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US get World Cup prayer as Pope Leo roots for the home team

Pope Leo calls for end to polarisation on Spain visit

Pope Leo's visit to Spain is expected to focus on the divisive issue of immigration.

Pope Leo heads to Spain with migrants and polarisation in focus

VATICAN CITY, June 6 - Pope Leo leaves on Saturday for a week-long visit to Spain, his first to an EU country outside Italy, where he will inaugurate a new tower in Barcelona's famed Sagrada Familia basilica and meet migrants who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to reach Europe.

Pope Leo to meet Catholic abuse survivors on Spain trip, Vatican says

VATICAN CITY, June 5 - Pope Leo will meet with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said on Friday.

Pope Leo heads to Spain to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with migrants

He will be the first pope to address the Spanish Parliament.

Pope Leo names EWTN executive as first woman to lead Vatican communications

VATICAN CITY, June 2 - Pope Leo named an executive with U.S. Catholic media conglomerate EWTN as the new head of the Vatican's communications department on Tuesday, in the first appointment of a woman to the senior Church role.

Philippines defence chief backs US calls for higher military spending, says allies must pull their weight

Speaking to CNA's Leong Wai Kit on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr also defended recent military exercises with allies, and blames China's "expansionism" for tensions in the South China Sea.

Spurning just war, Pope Leo ends Catholic 'permission slip' for conflicts

VATICAN CITY, May 28 - Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could have long-reaching impact for global powers.

US V-P Vance hails Pope Leo’s AI encyclical as ‘profound’

Mr Vance called it a necessary act of moral leadership in a disruptive AI age.

Main takeaways from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI

AI is not human, however closely it comes to approximating the human mind, Pope Leo emphasised.

With AI manifesto, Leo joins pantheon of popes who urged world to change

VATICAN CITY, May 25 - Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world's 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two- or three-word titles.

Pope Leo urges world to ‘slow down’ on AI in fervent first manifesto

He cites “new forms of slavery”, as he seeks to “disarm” AI and make it “human friendly”.

Quotes from Pope Leo's document warning world of AI risks

Quotes from Pope Leo's document warning world of AI risks

Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

Popes having their say on turning points in history

Pope Leo on May 25 will have his say on the ethical questions raised by AI.

Pope Leo decries ‘dizzying’ profits earned by companies that pollute

The Pope said unscrupulous people and organisations have been allowed to act with impunity for too long.