The primary rebel force that led the lightning offensive against the regime of President Bashar Assad is the Islamist Hayat ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this ...

The Vatican’s condemnation of Israel reflects a double standard, especially when contrasted with its relative silence on other human rights abuses.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan engaged in intense diplomacy in 2024 for global peace, particularly for the solution of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message ... Rashid Yehya in Teleskaf, Iraq; Evgeniy Maloletka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine; Nick Perry in Boston; and David ...

Pope Francis began his most risky foreign trip on Friday, flying into Iraq amid the tightest security ever seen for a papal visit to appeal to the country’s leaders and people to end militant violence ...

Pope Francis Apostolic Journey to the Republic of Iraq: Meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps in the hall of the Presidential Palace in Baghdad, 5 March 2021.

Cairo called on the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to broaden the scope of their ... The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, condemned the beheadings. "They ...

Pope Francis recalled the witness of persecuted Christians around the world on Thursday as he celebrated the feast of St. Stephen, the Church’s first martyr. In his Angelus address on Dec. 26 ...

On Sunday, the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis highlighted the Family of Nazareth as a model of dialogue and mutual listening while warning against allowing mobile phones to disrupt family ...