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 ...

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’.” ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A young woman who has been paraplegic since 2022 after a failed suicide attempt is due to be euthanised on Thursday in Spain ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday renewed his call for an end to violence in the Middle East, while U.S. President Donald Trump ...

The recent discovery of at least 172 bodies in mass graves near Uvira has shattered the fragile illusion of stability in the ...

Listen ROME – Aside from being the residence of tennis legend Jannik Sinner, for most observers, the visit of Pope Leo XIV, himself an avid tennis player and enthusiast, to the small city-state of ...

An argument between two men in a Christian town in central Syria led to sectarian attacks that caused widespread damage to homes, shops and cars in a reminder of religious violence that followed the ...