Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...

Up to 200 Christians were massacred by Islamic extremists in Nigeria's troubled Benue state last Friday evening, according to ...

In recent decades the U.S. Catholic Church, like many of the nation ... Leo’s background has made him as much an international religious figure as an American one. He has spent much of his ...

Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

Alongside the dirt street in front of a small Catholic chapel ... cellphones taken from the three arrested men. On June 3, Amnesty International encouraged Honduran authorities to ensure that ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty ... from the church in the predominantly Catholic former ...

Bells tolled in Catholic ... Church since John Paul II came in 1981. "The demise of Pope Francis is not only a great loss for the people of Vatican and Catholics, but also for the international ...

The State Administration Council (SAC) prohibits international aid workers ... for security reasons), explaining how the local Catholic Church provides education while dealing with the constant ...

The Roman Catholic ... church's 1.4 billion followers across all seven continents. The most globally representative group of cardinals in history will be weighing such factors as geography ...

Pope Francis was appointed just over a decade ago and came from the Global South, and that was seen as a symbol of where the Catholic Church was ... on the international global order, is one ...

"And I think that's the start. You know, it's an incomplete project." The Catholic Church maintains that only men can be ordained as priests, viewing this not as a cultural tradition but as ...