Al-Azhar, the world's largest Muslim Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Sunday the terrorist attack that killed a ...

From the Cardinals assembled in conclave after Benedict XVI’s resignation, he was elected Pope on 13 March 2013 and took the ...

Iranian authorities have arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state TV reported ...

In Egypt, regional churches and other denominations have offered their condolences to the Vatican following the death of Pope ...

Pope Francis was praised by several regional leaders and churches, including Lebanon's Maronite Church and Iraqi officials, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with Muslims and ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he spoke as pope. Some ...

Christmas and the onset of Hannukah fell on the same day of Dec. 25. The collision of calendars of the two distinct religions ...

The number of rape and incest cases in Kelantan rose by 22.3 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year. This includes a case where an 11-year-old boy had impregnated his 15-year-old cousin ...

The Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday, marks the last week of Lent, during which Roman Catholics fast, pray and give alms to the poor. Roman Catholics make up about 80 ...

At each holiday, before we eat we say a Catholic mealtime prayer because we are religious. Dear Abby: Is it wrong of me to be stashing away money so I can leave? Dear Abby: Do I have to change my ...