champions anti-communism and the unification of the Korean Peninsula, which has been split between the totalitarian North and democratic South. The church is perhaps best known for mass weddings ...

A 46-year-old person who stole cash from a church offering box on Jeju Island on Christmas Day has been sentenced to prison ...

Political fund reports also showed Hagiuda’s fund management organization paid 15,000 yen ($112) to the Women’s Federation for World Peace, an organization linked with the Unification Church ...

Then, he will be formally installed as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church at a mass on May 18 and preside over his first general audience on May 21.

In 2023-2024, the target was 2,734 marriages, with 1,898 couples benefiting. The scheme has shown significant progress since 2022-23, when 2,406 girls were married out of a target of 2,734.The ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel ... dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world's "dark nights." ...

U.S. cardinals had largely been written off as papal contenders because of a widespread assumption that the global Church could not be run by a superpower pope. Pope Leo XIV conducts Mass in the ...

4:13 Pope Leo XIV delivers 1st mass in Sistine Chapel ... warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world’s “dark nights.” ...

Pope Leo has said he hopes his papacy can help the Catholic Church be a beacon illuminating the "the dark nights of this world" - as he led his first mass since being elected pontiff. Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called in his first Mass at the Vatican for the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of faith. Speaking the day after he was elected as the 267th Pope and ...