As the ceasefire took hold this weekend, Pope Leo XIV called it “a spark of hope in the Holy Land.” To understand the new ...

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, meets with Pope Leo XIV in the pope's private library during a private audience at the Vatican, Thursday, Sep. 4, 2025. (Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media via AP) ...

Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than five billion people—live in countries where serious violations of religious freedom ...

With controversy already surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's surprise retirement announcement from earlier this week, another scandal is brewing in Vatican City. Vatican officials have long maintained ...

Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon next month on the first foreign trip of his papacy, making a symbolically important gesture to Christians and Muslims on a pilgrimage to two countries th ...

He assembled a network of activists that hid thousands of fugitives, including many escaped Allied prisoners of war ...

The Latin Patriarchate is a Catholic Church diocese whose territory covers Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus. Formed in ...

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Smoke rises following explosions amid the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City as seen from the central Gaza Strip Oct. 6, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters VATICAN CITY (CNS) ...

The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago "was inhuman and indefensible," the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel's two-year-long war on Gaza has had "disastrous and inhuman consequences." "It ...

Pope Leo XIV held a meeting at the Vatican with Bishop Vitalii Kryvytskyi of the Kyiv-Zhytomyr Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine and member of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and ...