Pope Leo XIV

A diverse group of 50 students from Israel and the US gathered in Rome for 4 days, meeting with Pope Leo XIV to strengthen interfaith understanding and reconciliation through dialogue.

In Aurora province on Luzon island, where the storm arrived, lights went out but phone lines remained working, a civil defense official, Cheng Quizon, told DZBB radio.

Pope Leo, originally from Chicago, told reporters that he was concerned about the way immigrants detained in Chicago were being denied holy communion.

The Vatican's top doctrinal office instructed 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide not to refer to Mary as the "co-reedemer" of the world, arguing that Jesus alone was the savior.

The Pope reaffirmed the Catholic Church's stance against antisemitism during his speech at the ceremony commemorating 60 years of the Church's declaration of relations with non-Christian religions.

In front of an estimated 70,000 people, Leo canonized Bartolo Longo, who had once been an occultist priest but later denounced Satan and embraced Christianity.

The unidentified man was arrested by two officials and was filmed exposing his behind while bending to pull up his trousers.

Leo had been expected for months to travel to Turkey for his first trip abroad, but the additional visit to Lebanon only emerged in discussions in recent weeks.

Pope Leo praised Trump’s Gaza plan, urging Hamas to endorse it, while warning against violence as a Gaza aid flotilla nears Israel.

"I express my deep closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza," Pope Leo said.