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 ...

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 said Saturday that darkness and fear must not prevail as he concluded a bleak week in Europe with a message of hope during an Easter Vigil service in St. Peter's Basilica. Francis entered ...

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 ...

“Viva il Papa!” (Long live the pope), “Bravo!” the crowd shouted as Francis looped through the square in his open-topped popemobile and then up and down the main avenue leading to it. He stopped ...

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 targeted many ...

Pope Francis appeared on Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for an Easter Sunday blessing, after a brief earlier meeting with Vice President JD Vance. Vance arrived at Casa Santa Marta in the ...

Just as quickly as news spread that Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, after a long health battle, so did the commentary around his public meeting with United States Vice President JD Vance on ...

VATICAN CITY — On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the “latest vile attack” on ...

Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap ...

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 ...