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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis warns of ‘scourge of antisemitism’ ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
 
Photos of people who disappeared during Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000) lie on display at the House of Memory museum in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on the thousands disappeared in Colombia, Peru and Paraguay

 
Rogelio Goiburu, a member of Paraguay's Truth and Justice Commission, looks at skeletal remains found buried as they are excavated at the National Police Special Forces headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay, March 19, 2013. Goiburu's father, an opponent of the Stroessner dictatorship, went missing in 1977. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Paraguay’s disappeared: A dictator’s shadow is a roadblock for justice, but a few keep up the fight

 
Doris Tejada touches the tattoo of her missing son Oscar Morales as she gives an interview in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Tejada said her son disappeared in 2007 near the Venezuelan border and became a "false positive," a civilian intentionally registered as a rebel and slain by the military. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia’s disappeared: As a coalition, former enemies now search for loved ones and dream of peace

 
Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores' husband was killed in Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)

Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps

 
Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Vatican says sanctions still in effect against Opus Dei cardinal following sex abuse allegations

 
A man walks past the ''Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AP Photos: Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation

 
Palestinian prisoners are greeted by a crowd after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement with Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?

 
Demonstrators protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Here’s what happens next during the ceasefire in Gaza

 
Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Opus Dei cardinal acknowledges Vatican sanctioned him after abuse allegation but denies wrongdoing

 
Shiite pilgrims pray at the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during their annual pilgrimage in the northwestern Baghdad district of al-Kadhimiyah, Iraq, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photto/Anmar Khalil)

Shiite pilgrims make annual pilgrimage in Iraq amid regional upheaval

 
Outside view of the Great Synagogue of Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Police kill a man who set himself on fire outside a Tunisian synagogue

 
Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter celebrations at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral in the capital Tirana, on May 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church in Albania, dies at 95

 
Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor is interviewed in London, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

 
Israeli female soldier hostages wave and react at a Palestinian crowd before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)

Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds

 
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma

 

Four female Israeli soldiers are next Gaza hostages being released this weekend, says group representing their families

 
Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

What to know about Mariann Budde, the bishop who upset Trump with her inaugural sermon

 
Lebanese village of Meiss El-Jabal is seen from across the border in north Israel, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu suggests Israel might not complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by a ceasefire deadline

 
A woman looks at a display of empty chairs representing hostages held by the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Desperate families await return of 4 female soldiers held by Hamas for 15 months

 
Aline Minani holds a photo of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese man killed for fighting corruption in 2007, and whose beatification was approved by Pope Francis, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Killed for fighting corruption, a Congolese man made a martyr is inspiring a new generation

 
Dania Hanatsheh, right, a former Palestinian prisoner who was released from an Israeli prison as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, poses for a photo at a reception for released prisoners, West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Freedom is bittersweet for Palestinians released from Israeli jails

 
Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst pauses during an interview at home in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

 
A banner announcing Dad's Place is displayed on the church's back entrance, in Bryan, Ohio, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos, File)

Ohio pastor convicted in dispute over sheltering homeless vows to continue his mission

 
People participating in the March for Life walk past the Supreme Court, Jan. 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement’s gains

 
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms is back in court

 
Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera left, poses with his wife Clara Rivera after signing the backer board where his plaque will hang while visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Feb.1, 2019, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Rivera will be inducted on July 21. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Lawsuit says ex-Yankee Mariano Rivera failed to protect a girl from sexual abuse at a church camp

 
The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson looks at a map of Oregon hanging above a bed at the Augustana Lutheran Church during a tour of the church on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Trump won’t ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resist

 
A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

How the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal will unfold — and why it is so precarious

 
President Donald Trump, left, watches as Rev. Mariann Budde, second right, arrives at the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Episcopal bishop says she’ll continue to pray for Trump, who lashed out at her over viral sermon

 
President Donald Trump, left, watches as Rev. Mariann Budde, second right, arrives at the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Right Rev. Mariann Budde

 
A man waves a Palestinian flag as he returns home to Rafah, after a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)

To secure Gaza ceasefire, dealmakers overcame enemies’ deep distrust

 
Israeli army vehicles are seen during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Why is Israel launching a crackdown in the West Bank after the Gaza ceasefire?

 
Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

‘My heart is with LA': Pope prays for people of Los Angeles as they endure wildfires

 
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to media in Sydney, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image via AP)

Police investigate whether foreign actors are paying for antisemitic crimes in Australia