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FILE - John Prevost, brother of new Pope Leo XIV, holds a portrait of the three Prevost brothers from 1958, Pope Leo, 3, left, John, 4, and Louis, 7, at his home, May 8, 2025, in New Lenox, Ill. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy, File)

Good news: Behind the scenes of some of the most uplifting stories of 2025

8:19 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Journalists with The Associated Press have captured some of 2025's most uplifting stories amid global challenges

Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter's Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and exposed in the chapel of the Teutonic College at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone's throw from his grave at the Vatican

1:12 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope

Rohingya refugee 13-year-old Rahamot Ullah, his eye bloodied from a bamboo stick that pierced it 10 days earlier while slogging through sewage, speaks to The Associated Press inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Takeaways from the AP's report on the impact of aid cuts on Rohingya children in Bangladesh

12:31 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Hasina, a Rohingya refugee girl, sits inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts

12:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

FILE - Priest Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

4:48 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

A renowned Brazilian Catholic priest has been ordered by Sao Paulo’s archbishop to stop broadcasting his services and avoid social media

Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in 2 deaths

3:17 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010

Members of the Al-Hosari family check the rubble looking for their belongings after their house collapsed, killing, according to Al-Shafa Hospital officials, at least one person and leaving several others injured in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza families struggle to recover from days of torrential rains that killed 12 people

1:50 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to recover from torrential rains that have battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby

Muslim rights group sues Florida Gov. DeSantis over 'foreign terrorist' label

11:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the U_S_ has sued Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis over his order labeling it a “foreign terrorist organization.”

FILE - Zaheerul Hassan Shah, the deputy chief of a radical Islamist party, speaks to his supporters during a gathering in Lahore, Pakistan, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistani court sentences cleric from banned party to 35 years for inciting violence

1:45 AM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Pakistani officials say an anti-terrorism court has sentenced a senior leader of a banned Islamist party to 35 years in prison for inciting violence

Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to people gathering at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia to hold funerals for the 15 victims of an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach

10:01 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Australia is preparing for the funerals of some of the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

Tulane's 'Bayou Jew,' Jake Retzlaff, humbled by his CFP spotlight after his difficult BYU departure

7:47 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff recalls being “devastated” when it became clear last spring that he would be unable to play his final season of college football at BYU

Death toll climbs to 5 in South African temple building collapse

2:00 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The death toll from last week's building collapse at a Hindu temple site in South Africa has risen to five

US Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

1:53 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia

A 27-meter fir tree from the Ultimo valley in South Tyrol, Italy, is lit up as Christmas tree together with a crib in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican unveils Nativity scene, lights Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square

1:11 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The Vatican has unveiled its Nativity scene and lit the towering Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square

Ribbons representing lives saved from abortion according to Catholic organizations are seen on Nacimiento Gaudium, a nativity scene set in the Paul VI Hall during an audience led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope denounces 'antisemitic violence' of Sydney attack as he thanks Christmas donors

9:18 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the antisemitic violence behind the Sydney Hanukkah massacre

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