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“The meeting between Pentagon and Vatican officials was a respectful and reasonable discussion,” said a Defense Department official’s statement.

A spokesperson for the Pentagon confirmed a meeting took place, but denied the report’s description of that meeting in written comments to OSV News. Several hours later, the U.S. Embassy …

Before the deadline he set, Trump said he would suspend the attacks for two weeks if Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil trade route.

The event featured readings from the Book of Genesis and the Quran about Abraham and Sarah welcoming three strangers and offering them a meal in their tent.

The U.S. bishops’ president said that President Donald Trump threatening Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” without a deal was morally unjustifiable.

“Let us allow ourselves to be transformed by the peace of Christ! Let us make heard the cry for peace that springs from our hearts!” the pope said.

President Donald Trump said April 2 he removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her role, the second Cabinet member he has fired within a month. 

President Donald Trump gave a prime time address to the nation justifying the ongoing Iran war, a day after Pope Leo XIV called for him to seek an off-ramp.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 1 on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, with the president in attendance.

On Jan. 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order seeking to change the longstanding legal interpretation of the 14th Amendment.