- About 1.2 million people packed Madrid’s Cibeles Square for Pope Leo’s outdoor Mass, waving flags, shouting greetings and tossing petals in a festive atmosphere.
- The pope urged Catholics to help the poor and forsaken, saying God “identifies with” migrants and the marginalized and calling for a more inclusive, humane society.
- His week-long Spain visit — including meetings with migrants, a youth vigil of roughly 600,000 and stops in Barcelona and the Canary Islands — is his first trip to an EU country outside Italy.
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- Pope Leo XIV visits Spain June 6–12 (first papal trip in 15 years) and will even address the Spanish parliament, pressing for unity amid political polarization.
- He’ll inaugurate the central spire of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona and mark the centenary of the architect’s death — a major moment for art and architecture.
- The visit coincides with Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny’s huge Madrid concerts, an amusing pop-culture contrast in the city.
- Southern Baptists are again debating a proposed constitutional ban on women serving in any pastoral role (not just senior pastor), a fight that’s drawn figures like Albert Mohler and pushback from critics such as Beth Moore.
- The denomination remains a political bellwether for white conservative evangelicals and continues to show strong support for Donald Trump, even as leaders parse specific policy and moral disagreements.
- The SBC is shrinking (membership at its lowest since 1973) despite a rise in baptisms, and delegates will also weigh resolutions on humane immigration language and condemning antisemitic violence.
- Southampton's Sikh leaders urged peace and stood with Henry Nowak's family after violent protests, condemning both the murder and street violence.
- Clashes near the killer's home left several officers injured and fuelled scrutiny over why Nowak was wrongly arrested as he lay dying.
- Community figures warned against blaming Sikhs or banning the kirpan, calling for calm, solidarity and protection of religious freedom.
- A 35-year-old cold case ended when a 62-year-old man walked into a Georgia police station and confessed to the 1989 home invasion killing of Mauricio Cuadra in New Jersey.
- He says his pastor and renewed Christian faith pushed him to come forward; investigators described him as calm and remorseful.
- Authorities verified his confession with a DNA match and arrested him in Georgia; he’s awaiting transfer to New Jersey on murder charges.
- The 90-year-old Dalai Lama is traveling to New Delhi this month for medical treatment on his left knee; he’d had surgery on the same knee in New York in 2024.
- He’s based in Dharamshala, uses a golf cart for longer distances, and is expected to spend an extended period in India’s Ladakh region later in June.
- Known for his dry humor, he recently said he hopes to live past 130 and has reassured followers he will be reincarnated after his death.
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