April 2 is when some of the most important events in the world took place. Firstly, Pope John Paul II passed away at the age of 84. His funeral attracted close to four million people to Vatican City ...

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. (photo: Gregorini Demetrio ...

as well as the pope’s predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II. This portrait, an official memento of the pope’s quietly emotional tour of the United States in 2015, will also join the long ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis’ convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in ...

A picture shows a portrait of Pope Francis drew by school children at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on March 13, ...