The core of the idea is that a “healthy” secularism is one in which church and state are separate, but in which religious institutions and believers are encouraged to play important roles in public ...

Marziyeh Amirizadeh, sentenced to death by hanging in Iran’s Evin Prison, says the intervention of Benedict XVI in 2009 saved her and another woman from prison and death. Amirizadeh, who now lives in ...

During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his ...

COMMENTARY: The challenge of using such a framework is that many audiences take Brother Sun and Mother Earth and leave aside ...

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon next month on the first foreign trip of ...

His predecessor, Pope Francis, had planned the pilgrimage to the two majority-Muslim countries before he died.

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon in late November, the Vatican announced Tuesday. The pontiff's trip will be Nov.

The choice signals that Pope Leo XIV aims to press for peace in the Middle East and show support for Christians in the region ...

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon in the first apostolic journey of his pontificate, to take place from Nov. 27 to ...

The last papal visit to Lebanon was made by Pope Benedict XVI from Sept. 14–16, 2012, more than one year after the outbreak ...