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Sara Cainarca, a volunteer with the “La Via della Bellezza,” or “The Path of Beauty,” initiative, gestures toward a fresco in the church of San Giorgio al Palazzo, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/María Teresa Hernández)

Olympics visitors are invited beyond the Duomo to Milan's other stunning churches

10:33 AM on Friday, February 20

With the Winter Olympics drawing visitors to Milan, volunteers organized by the archdiocese’s youth ministry office are offering free visits to some of the city’s lesser-known churches

Buddhist monks gather to stage a protest demanding more respect from the government, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Venura C. Rathnayake)

Buddhist monks rally in Sri Lanka to pressure the government for a wider role in affairs of state

8:26 AM on Friday, February 20

Hundreds of Buddhist monks have rallied in the capital of Sri Lanka to protest alleged government disrespect of their religion and disregard for a long-standing tradition that they be consulted in matters of state

A crane lifts the upper arm of the cross onto the Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, reaching the basilica's maximum height of 172.5 meters (566 feet). (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia reaches its maximum height after more than a century

7:55 AM on Friday, February 20

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church has reached its maximum height with the placement of a cross on its central Tower of Jesus Christ

Israeli soldiers stand guard as Palestinian worshippers line up to pass through the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on their way to attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ramadan's first Friday prayers are held at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque

7:01 AM on Friday, February 20

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered under heavy Israeli restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including some who were allowed to enter from the occupied West Bank

The spot in a cemetery in Lusaka, Zambia, where authorities want to bury former President Edgar Lungu who died more than eight months ago in South Africa, is photographed Thursday, Feb.12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodney Muhumuza)

A macabre dispute has kept the body of Zambia's former president unburied for months

1:34 AM on Friday, February 20

A bitter feud in Zambia has left former President Edgar Lungu’s body unburied in a South African funeral home for more than eight months

Faithful attend Ash Wednesday Mass marking the start of the Catholic Lent inside the Mother Teresa Cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Laura Hasani)

Kosovo's Catholics and Muslims mark Ash Wednesday and Ramadan in one week

2:48 PM on Thursday, February 19

Kosovo’s religious diversity came to light this week as the Balkan nation’s Christian and Muslim communities both embarked on a traditional period of fasting and spiritual reflection

Pope Leo XIV presides over Ash Wednesday Mass, marking the start of the Catholic Lent, inside the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Breakaway Catholic group rejects Vatican talks, indicating collision course for pope

11:54 AM on Thursday, February 19

A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group has rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks

AI is Becoming a Spiritual Authority in Americans’ Lives, New Research Reveals

11:38 AM on Thursday, February 19

Why Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ endures

8:44 AM on Thursday, February 19

Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his open-air weekly general audience, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope's grand tour of Italy over the next few months takes him to Lampedusa on July 4

7:21 AM on Thursday, February 19

The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo XIV will travel up and down the Italian peninsula over the next few months

FILE - A man at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in downtown Pittsburgh enters a confessional after a noon-time mass Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1999. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card

7:10 AM on Thursday, February 19

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional

Mourners give condolences to Mohammad Abu Siyam, the father of Palestinian-American Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, who according to the Palestinian Health Ministry was shot by settlers on Wednesday night, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, east of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say

6:41 AM on Thursday, February 19

The Palestinian Health Ministry and a witness say that Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American in an attack on a village

A general view of the Degemar Quarry near Tivoli, Italy, 35 kilometers east of Rome, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, where 17th-century Baroque architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini selected travertine for the colonnade of St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The travertine quarries that built ancient Rome are carving rock for a new generation of temples

1:17 AM on Thursday, February 19

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today, providing the distinctive pock-marked rock to build a new generation of churches, temples and mosques worldwide

A parishioner receives ashes on Ash Wednesday in Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Christians mark Ash Wednesday, beginning the Lenten Season in photos

7:54 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Displaced members of the Al-Zamli family break their fast on the first day of Ramadan inside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

How one displaced family in Gaza is observing Ramadan's first day under a fragile ceasefire deal

5:35 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Ramadan has begun in Gaza under a fragile ceasefire deal, but many say the joyous spirit of the month has disappeared

A woman brushes gold calligraphy onto red paper used for Lunar New Year couplets in Hong Kong, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/May James)

Photos follow the color red through public and intimate spaces during the Lunar New Year

5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Pope Leo XIV, left, arrives, with bishops and cardinals in a penitential procession marking the start of the Catholic Lent, at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, where he will preside over Ash Wednesday Mass. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope laments 'ashes of international law' left by today's conflicts in Ash Wednesday liturgy

1:48 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday

FILE - A cross is silhouetted against a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans on Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

A look at the largest clergy abuse settlements reached by Catholic organizations in the US

12:31 PM on Wednesday, February 18

A New Jersey Catholic diocese outside Philadelphia has agreed to pay $180 million in a clergy sexual abuse settlement, the latest in a church scandal set off more than two decades ago

Muslims attend Friday prayers during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the historic Wazir Khan mosque, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Ramadan ushers in a month of fasting, worship and charity for Muslims, in photos

4:20 PM on Tuesday, February 17

People perform a lion dance as fireworks explode during Lunar New Year celebrations in Panama City, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Photos of Lunar New Year celebrations for the Year of the Horse

2:08 PM on Monday, February 16

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