Among those gathered were religious sisters who serve the poor in the developing nation’s mountainous regions.

As war broke out in Europe Feb. 24, with Russia's early morning attacks on various parts of Ukraine, Catholics in the U.S. joined Pope Francis in prayers for the people of the East European nation ...

Father James Martin responds to the five most common reasons for opposing L.G.B.T.Q. issues that he’s heard from synod ...

This declaration was bitterly opposed by Catholic bishops from the Middle East, who share the anti-Israel feelings of their Moslem neighbors, and by many European conservatives, who argued that ...

Zorba estimated that up to 3,000 foreign Jews found refuge in Albania during World War II. “Only 100 meters from here lived ...

Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican says may include ...

A crowd of an estimated 20,000 people gathered on the field in front of the Vanimo cathedral singing and dancing when Pope ...

Pope Francis arrived in Singapore on Wednesday afternoon from East Timor, where he is expected to focus on inter-faith ...

In keeping with that philosophy, Francis has largely shunned foreign trips to European capitals, preferring instead far-flung communities where Catholics are often a minority. Vanimo, population ...

Pope Francis encouraged Christians in Singapore on Thursday to hold "constructive dialogues" with people of other faiths during the last leg of his Asian-Pacific trip, the longest of his papacy.

In East Timor, a country where 98% of the population is Catholic, Pope Francis was met ... reversing the historical trend of European missionaries coming to Timor. Pope Francis listens to the ...

PORT MORESBY – Pope Francis honored the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he celebrated Mass in Papua New Guinea before heading to a remote part of the South Pacific nation with a ton of ...