India is a country where people of many religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, and Sikhism, live together. Islam ...

A major U.S.-based initiative is providing tens of millions of dollars to Catholic parishes and organizations across the country to “restore and endow” Catholic communities around the country ...

A little over a week after returning to the Vatican guesthouse to convalesce, the pope was showing gradual improvements in ...

During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced the entire world, which stands yet again in need of his ...

New Vatican data show an increase in global Catholic population by 1.15 percent to 1.406 billion between 2022 and 2023. However, there was a decrease in the number of priests equivalent to ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered prayers to the victims of a powerful earthquake in Southeast Asia on Friday, the sixth day of his convalescence in the Vatican after a five-week hospitalization for ...

Matteo Bruni, spokesman for the Holy See Press Office, said the 88-year-old pontiff, who is still recovering from a ...

ROME – Confidential documents from forty years ago suggest that at the time of the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the so-called “Vatican girl” whose fate has become the premier ...

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, gives his homily during a Mass to pray for Pope Francis with ambassadors ...

Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo ...