Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim southern Russian republic of Chechnya has maintained a high degree of autonomy while remaining loyal to the Kremlin and Russian ...

Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart is among some 6,000 initial signatories of the “Australian Creed for Sexual Integrity,” ...

In the official White House Presidential Message on Holy Week, dated April 13, Trump recounts the events of Palm Sunday to ...

“What’s good for the Holy Spirit works for me,” she said ... The 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary was elected 267th pope ...

The Secretary General of the United Nations joins Pope Francis' call for a “4-day Holy Week humanitarian pause” in the Ukraine war, on the occasion of the current Orthodox Holy Week leading up to ...

A video showing a Holy Week procession at the Santa Maria de Gracia church in Cartagena, in the Murcia region of Spain, was ...

In a similar vein, Pope Francis’ final days can be viewed as a kind of “holy week.” How he spent the extra time Our Lord granted him (a span that included the Church’s observance of Holy ...

We likewise condemn the egregious treatment of Christians and worshipers during Holy Week and the Saturday Holy Fire service in Jerusalem. As the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said: "These ...

Cyprus is seeing a strong flow of tourist arrivals this spring, with Paphos enjoying robust bookings from key foreign markets and a noticeable uptick in domestic travel over Holy Week. Speaking to ...