VATICAN CITY -- Celebrating Easter Sunday, Christianity's most joyous and hopeful day, Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine and Syria and for an end to the terrorist attacks in Nigeria that have ...

Pope Francis blessed a crowd awaiting his arrival in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, after meeting with Vice President JD Vance and the Vatican's celebration of Easter Mass. The 88-year-old pope ...

Thousands turn out to hear annual message. — -- On a rainy afternoon in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis urged the world to pray for peace and for Christians to be more humble in his annual ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis tempered his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope with a denunciation of “blind” terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa and elsewhere, as well as ...

Pope Francis at the main balcony of St Peter's basilica during the Urbi et Orbi message and blessing to the city and the world as part of Easter celebrations, in The Vatican.[AFP] Pope Francis called ...

Francis, who is recovering from a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, received Vance in one of the reception rooms of the Vatican hotel where he lives. The 88-year-old pope offered the Catholic vice ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...