(Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) An estimated 250,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square and beyond to pay their final respects at the funeral Mass for Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88.

The death of Pope Francis last Monday has prompted believers, agnostics and atheists alike to reflect on the role of religion in daily life. Religiosity in the Western world has been waning for ...

ROME — President Donald Trump, a man who cares deeply about where he is placed on a seating chart, seemed pleased to score a plum front-row seat at Pope Francis’s funeral in Vatican City on ...

VATICAN CITY — The conclave to pick the successor to Pope Francis will begin May 7, the Vatican announced Monday, setting the date of the secretive rite inside the Sistine Chapel at a time when ...

For several years when I was a boy, I was the organist at a small Catholic church where I played two and sometimes three Masses a week. The architecture was modern, post-Vatican II, with the organ ...

VATICAN CITY — As pilgrims and world leaders alike prepare to say goodbye to Pope Francis at his funeral Saturday, Rome is racing to get ready. The city is blocking off roads and calling in ...

VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church bid farewell to the first New World pope Saturday in a funeral attended by monarchs, presidents and cardinals but also a different group of guests — an ...

A federal judge said Friday a 2-year-old US citizen was deported with her mother to Honduras. The Trump administration says her mother asked officials to take her with her, documents show.

Well Fremont's a great place to live, we have a lot of jobs, great parks, affordable housing, a lot of things for people to do,' Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said while speaking with Congressman Eric ...

“The Cholistan Canal will originate from the Salwan Headworks, built on a river carrying about 300,000 acre-feet of excess monsoon water from India, which otherwise often causes flooding and dev ...

Sune Engel Rasmussen is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His reporting focuses on European security, including terrorism, transnational organized crime and the shifting ...