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In Dresden, Churches stand up to far-right

Churches stand up to far-right in Dresden: “We need peacemakers, not pyromaniacs”

Catholic Freemasons 'certainly not' excommunicated, says Austrian priest

Catholic Freemasons “certainly not” excommunicated, says Austrian member of Vatican interfaith dialogue body

Pope Francis with Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi

Francis encourages Rome, other cities to seek unity, peace through fraternity

Mass with survivors in the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Auschwitz

In Mass with survivors at Auschwitz, Polish bishop deplores “cruel martyrdom” of Holocaust victims

Pope Francis walks past a statue of Martin Luther

Lutherans and Catholics to pray together to mark anniversary of Luther’s excommunication

Auschwitz

European Bishops say ‘no’ to anti-Semitism and political manipulation of the truth 75 years after Auschwitz

The Catholic church at Birkenau

Rabbi pleads with Polish government, Pope to close Auschwitz-Birkenau church

Pope Francis January 26 during the Angelus prayer

Pope mourns “appalling tragedy” of Holocaust: “Indifference is inadmissible, remembrance a duty”

A priest holds a baby as clergy and indigenous people wait for the arrival of Pope Francis in Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios province, Peru

Optional celibacy in the Amazon: the “end” of the Church?

Russian Orthodox Church: Stalin could have made a good bishop

The 'offensive' scene in the 'New Pope' series

Venice Patriarch lashes ‘New Pope’ series for “offensive” nuns in nighties dancing under crucifix

Vatican 'Foreign Minister' Paul Richard Gallagher

Vatican ‘Foreign Minister’ asks EU for “deep, extensive and universal commitment” to migrants

The fire in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

French general supervising Notre Dame rebuild: cathedral could still “fall apart”

Auschwitz re-enactment at a Polish primary school

Priests ‘bless’ Polish primary school Auschwitz re-enactment

Pope Francis before the Shroud of Turin

“Burial cloth of Jesus” to go on rare public display in Italy in December

Scaffolding on Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame “not out of danger”, only “50% chance” it will be saved, alerts rector

New Luxembourg cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich

Luxembourg cardinal urges Church to “become a laboratory of the future”

Pedestrians at rush hour

The medieval Church ban on incest made you the individualist you are today: study

Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna

Malta archbishop reaffirms Church “solidarity” with migrants after criticism from PM over racist priest

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

EU Bishops celebrate 30 years of fall of Berlin Wall: “Constructing walls is never the solution”

The Archbishop of Malta blesses tombs in the Addolorata Cemetery

Maltese ex-minister, historian praise archbishop for “boldest step” of blessing interdicted politicians’ tombs

French priest and Holocaust investigator Patrick Desbois

French priest investigating Nazi mass killings in Europe: “Holocaust deniers are getting stronger”

Workshop in Slovakia of the European Justice and Peace Commissions

European Justice and Peace Commissions urge “solidarity” to fight poverty, exclusion, migration crises

St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague

Czech Constitutional Court cancels Church restitutions tax

Jan Hus Statue and Tyn Church, Old Town Square, Prague

The Czech Republic is one of Europe’s least religious countries. Here’s why

Lithuanian cardinal-elect Sigitas Tamkevicius

Lithuanian cardinal-elect once imprisoned by Soviets just wants to be “committed witness to the faith”

Jews in Warsaw rounded up by the Nazis in 1940

Holocaust descendant says Polish Church “stole” family land, history

Pope Francis, in a cemetery

Pope gives hope to victims of Spain’s 300,000 “stolen babies”

World War II grave in Poland

Bishops of Germany, Poland recommit to Europe on WWII anniversary

Detail of a communist era mosaic above the entrance to the National Historical Museum in Tirana, Albania

Why Albania’s communist regime couldn’t root out religion