Although he is the first American pope and President Donald Trump was quick to express enthusiasm over his election, many expect Cardinal Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—to prove a thorn in the side of the U.S. administration.

On May 8, the Vatican announced the election of 69-year-old American Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new Pope of the Catholic Church.

With the announcement of Pope Francis's death at 88, Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako (76) emerged as a potential successor, gaining official endorsement from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani for the papacy.

Christian families in Gaza today are enduring exceptional hardship, not unlike their Muslim neighbors, as they face relentless bombardment, death, and destruction by Israeli Occupation Forces.

After a wave of scandals involving European and American church priests, which led to the resignation of many of them, the abuse of children and young girls by church priests brought down the head of the world’s largest Anglican church in Britain.