Religion

Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope offers prayers for quake-stricken Southeast Asia from convalescence in Vatican

Pope Francis offered prayers to the victims of a powerful earthquake in Southeast Asia on the sixth day of his convalescence in the Vatican after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Middle East latest: Israel strikes Beirut for first time since ceasefire with Hezbollah

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Suspected US strikes pummel Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, Israel,Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel’s antisemitism conference draws Europe’s far-right leaders to Jerusalem

In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Israel’s parliament approves a key part of Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul

Mahmoud Fanas, a "musaharati,"or "dawn caller," who beats on a drum to wake up Muslims for a meal before sunrise during Ramadan, walks through old streets in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

With the bang of his drum, he wakes up the whole neighborhood in a Ramadan tradition

Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray during Laylat Al Qadr, also known as the Night of Power and marked on the 27th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill a family of 6 and a Hamas spokesman in Gaza

A teenager uses a smartphone to take a picture at the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw

Demonstrators gather at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, to support and oppose a bill that would ban all abortion. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)

A bill proposing a near-total abortion ban causes an uproar at Georgia’s Capitol

This photo provided by WKRC-TV shows St. Anthony of Padua Church, where a Communion wafer with red marks was discovered, in Morris, Ind. (WKRC-TV via AP)

It was bacteria — not a miracle — on a Communion wafer in Indiana church

Protestors demonstrate outside the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Spiritual adviser to man executed by firing squad: ‘We’re more than the worst thing we’ve done.’

A mosaic by ex-Jesuit artist Marko Rupnik is seen on the main facade of the Church of Our Lady of the Canadian Martyrs, June 28, 2024, in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Jesuits make broad offer of reparations to women who say they were abused by ex-Jesuit artist

This cover image released by Penguin Young Readers shows "We Can Be Brave: How We Learn To Be Brave in Life's Decisive Moments" by Mariann Edgar Budde. (Penguin Young Readers via AP)

Episcopal bishop criticized by President Trump has a 2-book deal with young readers publisher

Luisa Arguello, second from right, and other parishioners pray in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Hialeah, Fla., on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Perpetual adoration is a growing Catholic trend. A Holy Year event is scheduled for the weekend

Palestinians hold signs against the war as a man chants slogans in support of the people in Bait Lahiya who came out against Hamas Tuesday in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israel orders more evacuations and Palestinians stage rare anti-Hamas protests

Palestinians chant slogans during an anti-war protest and against Hamas in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza

A bell is seen broken at the remains of the bell pavilion due to wildfires at Gounsa Temple in Uiseong, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea’s centuries-old Gounsa temple is left in ruins by unprecedented wildfires

Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod, Haaretz, File)

Told to fix notorious prison, Israel just relocated alleged abuses, detainees say

A person walks past houses destroyed by wildfires at a village in Yeongyang, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Yun Kwan-shik/Yonhap via AP)

At least 24 dead as wildfires ravage southern South Korea

From left, SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, activists Sarah Pearson, Peter Isely and president Shaun Dougherty talk to reporters during a press conference, in Rome, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Catholic Church sex abuse survivors launch database vetting cardinals’ records

King Charles III’s audience with Pope Francis postponed by mutual agreement on medical advice

Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Francis’ doctors considered stopping treatment to ‘let him go’ after serious breathing crisis

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land," is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Oscar-winning Palestinian director says Israeli soldiers beat him after attack by settlers

A person walks past a pride flag at Casa Frida, a shelter that supports LGBTQ+ migrants, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

How a shelter hit by Trump’s aid cuts protects LGBTQ migrants in Mexico

This photo taken on June 21, 2022 shows a recipe for mutton pulao from Maryam Jillani's book, "Pakistan." (Maryam Jillani via AP)

The cookbook ‘Pakistan’ serves up recipes for mutton pulao, garlic chutney and sweet seviyan

This combination of photos shows cover art for the cookbook "Pakistan," by Maryam Jillani, left, and a dessert recipe from the book called seviyan. (Hardie Grant Publishing via AP, left, and Sonny Thakur via AP)

As Ramadan ends, a new cookbook sheds light on Pakistan’s varied cuisine

The entrance of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, is seen on Nov. 7, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

What is the Unification Church and why did a Japanese court order it dissolved?

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land," is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Middle East latest: Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker is released after Israelis assaulted him

Nobuya Fukumoto, foreground center, a lawyer for the Unification Church, is surrounded by reporters after the church was ordered dissolved by the Tokyo District Court, in front of the court in Tokyo Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Court in Japan orders the dissolution of the Unification Church

A doctor assists 13-year-old Palestinian Yamen Asfour as he learns to walk on a prosthetic leg at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City on Tuesday, Feb. 18. 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza’s child amputees struggle with recovery, especially after Israel’s cutoff of aid

A group of sheikhs call for the prayer during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Friday March 7, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

This Ramadan, relief and hope bump against violence and uncertainty in the new Syria

CORRECTS DATE: Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, is detained by the Israeli military from his home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Raviv Rose via AP)

Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an explosive ordnance was "dropped or fired" in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee

Will Smith poses for a portrait on Monday, March 17, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Will Smith channels his post-slap introspection into music on ‘Based on a True Story’