Pope Leo XIV has been caught in two of Spain's major culture debates during his visit to Barcelona.

Spain's lawmakers have given Pope Leo XIV a lengthy standing ovation after his historic address to parliament.

Pope Leo XIV is urging Spaniards to stop “fanning the flames of polarization” as he arrived in Spain.

Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews.

Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with singer Dara’s party anthem “Bangaranga.”.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Spain Tuesday, stopping to see Pablo Picasso's “Guernica” in Madrid.

Spain’s government researchers say they've identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War.

A general election this Sunday could make Spain the latest European Union member to swing to the right.

Initial forensic work has begun to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in the Valle de Cuelgamuros mausoleum, formerly known as the Valle de los Caídos, or Valley of the Fallen.

The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange movement, will be exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum and transferred to a city cemetery.

Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing some 30 soldiers kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco.

Pedro Almodóvar's “Parallel Mothers” stars Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit as young mothers who meet at the hospital and whose babies are accidentally switched at birth.

For decades, family members of the tens of thousands victims of Francisco Franco's brutal regime in Spain have had little help from central authorities to recover their loved ones from the country's hundreds of mass graves.

Spain’s government wants to outlaw expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Franco’s 20th-century dictatorship and ban bodies which extol that period’s policies and leaders.

The delegation members' letters also voiced support for local efforts to rename Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. Two of the letter-signers were among delegation members who asked state lawmakers in 2017 to remove the McCarran statue from the Capitol. To replace the statue in the U.S. Capitol, the state Legislature must pass a resolution identifying the statue to be replaced along with the name of a replacement, and several other requirements. Each state is invited to place two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Nevada added its second honoree in 2005 with a statue of 19th century Northern Paiute author and educator Sarah Winnemucca.

Despite the government's refusal to authorize two demonstrations, about 200 Franco supporters protested at a police blockade near the Mingorrubio cemetery before the exhumation. Franco's family and his far-right supporters have opposed the plan and the family unsuccessfully appealed the decision in the courts. Franco's family said the Spanish government had violated their "fundamental rights." Thousands of executions were carried out by his nationalist regime during the Spanish Civil War and in the following years. In 2007, the Spanish government passed the Law of Historical Memory, which formally condemns the Franco regime and bans political events at the Valley of the Fallen.

Franco was buried in a grand mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen, northwest of Madrid, soon after his death in 1975. His remains will be relocated to the Mingorrubio state cemetery in El Pardo, 12 miles north of Madrid, where his wife is buried. Thousands of executions were carried out by his nationalist regime during the Spanish Civil War and in the following years. After World War II, he was seen by many as the last surviving fascist dictator and was ostracized by the United Nations. It also recognizes the victims of the civil war and the Francoist state and pledges aid to those victims and their descendants.

(CNN) - The remains of right-wing dictator General Francisco Franco can be exhumed, Spain's Supreme court ruled Tuesday, resolving an issue that has divided opinion for decades. A long-awaited ruling gives the government a green light to remove Franco's remains from the Catholic basilica, the Valley of the Fallen, just outside Madrid. It has since become a draw for tourists and far-right sympathizers who rally at it on the anniversary of Franco's death on Nov. 20. Thousands of executions were carried out by his nationalist regime during the Spanish Civil War and in the following years. It also recognizes the victims of the civil war and the Francoist state and pledges aid to those victims and their descendants.