Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene of an icon of infant ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his visit to Lebanon urging citizens not to be discouraged by the troubles they face, but to put ...

On his second day in Lebanon, Pope Leo hailed the country as an example of tolerance and urged Christian and interfaith ...

Pope Leo closed his second day in Lebanon telling young people not to be discouraged by the challenges they face due to ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed Monday at the tomb of a Lebanese saint revered among Christians and Muslims as he opened his first full ...

On his first day in Lebanon, Pope Leo urged the country’s pastors and religious to continue striving for unity and to embrace a spirit of solidarity with those who are suffering, regardless of their ...

Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of Christians have left parts of the Middle East for good, driven by wars ...

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million ...

Leo XIV invited everyone present at the ecumenical gathering “to journey together on the spiritual journey leading to the ...

Speaking to national civil authorities and members of the diplomatic corps in Beirut Nov. 30, the pope said peace in Lebanon ...

In 325, when the First Council of Nicaea took place, Christianity had only been legal for a dozen years. It was already “big” ...

The pope said he and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza during their ...