The report comes as Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, has taken aim at the treatment of migrants in the U.S. amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and has most recently criticized the president’s threat to Iran that a “whole civilization will die” as “truly unacceptable.”

It’s an unprecedented situation, with the first American pope directly assailing the American president over the war in Iran, where a fragile ceasefire took hold this week. The announcement came after Pope Leo XIV declared that Trump’s belligerence was “truly unacceptable.”

Pope Leo XIV criticized war and said “absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East” in a new statement Friday, as the divide between the Vatican and Washington deepens amid President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

Bishops’ conferences in the United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Italy, and Spain have urged their faithful to join Pope Leo XIV on April 11 in praying for peace.

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV go start im longest international tour eva, as im dey visit African kontris like Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Di Vatican tok say di ten-day tour go draw global attention to Africa. More dan 20 percent of world ...

Harlem Globetrotters basketball team delighted the Pope with a playful lesson in spinning a basketball on his finger, turning a lighthearted moment into a joyful exchange. A player spun the ball and placed it on Pope's finger making it a joyous moment for Pope Leo.

Pope Leo XIV on Friday appointed Father Andrea Ciucci chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The Italian priest has served as the academyʼs secretariat coordinator since 2016.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met with David Axelrod, a longtime Democratic strategist and former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama.