The first American-born Pope urged the U.S. to continue "welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants." ...

Pope Leo XIV marked July 4 with an appeal to Americans to welcome and receive immigrants with “compassion and generosity” as ...

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On the morning of America’s 250th birthday, while fireworks crews were still setting up along the National Mall, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics was boarding a plane to a tiny island ...

Pope Leo XIV, the American pope, spent his second Fourth of July as the pontiff at Lampedusa, Italy, an island at the front of the migrant crisis.

Pope Leo XIV took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump while talking about his home country and immigration. In an NBC ...

Celebrating Mass on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, Pope Leo XIV urged Europe to respond to migration with long-term policies rooted in human dignity. Pope Leo XIV with a family of migrants at ...

LAMPEDUSA, Italy, July 4 (Reuters) - Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home ...

The pontiff pays tribute to migrants who lost their lives at sea at a cemetery on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

People take pictures with their mobile phones of Pope Francis as he enters the Maronite Lady of Grace cathedral in Nicosia’s walled Old City to meet with priests ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged world leaders to respond “decisively” after 700 migrants were feared drowned in the deadliest migrant shipwreck yet in the Mediterranean. “These are men and women like us, ...