Vaishakha Amavasya holds deep spiritual significance in Hindu tradition. Observing rituals, offering prayers to ancestors, ...

This initial act marked one of the first public displays of the Argentine cardinal's spirituality —just recently robed in ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, according to the death certificate released by the Vatican.

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

There is no reaction from Chinese government or state-run bishops' conference on passing of the pontiff so far ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

NEW YORK (AA) : An imam in the US state of New Jersey was stabbed during morning prayer. 32-year-old man who was arrested, was charged with first degree attempted murder. Sayed El-Nakib, imam of the ...

Tributes flow for late pontiff who always kept ‘the people of Hong Kong and Macau’ in his ‘thoughts and prayers’.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a ...

With the death of Pope Francis weighing heavily on the hearts of more than a billion Catholics worldwide, local parishioners ...

On a chilly, cloudy morning in Rockland County, Rev. Steven Neier led a joyful yet solemn Easter Monday Mass at St. Paul's ...