Vatican confirms plans still in place for Pope Francis to visit Belgium and Luxembourg despite canceling events Monday ...

Albania is planning to create the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order," a Muslim microstate along the lines of the Vatican ...

Pope Francis cancelled his audiences Monday because of a “slight flu-like state” just days before he is to embark on a trip ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican confirms plans still in place for Pope Francis to visit Belgium and Luxembourg despite canceling events Monday.

Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least 100 people. The Israeli military called ...

Pope Francis called on the world's Catholic cardinals, many of whom live in Rome and lead Vatican offices, to pursue a "zero ...

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children ...

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the killing last week of an environmental activist in Honduras who had protested over mining ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...

After penning a letter to the world’s cardinals asking them to focus on financial reform, urging spending cuts and ...

U.S.-Vatican diplomatic relations extend back to 1788 when George Washington allowed that the Holy See could freely appoint ...