Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday prayer ahead of Christmas celebrations, condemning ...

Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day.

Israel's Foreign Ministry slammed Pope Francis's Christmas address, where he labeled Israeli airstrikes in Gaza as "cruelty." ...

The Pope used the occasion to continue Pope John Paul II’s Advent tradition of blessing statues of the child Jesus to be ...

Foreign Ministry calls remarks 'disappointing,' 'disconnected' from reality in latest tensions between Jerusalem and the Holy ...

Rewriting history that Jesus wasn’t a Jewish resident of the Jewish country of Judea but rather a Palestinian man who was ...

The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of a manger. Instead of the ...

Christmas Eve will see the start of the Catholic Jubilee Year 2025 with the theme "Pilgrims of Hope", chosen by Pope Francis to promote peacebuilding in a world threatened by climate change and ...

Pope Francis stepped up his criticism of Israeli counter-terrorism raids in Gaza on Sunday, decrying what he described as “cruelty” for the second time in as many days after Jerusalem accused him of ...

The comments follow a recent controversy over a Nativity scene at the Vatican which featured baby Jesus wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh. Images of Pope Francis inaugurating the scene on Dec. 7 ...

The Pope's got jokes. Because religion isn't drab and dour, because laughter humanises, and without humanity where would we ...