Two weeks after his group seized power in Damascus, Syria's new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa has launched an intensive diplomatic ...

Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day. “A child is a gift of life,” the Holy Father told crowds of pilgrims on ...

ROME — (AP) — Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday ... the Holy See's main source of revenue — filed a class-action lawsuit in the Vatican tribunal complaining about labor ...

Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit to northern Iraq were foiled by British spies and police inside the country, Francis has revealed in his new autobiography.

Pope Francis has claimed a plot to assassinate him during a 2021 visit to Iraq involving two suicide bombers was foiled thanks to the intervention of British intelligence and Iraqi security forces.

Pope Francis became the first Catholic pontiff to visit Mosul in the war-torn country three years ago, in most likely the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy. Writing in his upcoming ...

ROME — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had ...

Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography. The pope wrote that he ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. Life inevitably has its sadnesses, which are part of every path of hope and every path toward conversion. But it is ...

Pope Francis revealed that he escaped two assassination attempts during his visit to Iraq in March 2021, including one involving a young woman who was believed to be attempting a suicide bombing.

Pope Francis is only opening one "sacred portal" on this year's Christmas Eve. The other four will be opened over the following days and weeks, up until Jan. 5, 2025. Also, the ritual of opening ...

Madonna sparks controversy online after an artist shares AI-generated images of her and Pope Francis on Instagram. The ...