The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said that the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid ...

Pope Francis celebrates the First Vespers and Te Deum for the end of the year, in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 31 December 2024. (Photo by EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI /MaxPPP) Seated in a chair at ...

Asia’s youngest country has been waiting to be a member of ASEAN since 2011. The benefits of membership won’t be one-sided, ...

Asia’s youngest country Timor-Leste applied for ASEAN membership in 2011. Some citizens hope it will be granted this year ...

Livability was a key factor in our ranking this year. But a great city to live in is, naturally, a great city to visit. So, along with the thousands of responses from locals around the world ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and the first sitting pontiff to publish his memoirs since the 15th century. Pope Francis' autobiography, Hope, reaches ...

The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” Francis, originally from Argentina and the first ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where other pontiffs have not. Hope ...

President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House said Jan. 11. Biden, the nation's second Catholic ...

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats went down to Starkville on Saturday to play the No. 14 Mississippi State Bulldogs. The Wildcats earned a hard-fought 95-90 victory, but fans were even more ...

President Joe Biden awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pope Francis, a personal marker ... prompted the president to cancel a Vatican visit during his final days in office.

ROME — Pope ... Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark Epiphany. According to the Bible, the feast marks the day that three wise men guided by a star came to visit the ...