The Cuban government announced that it would release hundreds of political prisoners, citing inspiration from Pope Francis' ...

Taking up the spirit of the recently inaugurated Holy Year 2025, the Cuban government has announced the release of 553 people ...

NORTHERN Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan led local officials and religious leaders in welcoming the Vatican Ambassador to the ...

The Holy Father told groups of pilgrims attending his Jan. 15 general audience that they should be aware that millions of ...

The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access ...

ROME - An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that ...

Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin Monday held a meeting with papal representatives in the Middle ...

Could it possibly have been coincidence? The very day Congress certified Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president, the Vatican announced the transfer of San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy ...

Burch arrives in Rome with no diplomatic experience, a pattern typical for U.S. appointments to the Vatican. "Major countries with diplomatic ties to the Holy See usually send career diplomats ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

As the Jubilee year kicks off in Rome, more than half a million visitors have flocked to the Vatican to walk through the Holy ...