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Your simple guide to the dozens of Hispanic and Latin American holidays, weeks, and months.

The interfaith friendship has also led to coat and food drives for the surrounding community.

It will be the first affordable housing complex built in the downtown area in 20 years.

The gathering brought together women religious leaders from 18 countries.

The pope’s final donation was to support a pasta factory in a Roman juvenile prison, according to Vatican officials.

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88.

The pontiff, who died Monday at 88, was beloved by many progressive Catholics.

On the festival of Baisakhi, celebrated usually on April 13, Sikhs the world over will joyously wear yellow saffron colors, symbolizing spring harvest and the solar new year, when the Sun enters the constellation Aries.

With an abundance of vacant property and limited access to fresh produce, Mission of Mary Cooperative stepped in.

The non-denominational church is already renovating its rectory to house an estimated 30 neighbors facing homelessness.

“The resources of our church family are not ours,” Pastor David Brickey said. “Every dollar and square inch of our property are God’s.”

Pope Francis was the first person from the Americas to be elected to the papacy. He was also the first pope to choose Francis as his name, thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi.