As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime ...

Pope Francis argued that the solution lay with solving the problems in their countries of origin, and urged compassion for ...

Diane Karla Abano, a Filipino migrant living in Rome, has vivid memories of the day that Pope Francis touched her heart and ...

Amid a roiling Middle East, the Trump administration is trying to figure out how Syria’s new leader fits into an “America First” foreign policy.

Ukraine and Russia yesterday accused each other of violating an Easter truce declared by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

The first ever cardinal of Roman Catholic-majority East Timor had barely had time to process the news of Pope Francis' death ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Syria's Christians are a minority in flux ... The latter has connections to the Vatican in Rome. However there is also a smaller Protestant church, whose members numbered around 300,000 before ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Pope Francis, who is still recovering from treatment for bilateral pneumonia, greeted crowds gathered in a tulip-filled St ...