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At TPUSA’s women’s summit, Christian influencers say feminism threatens motherhood

Kathryn Post

Opinion

Why evangelicals should oppose the new farm bill’s Save Our Bacon Act

Karen Swallow Prior

Pope Leo tells youth in Madrid to be ‘sparks of a new humanity’

Claire Giangravè

Pope Leo uses Spain visit to press Europe on abortion, migration and peace

Francina Armengol, president of the Congress of Deputies of Spain, looks on as Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Monday, June 8, 2026. (Yara Nardi/Pool Photo via AP)

Claire Giangravè

MADRID (RNS) — In a historic address to Spain’s Parliament, Pope Leo XIV offered one of the clearest expressions yet of his effort to frame abortion, migration and peace as interconnected questions of human dignity.

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Pope Leo tells secular Spain not to leave Catholic faith in the ‘museum of the past’

Claire Giangravè

In Spain, Pope Leo XIV urges Europe to overcome polarization

Claire Giangravè

Pope Leo makes clear Iran is not a ‘just war,’ as he travels to Madrid for week in Spain

Claire Giangravè

Opinion

Anti-Zionism and antizionism: it’s all about the hyphen

Jeffrey Salkin

Opinion

The status quo at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque is deteriorating

Daoud Kuttab

Bridget Retzloff and Stephanie Shreffler

Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s

(The Conversation) — Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.

Jeffrey Salkin

Europe’s stained glass is stained with antisemitism

(RNS) — You think that the Middle Ages are history? Not so fast. The same libels against Jews remain with us today.

Mark Silk

Pope Leo begins to update ‘just war’ theory

(RNS) — In line with long-standing papal concerns.

ICE protesters who interrupted Minnesota church service won’t face state charges, prosecutor says

Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — At least four states — Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas — adopted laws this year making it a crime to disrupt worship services.

Dutch court allows rapper Ye concerts in the Netherlands

Molly Quell

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Ye has drawn widespread controversy in recent years for a series of antisemitic remarks, leaving Dutch authorities under mounting pressure to cancel the gigs on June 6 and 8.

Powerful Iran-backed militias in Iraq say they will start handing in weapons to authorities

Stella Martany

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The war in the Middle East, which the United States and Israel launched on Feb. 28 with strikes on Iran, has exposed the fragility of Iraq’s state institutions and their limited ability to restrain Iran-backed groups.

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