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8:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America

7:03 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV is planning to travel to Spain this year

6:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

4:31 AM on Friday, January 9

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland

2:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire

11:18 PM on Thursday, January 8

A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics is joining an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in the Philippine capital, with some using the gathering to express outrage over a corruption scandal involving influential legislators

7:47 PM on Thursday, January 8

A Brazilian court has sentenced former priest Bernardino Batista dos Santos to 24 years and nine months in prison for the rape of an underage person, a document obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday showed

3:37 PM on Thursday, January 8

Pope Leo XIV says he intends to bring the world’s Catholic cardinals together on an annual basis

1:40 PM on Thursday, January 8

Investigators say a shooting outside a church in Salt Lake City that killed two people and injured six others grew out of a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral

12:59 PM on Thursday, January 8

Israeli prime minister says former U.N. envoy Nickolay Mladenov to serve as director of Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

12:04 PM on Thursday, January 8

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9:39 AM on Thursday, January 8

At The Church of the Epiphany in New York’s Upper East Side, a new, handcrafted organ is emblematic of the final phase of a multi-year, $70 million effort to relocate and rebuild the Episcopal congregation, an investment in community as much as sound

7:17 AM on Thursday, January 8

Spain’s Catholic bishops have agreed to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted

6:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza

1:37 AM on Thursday, January 8

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into antisemitism, weeks after a deadly attack at a Jewish holiday event in Bondi Beach

11:19 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Police say a shooting outside a church building in Salt Lake City has killed two people and injured six others