Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

By Małgorzata Wojtunik, Chiara Rodriquez and Fabiano Franchitti VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Diane Karla Abano, a Filipino ...

Maria Abi-Habib was a roving Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focused on terrorism issues and jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. She had been based in Beirut and ...

In a small church tucked into a side street in northern China's Hebei province, a group of around 10 people gathered for ...

“Anyone can join this Way of Cross, regardless of their beliefs ... The curious “would first have to climb the metre-high church walls of rituals and linguistic codes that churches have ...

Several dozen young people preparing for sacraments from Holy Family Church ... A huge wooden cross is carried on April 5 through the street that runs parallel to the border wall in Nogales ...

But, for the congregation that's served the San Gabriel Valley for over 100 years, what took place within those walls hasn't stopped ... the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena.

Others are finding different ways to take part — from praying outside church walls to refusing to donate money or simply stepping back from unpaid duties. "In addition to the strictly male ...

John the Baptist Catholic Church. The mournful wailing of women intensifies as a beleaguered man, nailed to a wooden cross, looks down and utters: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ... in the old rite emphasized Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, those in the new rite highlighted the shared ...

“We did have the need, so we came to fulfill the need,” said Jennifer Barnett, the executive director for the Western Kentucky chapter of the Red Cross. In response to the devastation, Calhoun Baptist ...