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Christian missionaries find new frontier in VRChat

1:13 PM on Tuesday, July 7

For three years, Christian missionaries with the evangelical organization Cru have gathered every Friday in VRChat, a popular social platform where millions of people from around the world interact through avatars

Ismail al-Thawabta, general director of the Hamas-run government media office, speaks during a press conference at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas dissolves its government in Gaza to transfer power to a UN-backed committee

6:41 AM on Monday, July 6

Hamas says it has dissolved its government in Gaza and is preparing to transfer power to a U.N.-backed technical committee

The truck carrying the coffins of the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family makes its way through mourners during the funeral procession toward Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Mourners throng funeral procession in Tehran for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

7:57 PM on Sunday, July 5

Mourners dressed in black have flooded into Iran’s capital for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

FILE - Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP, File)

A timeline of Charlie Kirk's assassination and the arrest of Tyler Robinson

9:06 PM on Saturday, July 4

The 23-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk will be in court this week for the case's most substantial hearing so far

A little girl raises her fist from atop a man's shoulders as mourners gather during funeral ceremonies for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Khamenei's other sons appear at his funeral in Iran as new supreme leader remains in hiding

8:47 PM on Saturday, July 4

Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling confidence in their safety as Iran pushes back on U.S. demands in negotiations to permanently end the war

FILE - Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri speaks during an interview at the Zion Church in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)

Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release

7:43 PM on Saturday, July 4

A pastor of a prominent underground church detained in China in October has been released, according to rights advocates

Pope Leo XIV pays tribute at the cemetery and on little Joussef's grave, in Lampedusa, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday, July 4, 2026, during a one-day pastoral visit to an island that has become a symbol of the risks faced by migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.(Pool Photo/Ciro Fusco, Via AP)

Pope visits US ambassador on July 4 after prayers at Lampedusa cemetery for migrant victims

12:39 AM on Saturday, July 4

Pope Leo XIV is spending the Fourth of July in the epicenter of Europe’s migration debate

Mourners walk through the grounds of the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque during the funeral ceremonies for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Iran begins dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in war

8:48 PM on Friday, July 3

The funeral for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has started, months after his death in an airstrike on the first day of the war

Pope Leo XIV waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary

9:46 AM on Friday, July 3

Pope Leo XIV is praying for the United States to recommit itself to its founding ideals on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

FILE - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, then Iran's supreme leader, speaks during Friday prayers at Tehran University, July 30, 1999. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Iran with iron fist while confronting the US, will be buried

2:07 AM on Friday, July 3

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dramatically remolded Iran during more than three decades as supreme leader, turning it into a regional powerhouse and bringing it increasingly into confrontation with Israel and the United States

Prasanth Prakashan, a mechanical engineer, poses in front of a robotic elephant at his backyard workshop in Chalakudy, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Robotic elephants draw crowds and controversy in some of India's Hindu temples

10:07 PM on Thursday, July 2

In India's southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones in temple festivals

The Rev. John Ubel, pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes, processes into the sanctuary with altar servers at the start of one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell’Orto)

As Pope Leo faces traditionalists' schism, a Minnesota church merges old customs with fidelity

9:50 PM on Thursday, July 2

Priests at the Church of Saint Agnes in St. Paul, Minnesota, celebrate a traditional Latin Rite Mass every Sunday, even though the practice has become a symbol of cultural and political battles among some Catholics

Map showing where monks on pilgrimage were killed in a pickup truck crash in Mukdahan province. (AP Digital Embed)

11-year-old driver crashes truck into Buddhist monks in Thailand, killing 10

12:41 AM on Thursday, July 2

Officials in Thailand say an 11-year-old boy has crashed a pickup truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage, killing 10 of them and injuring others

Newly consecrated bishops, from left, Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier, wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Vatican excommunicates schismatic bishops and priests, and warns their followers

12:32 AM on Thursday, July 2

The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent

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