50 years after Franco’s death, giving a voice to Spanish dictator’s imprisoned mothers

In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death on Nov. 20, 2025, the left-leaning Spanish government led a ...

It Is Time to Bury Franco’s Ghost

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...
Malay Mail

Franco at 50: Spain reflects on repression, stolen babies and 20th-century civil war

One of Europe’s longest dictatorships will be thrust to the forefront of public debate in Spain on Thursday as the country ...
Yahoo

Spanish court halts exhumations of Civil War dead from Francoist mausoleum

Exhumation of victims of the Spanish Civil War at the 'Valley of the Fallen', near Madrid MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's High Court on Monday ordered a temporary stop to exhumations of Spanish Civil War ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Leo XIV Declares 174 New Martyrs From Nazi Camps and Spanish Civil War

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Francis Calls for Applause for 20 Martyrs of Spanish Civil War Beatified in Seville

At Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Francis honored the priests, seminarian and laypeople who were murdered out of hatred for the faith. l to R: Pope Francis at the Sunday, Nov. 19, Angelus; martyrs beatified ...

Spain exhumes victim of Franco-era killings in ongoing recovery effort

Jose Luis Cubo watched as forensic scientists dug up the body of a man his grandfather had helped to bury at the start of the ...