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Pope Leo XIV holds the homily as he presides over a Prayer Vigil for Peace in the world at St. Peter's Basilica on April 11, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican
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Pope Leo's cancer operation already reshaping papacy

"Illness acts as a crossroads in a pontificate—it either accelerates its momentum or diminishes its power," Vatican watcher Giacomo Galeazzi wrote.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 October, 2026
Pope Leo moved against SSPX after it went ahead with the unauthorised consecration of bishops
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Pope Leo spent 'a tranquil night' after cancer surgery: Vatican

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 October, 2026
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Father Louis Salman's expulsion threatens Palestinian Christians

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Xavier Abu Eid

07 July, 2026
Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful as he appears at the central loggia of St. Peters Basilica to deliver the Christmas Urbi et Orbi message at the Vatican, on December 25, 2025. (Photo by Isabella Bonotto/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Algeria preps for Pope Leo XIV upcoming April visit

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11 March, 2026
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Pope Leo says won't be 'bystander' to human rights abuses

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 December, 2025
Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius (C), the Bishop of Stockholm, speaks to the press as he sits in front of the "Vehicle of Hope", the popemobile used by pope Francis during his 2014 visit to Bethlehem, which has been repurposed by the Catholic humanitarian organisation Caritas into a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in the Gaza Strip, in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 25, 2025.
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Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children's clinic

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 November, 2025
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on June 30, 2025.
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Top Vatican diplomat condemns Gaza 'carnage'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 October, 2025
Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog
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Pope Leo raises 'tragic situation in Gaza' in Herzog meeting

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 September, 2025
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Trump, Zelenskyy head to Rome for Pope Francis' funeral

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 April, 2025
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Pope Francis' legacy of inter-faith diplomacy

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Eldar Mamedov

23 April, 2025
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Health condition prompts Pope Francis to cancel COP28 trip

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 November, 2023
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Pope to meet refugees in Orban's Hungary

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 April, 2023
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Pope Francis leaves hospital, quips 'I am still alive'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 April, 2023
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Former pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95: Vatican

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
31 December, 2022
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Pope Francis to visit DR Congo and South Sudan in July

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 March, 2022
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Pope could visit Lebanon this year: Vatican official

The New Arab Staff
10 February, 2022
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Pope voices 'solidarity with people of Myanmar'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 February, 2021