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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

12:34 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

1:48 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

10:54 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

10:38 AM on Thursday, February 19

Why Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ endures

7:44 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

6:21 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

6:10 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

5:41 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

12:17 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

6:54 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

4:35 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

4:00 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

12:48 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

11:31 AM 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

FILE - The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is seen in Camden, N.J., April 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to $180 million settlement of clergy sexual abuse allegations

10:27 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A New Jersey Catholic diocese this week agreed to a $180 million settlement to resolve allegations of clergy sexual abuse, a figure far exceeding agreements in some large dioceses though still dwarfed by other massive settlements

FILE - The Jasna Gora Monastery, Poland's most revered Catholic shrine, is seen at sunset in Czestochowa, Poland, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Polish bishop on trial over alleged delays in reporting claims of child abuse by priests

9:54 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A Polish bishop is facing trial for allegedly not immediately reporting child sex abuse claims against two priests under his supervision

Attendees march during the annual Krewe of Bacchus parade during the Mardi Gras season on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

New Orleans closes out Mardi Gras with color and style in photos

4:59 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Palestinians sit at a long table amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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

3:20 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Zulu Tramps parade on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras, the indulgent conclusion of Carnival season

10:59 PM on Monday, February 16

As the sun rose in New Orleans, rows of parade-goers already lined the street

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

1:08 PM on Monday, February 16

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