With Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to Spain in need of significant financing, the country’s episcopal conference is resorting to creative methods to generate income, including enticing wealthy donors ...

A night attack on a community in Nigeria ’s north-central region left at least 20 people dead, residents and authorities said.

During Palm Sunday, hundreds of pajareros from across the country flock to Mexico City and decorate 10-foot-tall stacks of cages, adorning them with bright flowers, tinsel and images of the Virgin of ...

The new Archbishop of Canterbury will meet with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican when she visits Rome, sometime between April 25 and 28. However, there are many signs that tensions between the Holy See and ...

Early Monday morning, Israel’s police said it had approved a “limited prayer framework” for the church, in consultation with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

As Christians packed churches across Lebanon this Palm Sunday to commemorate their belief in Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the renewed war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah weighed on ...

Actor Antonio Banderas joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain, a country with a fervent Catholic tradition.

On Sunday, Israeli forces prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, the official guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ...

He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” the pontiff said, “but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’.” ...

Father Adam Hincks, a Jesuit priest who teaches at the University of Toronto and serves as an adjunct scholar at the Vatican Observatory, believes that for some, contemplating dark matter and dark ...

Parolin sent the letter at Pope Leo XIV’s request and said some very important things, but coverage of the letter was mostly confined to the Catholic press, where the focus was on one issue – liturgy ...

Jerusalem’s major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week.