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Armed men simultaneously stormed three schools—a secondary school and two primary schools—in the Ahoro Esinele community of Oriire district, Oyo State, on Friday, May 16, seizing 39 students and seven teachers in what police described as a coordinated attack, according to Al-Jazeera. The youngest victims were toddlers of two years old; the oldest were 16.

In what is sure to be a closely watched series of catechesis, Pope Leo took up today another document from the Second Vatican Council in his general audiences dedicated to the event, This May 20 he began reflecting on the Council’s document on liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. This document is one of the most notable of

Leo XIV extended a particularly warm greeting to Armenian Patriarch Aram I, who was present alongside him at the general audience, with a dozen bishops who prayed and sang with the Successor of Peter. This May 20, 2026, the Pope said that the patriarch’s visit to Rome is an opportunity to “strengthen the bonds of

Cuba’s humanitarian crisis has reached a breaking point, and the Catholic Church is increasingly becoming one of the last places where the neediest can turn. Bishop Arturo González Amador of Santa Clara, president of the Cuban Bishops’ Conference, told Aid to the Church in Need that the island is living through “the saddest and most

Pilgrims heading to Mass at the small church of Saint Anne — especially after the Pope’s Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square — might notice a good-natured friar. He enthusiastically sings and concelebrates the liturgy. At first glance, he could just be one of the many dedicated octogenarian priests still helping out in Roman parishes.