Closure of “one of the most beautiful churches in Niagara County” will begin in mid-2025 after the Catholic Diocese of ...

At the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad reconciliation “even (with) our ...

Over 35 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome in 2025 seeking forgiveness of sins and a chance to see the pope.

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to ongoing war in ...

The leader of Ukrainian Catholics in America commemorated the founding of the denomination’s first parish in the United States during an anniversary service Sunday in St. Michael the Archangel ...

Lebanon's leader on Monday toured parts of his country amid large Israeli gains of Hezbollah weapons. Prime Minister Najib ...

The Irish tradition has long been that on Nollaig na mBan, this final day of the busy Christmas season, women get to put ...

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, have been canceled again this year due to war in Gaza.

Remains of cells once inhabited by the Ukrainian saint, Paisius Velichkovsky, have been discovered on Mount Athos.

Part of a Crusader castle crumbled. An 18th century minaret felled. Church mosaics burned. Archaeologists are assessing ...

Kyiv mayor Vitality Klitschko says at least one person was killed and 12 more wounded in the Russian missile strikes ...