The bare cell, no more than two metres across, had no bed or toilet. Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only ...

The symbolic act of opening Holy Doors for the Church’s Jubilee Year was drastically misrepresented by some online.

The Jubilee begins, the Pope opens the Holy Door asking for forms of clemency, such as amnesty and pardon, but the Meloni ...

Feast of the Holy Family, Francis pointed to the nucleus of Nazareth as a 'model'. After Jesus' return to the Temple, Mary ...

Pope Francis opens Holy Door in Rome’s Rebibbia prison Pope Francis goes to Rome's Rebibbia prison to open a Holy Door, one ...

Seated in his wheelchair in front of the church door, Pope Francis prayed: "In the joy of Christmas, let us welcome the call ...

As the Pope left the Rebibbia prison, he stopped to greet the 300 inmates and staff who had waited outside of the crowded ...

Today, the Feast of St Stephen, Pope Francis visited a prison, a “cathedral of pain”, home for 285 inmates. He led Holy Mass ...

Pope Francis has long made prison ministry an important part of his priestly vocation and has visited Rebibbia often since ...

It is the first time such a door had been opened by a pope at a prison since the start of the Jubilee year tradition by Pope ...

AN ANIME-STYLE character called Luce is the mascot of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year, which will officially begin tomorrow evening. Luce — which means “light” in Italian and Latin — is intended to ...