their uprooting. Palestinians call the 1948 uprooting "nakba" or catastrophe. (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)
Politics & Society Vatican Dispatch
May 15, 2017
The conflict is almost certain to be on the agenda for discussion when President Trump comes to the Vatican.
Politics & Society Vatican Dispatch
May 13, 2017
Pope says he will not pre-judge Trump and that Marie Collins had some good reasons for her resignation from the sex abuse commission.
Pope Francis embraces Lucas Batista from Brazil as offertory gifts are presented during the canonization Mass of Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
Faith
May 13, 2017
Pope Francis made history by canonizing Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the first child saints who are not martyrs.
Pilgrims arrive at the Marian shrine of Fatima May 10 in central Portugal (CNS photo/Paulo Cunha, EPA).
Faith Vatican Dispatch
May 11, 2017
One million pilgrims are expected to join Pope Francis in Fatima on May 12 to 13 for the centenary celebration of the apparitions of Our Lady to three Portuguese shepherd children.
Portuguese shepherd children Lucia dos Santos, center, and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, are seen in a file photo taken around the time of the 1917 apparitions of Mary at Fatima. (CNS photo/EPA)
Faith Vatican Dispatch
May 10, 2017
On Saturday Pope Francis will canonize two of the children who saw the Marian apparitions in 1917.