The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice and allow sermons by women or other laypeople.
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A century after its birth as a radical centre of modernist design, Germany’s historic Bauhaus school has become a symbol of a brewing culture war ahead of a state election that could see the far-right AfD party win power for the first time.
World leaders are “feeding” wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo said on Monday, telling the U.N. food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed.
Guillemot, 69, died in a plane crash in La Baule on France’s Atlantic coast that was scheduled to host an air show this weekend.
President Karol Nawrocki earlier stripped Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Poland’s top honor over a historical dispute over World War Two.
One person has died after two cargo trains collided on a bridge in Munich in the early hours of Saturday, causing two of the carriages to derail and crash onto the street below, according to local police.
Diplomatic niceties broke down at the United Nations on Friday when Israel’s ambassador and the U.N. secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict became embroiled in a furious shouting match at a public hearing.
When Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as U.S. president in 2025, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the only European leader invited to attend, promising the start of a golden age in relations between Washington and Rome.
A diplomatic overture to the Kremlin by European Council President Antonio Costa has exposed divisions at a summit of EU leaders over how to handle relations with Russia even as the war in Ukraine shows no signs of ending soon.
Daniel Northover left his home in Liverpool this month, which marks the 10th anniversary of Britain’s Brexit referendum, to move in with his 80-year-old mother in Turre, a town of 4,500 people in Andalusia in southern Spain.