LYON, France -- A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, ...

The founder of the Emmaues association, the French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre appears on the TV programm "La Marche du Siecle" in Paris in 1988. The Catholic Church in France has called on ...

Five people in all had been taken hostage. A police source said it appeared that the priest had had his throat slit. An priest in his mid-80s was killed with a knife and another hostage seriously ...