The United States government announced Friday it was sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top officials for human rights violations and restricting access to visas ...

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The Religious Liberty Commission, which Trump established in a May 1 executive order, will have its first meeting on June 16.

Citing Pope Francis’s statement in 2013 that “a little mercy makes the world less cold and more just,” Biden wrote that he fears “with his (Pope Francis’s) passing, the world will be colder and less ...

Pope Francis was a pope for our time. When so many practiced the politics of dehumanization, he stood for our common humanity.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the ...

ROME — President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction to Pope Francis on Saturday, granting one of the nation’s highest honors to a figure he called “the People’s Pope.

President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff was “a light ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff ...